Who was born on April 10 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌎 World Home (Remote) Work Day.
🌎 World Jaguar Day.
🌎 World Homeopathy Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇸 USA – Brothers Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Farm Animal Day.
🇨🇦 Canada – International Pink Day.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan – Internal Troops Day.
🇹🇭 Thailand – National Rubber Day.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan – Builders’ Day.
🇮🇸 Iceland – Engineer’s Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1370 – Amir Husayn surrendered the city of Balkh to Amir Temur.
– 1710 – “Statute of Queen Anne” adopted in 1709 in England – the first copyright law in the world came into force.
– 1741 – Battle of Mollwitz.
– 1814 – At the University of Giessen, 13-year-old Karl Witte received his PhD and became the youngest Doctor of Science (so far).
– 1820 – The first English settlers land in Algoa Bay, South Africa.
– 1831 – Battle of Eagan.
– 1841 – The first issue of the newspaper “New York Tribune” was published.
– 1875 – The Canadian police received permission to open a post in western Canada – which later became the city of Calgary.
– 1907 – Pyotr Stolypin presented the land reform project in the Duma.
– 1912 – The liner “Titanic” left the port of Southampton for the first and last time.
– 1922 – The Genoa Conference opens (until May 19).
– 1925 – the city of Saritsyn began to be called Stalingrad (now Volgograd).
– 1937 – Air Canada was founded (until 1964 – Trans-Canada Airlines).
– 1938 – In a plebiscite in Austria, 99.7 percent of the population voted for unification with Germany.
– 1941 – Croatia was declared an independent state in Zagreb occupied by German troops.
– 1944 – During the Odessa operation, the city was destroyed by the German occupation.
– 1972 – The International Convention on the Prohibition of Bacteriological Weapons was signed.
– 1979 – Georgiy Ivanov, the first Bulgarian cosmonaut, flew into the sky.
– 1988 – After 10 years of construction, the 9-kilometer Seto Bridge connecting the islands of Honshu and Shikoku in Japan was opened.
– 2004 – Uzbekistan issued a postage stamp dedicated to Al-Khorazmi.
-2010 – plane crash in Smolensk (Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria Kaczynska and others (97 people) died).
– 2010 – an avalanche in Kamchatka crushed a helicopter with German tourists. 10 out of 18 people died.
– 2014 – UK installs world’s largest weather forecasting supercomputer.
– 2016 – Puttingal temple fire (Paravur, India); More than 110 people died, more than 350 people were injured.
– 2019 – For the first time, a photo of a “black hole” was shown to the world.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1735 – Ivan Kulibin (1818) is a self-taught Russian mechanic.
– 1847 – Joseph Pulitzer (1911) – American publisher and journalist, founder of the prize of the same name.
– 1895 – Vsevolod Rozhdestvensky (1977) – Soviet poet and translator, military correspondent.
– 1887 – Bernardo Ussay (1971) – Argentinian physiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1947).
– 1894 – Abdulla Qadiri (1938) – the founder of the Uzbek national novel, publicist, humorist, linguist and translator.
– 1917 – Robert Woodward (1979) – American organic chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1965).
– 1927 – Marshall Nirenberg (2010) – American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1968).
– 1937 – Bella Akhmadulina (2010) – Soviet and Russian poetess, writer, translator.
– 1952 – Grigory Yavlinsky – Soviet and Russian politician, economist.
– 1952 – Steven Seagal – American actor, screenwriter, producer, director, aikido master.
– 1963 – Doris Leuthard – member of the Swiss Federal Council since 2006, President of the country in 2010 and 2017.
– 1973 – Roberto Carlos da Silva – former Brazilian football player, world champion (2002).
– 1978 – Rustamjon Hamidov (Rustamjon domla) – one of the famous imams of Uzbekistan.
– 1993 – Sophia Carson is an American actress and singer.