Who was born on May 11 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 World Fair Trade Day.
🌏 World Migratory Bird Day.
🌎 World Belly Dance Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇳🇱 Netherlands – National Bicycle Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Minnesota State Day.
🇳🇱 Netherlands – National Mills Day.
🇲🇳 Mongolia – Arbor Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – National Forest Day.
🇮🇩 Indonesia – Military Police Day.
🇮🇳 India – Technology Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 868 – “Diamond Sutra” by Chinese Wang Tze was published. This is the first recorded printed document with a definite date.
– 1818 – Bessarabia province was established within Russia.
– 1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi’s “thousand” descends on Sicily.
– 1867 – The treaty on the status of Luxembourg was signed in London.
– 1916 – Albert Einstein announced the theory of relativity.
– 1927 – American Academy of Motion Picture Arts was founded.
– 1928 – The world’s first regular television broadcast began in New York.
– 1939 – the Khalkhin-Khol dispute arose.
– 1949 – Israel became a member of the UN.
– 1949 – The Kingdom of Siam began to be called Thailand.
– 1955 – The European Council for Peace and Security in Europe of the representatives of 8 European socialist countries started working in Warsaw. They agreed on the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (Warsaw Treaty).
– 1996 – A conference on “The Great Temur, Nature and Man” was held in Shahrisabz.
– 1997 – “Deep Blue” computer defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov.
-2003 – “Salyera” was stolen from the museum in Vienna.
– 2009 – President of the Republic of Korea Lee Myung-bak came to Uzbekistan on an official visit.
– 2016 – 103 people were killed in an ISIS bombing in Baghdad.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 482 – Justinian I (565) – Byzantine emperor (527-565).
– 1720 – Karl Friedrich von Munchausen (1797) – a famous German baron, a brave hero.
– 1854 – Otmar Mergenthaler (1899) – inventor of the linotype printing press.
– 1864 – Ethel Lilian Voynich (1960) – English writer, translator and composer.
– 1892 – Margaret Rutherford (1972) – English film and theater actress.
– 1894 – Martha Graham (1991) – American dancer and choreographer, one of the founders of modern dance.
– 1904 – Salvador Dali (1989) – Spanish artist, one of the great painters of the 20th century.
– 1916 – Camilo Jose Sela (2002) – Spanish writer, winner of the Nobel Prize (1989).
– 1924 – Anthony Huish – English astronomer, winner of the Nobel Prize (1974).
– 1918 – Richard Phillips Feynman (1988) – American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1965).
– 1946 – Tesha Mominov – People’s Artist of the Republic of Uzbekistan, actor.
– 1947 – Yuri Syomin – a famous Russian football coach.
– 1956 – Gaybulla Khojiyev – meritorious artist, actor in the Republic of Uzbekistan.
– 1984 – Andreas Iniesta – Spanish football player, world champion (2010).
– 2001 – Malika Tagmatova – Uzbek academic rowing athlete.