Who was born on February 7 and what day is it?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌙 “Night of Miraj” in the Islamic world.
🌏 World Read Aloud Day.
🌏 Global School Games Day.
🌏 Fire extinguisher (ognetushitel) birthday.
🌏 Euler number day (“e” day).
👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇬🇩 Grenada – Independence Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Girls and Women’s Sports Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Rose Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Day of firefighters.
🇯🇵 Japan – Northern Territory Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Business Education Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Masseur Day.
🇮🇪 Ireland – Saint Mel’s Day.
🇮🇳 India – Rose Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1238 – Botukhon captured the city of Vladimir.
– 1568 – Europeans discover the Solomon Islands.
– 1795 – Khojibey port was changed to Odessa.
– 1807 – War of the Fourth Coalition.
– 1845 – William Lloyd breaks the Portland Vase.
– 1847 – Fyodor Inozemsev performed the first successful surgical operation in the world using ether anesthesia.
– 1855 – Diplomatic agreement between Russia and Japan: Treaty of Simod.
– 1863 – American engineer Alon Kay received a patent for the world’s first self-invented fire extinguisher.
– 1907 – More than 3,000 women protested in London demanding women’s suffrage.
– 1920 – Red Army captured Odessa.
– 1942 – Masters massacred Serbs near Bayan Luki. More than 2,300 Serbs were killed.
– 1951 – The South Korean army carried out a massacre of civilians (705 victims).
– 1965 – Vietnam War: bombing of the north of the country.
– 1971 – Women got the right to vote in Switzerland.
1974 – Grenada gained independence.
– 1992 – Diplomatic relations were established between Uzbekistan and the DPRK.
– 1992 – The Maastricht Treaty, which established the European Union, was signed between the member states of the European Community.
– 1998 – The XVIII Winter Olympic Games were opened in Nagano (Japan).
– 1998 – snowboarding – included in the program of the Olympic Games.
– 1999 – The newly reconstructed building of the Russian Academic Drama Theater of Uzbekistan was ceremonially opened.
– 2014 – XXII Winter Olympic Games opened in Sochi (Russia).
– 2018 – Syrian Civil War: Battle of Hasham.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1478 – Thomas More (1535) – English humanist writer, philosopher and political figure.
– 1693 – Anna Ioannovna (1740) – Empress of Russia from the Romanov dynasty (since 1730).
– 1812 – Charles Dickens (1870) – English writer, one of the founders of the critical realism style.
– 1844 – Alexey Fedchenko (1873) – Russian naturalist, scientist who studied Central Asia.
– 1870 – Alfred Adler (1937) – Austrian psychiatrist and psychologist. He founded the direction of individual psychology of psychoanalysis.
– 1885 – Lewis Harry Sinclair (1951) – American writer, winner of the Nobel Prize (1930).
– 1900 – Rafiq Momin (1951) – Uzbek poet, dramatist, pedagogue.
– 1905 – Ulf von Euler (1983) – Swedish physiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1970).
– 1906 – Oleg Antonov (1984) – Soviet aircraft designer, Hero of Socialist Labor.
– 1915 – Galina Pugachenkova (2007) – art critic, archaeologist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan (1984).
– 1922 – Mavlonova Aisha (1991) – opera singer (messo-soprano) and actress, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1974). A follower of Halima Nosirova.
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– 1940 – Talibjon Karimov – actor, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1987).
– 1947 – Nortokhta Qilich (1947) – Uzbek writer.
– 1954 – Dieter Bohlen is a German musician, composer, founder and member of the Modern Talking group.
– 1990 – Dalayla Muhammad – American track and field athlete, Olympic running champion (2016), two-time world champion.
– 1992 – Irina Sharipova – Russian photo model, participated in the “Miss World” competition on behalf of Russia.
– 1998 – Dilnoza Rahmatova – rower-canoeist from Uzbekistan, member of the national team of Uzbekistan.