Who was born on February 24 and what day is it?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
☪️ Night of Baraat in the Islamic world.
🌏 Lottery birthday.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇹🇭 Thailand – Day of people in the field of art.
🇵🇭 Philippines – Zamboanga Sibugay Day.
🇲🇽 Mexico – Flag Day.
🇸🇪 Sweden – Day of Swedish Finns.
🇮🇳 India – Central Excise Day.
🇪🇪 Estonia – Independence Day.
🇷🇴 Romania, 🇲🇩 Moldova – Dragobete.
🇮🇷 Iran – Day of Engineers.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1466 – The first lottery game was held in Bruges (Belgium).
– 1498 – Historian scholar Mirkhand died.
– 1525 – Battle of Pavia
– 1582 – Pope Gregory XIII decreed the transition to the Gregorian calendar.
– 1821 – Agustin de Iturbide, the future emperor of Mexico, announced the Plan of Iguala.
– 1881 – Russia and China signed the Treaty of Petersburg.
– 1902 – In Great Britain, Dr. Lanchester patented the disc brake project.
– 1918 – “Estonian Declaration of Independence” was announced.
– 1938 – the world’s first man-made synthetic fiber toothbrush was developed.
– 1942 – The Struma ship sank in the Black Sea.
– 1942 – The first broadcast of the “Voice of America” radio station was broadcast.
– 1955 – Turkey and Iraq signed the Baghdad Pact.
– 1994 – The Republic of Uzbekistan became a member of the International Postal Union (1994).
– 1994 – At the 17th Winter Olympics in Lillihammer, Norway, our compatriot Lina Cheryazova became the Olympic champion in freestyle.
– 2006 – a branch of Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosov was established in Tashkent.
– 2008 – Fidel Castro resigned as the head of state of Cuba.
– 2016 – Tara Air’s Viking Air DHC-6 Twin Otter 400 crashes in Nepal, killing 23.
– 2022 – Russia under Vladimir Putin begins an invasion of Ukraine.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1304 – Ibn Battuta, Shamsiddin Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Lawati attanji (1369) is a famous Arab traveler and geographer, historian.
– 1500 – Charles V (1558) – Holy Roman Emperor (1519-56), King of Spain (Carlos I) (1516-56), Prince of the Netherlands (1516-55), King of Sicily (Charles IV) (1516- 56), from the Habsburg dynasty.
– 1744 – Fyodor Ushakov – Russian naval commander, admiral.
– 1786 – Wilhelm Grimm (1859) – one of the Grimm brothers, a German philologist.
– 1886 – Pyotr Lebedev (1912) – Russian physicist, created the first Russian scientific school of physicists.
– 1873 – Caruso Enrico (1921) is an Italian singer (tenor), a great figure of bel canto art, one of the famous representatives of world opera performance.
– 1881 – Rizamat Musamuhamedov (1979) – entrepreneurial gardener, innovator of viticulture practice, honored agronomist in Uzbekistan (1971).
– 1898 – Anatoly Avtonomov (1968) – breeding scientist, honored scientist of Uzbekistan (1944).
– 1932 – Michel Legrand (2009) – French composer, pianist, conductor, singer.
– 1932 – Maya Kristalinskaya (1985) – Soviet pop singer, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
– 1947 – Elena Solovey – Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, People’s Artist of the RSFSR.
– 1955 – Steven Paul Jobs (2011) – American engineer and entrepreneur, Apple Inc. was the founder and director of the corporation.
– 1960 – Ishaq Torayev – actor, director, artist of the Republic of Uzbekistan (1998).
– 1976 – Jean Koum – an Israeli entrepreneur, programmer, developed the world-famous WhatsApp messenger.
– 1977 – Floyd Mayweather is an undefeated American professional boxer.