Who was born on April 12 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 World Aviation and Cosmonautics Day.
🇺🇳 The day of the flight of humanity into space
🌏 International Day of Street (Homeless) Children.
🌏 World Human Rights Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇧🇴 Bolivia – Children’s Day.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan – Science Day.
🇱🇷 Liberia – National Salvation Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Day of Space and Rocket Industry Workers.
🇰🇮 Kiribati – National Health Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 240 – Persian emperor Ardashir Papakan declared his son Shapur as the ruler.
– 467 – Procopius Anthemius became emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
– 1204 – The Crusades: Siege of Constantinople.
– 1633 – Galileo Galilei was prosecuted in Rome.
– 1796 – 27-year-old Napoleon Bonaparte wins his first major victory at the Battle of Montenotte.
– 1815 – Around 10,000 people died immediately and 80,000 later (as a result of the tsunami and famine) during the eruption of the Tambora volcano (starting on the 5th and peaking on the 10th of April).
– 1861 – Alexander II decided to establish a hospital for the working population in St. Petersburg.
– 1861 – Civil war began in the USA.
– 1903 – A bus powered by an internal combustion engine began to run in London.
– 1919 – Saturday was held for the first time in Russia.
– 1927 – Chiang Kai-shek seizes power in Nanjing and Shanghai.
– 1943 – Nantes football club of France was founded.
– 1945 – Franklin Roosevelt, the 32nd president of America, passed away.
– 1961 – Yuri Gagarin was the first in the world to fly into space in the Vostok ship.
– 1980 – Colonel Samuel Doe executed a military coup in Liberia and killed the country’s president, William Tolbert.
-1981 – “STS-1” spacecraft was launched into space.
– 1985 – the millionth copy of the “Volga” GAZ-24 car left the factory.
– 1992 – “Euro-Disneyland” was opened near Paris.
– 1995 – “Yahoo!” catalog was launched and quickly became one of the most popular in the world.
– 2002 – Alisher Navoi library was granted the status of “National”.
– 2014 – “UZ” domain was established.
– 2014 – a confrontation began in Slavyansk, which became the first battle of the war in Donbass.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1801 – Joseph Lanner (1843) – Austrian composer, conductor and violinist, one of the founders of the Viennese waltz.
– 1812 – Budagov Lazar (1878) – Turkicologist, compiled the two-volume “Comparative Dictionary of Turkic Languages” (1869-1871).
– 1823 – Alexander Ostrovsky (1886) – Russian playwright.
– 1848 – Nikolay Veselovsky (1918) – Russian archaeologist and orientalist, studied the history and archeology of Turkestan.
1839 – Nikolai Przhevalsky (1888) – Russian geographer, who studied Central Asia.
– 1850 – Nikolai Golitsyn (1925) – Russian statesman.
– 1884 – Otto Meyerhoff (1951) – German biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1922).
– 1903 – Jan Tinbergen (1994) – Dutch economist, one of the representatives of modern mathematical economics, winner of the Nobel Prize (1969).
– 1941 – Bobby Moore is a famous English football player.
– 1942 – Jacob Zuma – President of the Republic of South Africa (2009-2018).
– 1947 – Sherali Jorayev – a famous Uzbek singer, composer, poet, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1987) and Tajikistan (2018).
– 1949 – Murad Muhammad Dost – a famous Uzbek writer.
– 1961 – Lisa Gerrard – Australian musician.
– 1979 – Claire Danes – American actress.