Who was born on February 12 and what day is it?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 International Day for the Prevention of Violent Extremism.
🌏 Red Hand Day.
🌏 Darwin Day.
🌏 Clean your computer day.
🌏 International Epilepsy Day.
🌏 World Cholangiocarcinoma Day
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇨🇴 Venezuela – Youth Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Georgia Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Marriage Freedom Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Abraham Lincoln’s birthday (national hero who abolished slavery).
🇹🇯 Tajikistan – Day of commemoration of Dushanbe riots in 1990.
🇲🇲 Myanmar – Union Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 881 – Charles III the Fat is crowned Emperor of the West by Pope John VIII.
– 1429 – near the village of Rouvre, the British defeated the French army.
– 1429 – Joan of Arc announced her mission in the city of Vaucouleur.
– 1593 – Battle of Imindj: Kwon Yula defeats 30,000 Japanese troops with 3,000 soldiers.
– 1797 – “God Save the Kaiser”, which became the anthem of the Austrian Empire, was performed for the first time.
– 1810 – Napoleon Bonaparte approved a new criminal code, which was in force until 1994.
– 1818 – Chile’s independence was declared.
-1832 – Ecuador annexed the Galapagos Islands.
– 1864 – Moscow Zoo was opened.
– 1908 – The first auto race around the world started in New York.
– 1912 – Xinhai Revolution: Emperor Pu I abdicated.
– 1925 – Karakalpakstan autonomous region was established.
– 1938 – Germany anschlussed Austria.
– 1941 – Penicillin was first successfully used to treat a patient.
– 1945 – Peru declared war on Germany.
– 1947 – Sikhote-Alin meteorite falls in Primorsky Territory.
– 1955 – the Soviet government decided to create the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
– 1961 – The first automatic interplanetary station Venus-1 was launched.
– 1990 – a clash between the government forces and the opposition in the city of Dushanbe, which started the civil war.
– 1991 – The Autonomous Republic of Crimea was established.
– 1994 – The Republic of Uzbekistan became a member of the Universal Postal Union.
– 1994 – XVII Winter Olympic Games opened in Lillhammer (Norway).
– 2010 – “Oath to the Motherland” statue was opened in Tashkent.
– 2010 – XXI Winter Olympic Games opened in Vancouver (Canada).
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1074 – Conrad (1101) – King of Germany (1087-1098) and Italy (1093-1098).
– 1804 – Lance Emily (1865) – Russian physicist and electrical engineer, Academician of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1830).
– 1809 – Charles Darwin (1882) – English naturalist, author of the modern theory of evolution.
– 1809 – Abraham Lincoln (1865) – the 16th President of the United States (1861-1865), a national hero who abolished slavery in the United States.
– 1877 – Louis Renault (1944) – French industrialist, one of the founders of the Renault company.
– 1879 – Elena Roerich (1955) – Russian philosopher, writer, public figure.
– 1900 – Vasily Chuikov (1982) – Soviet military commander, hero of the Battle of Stalingrad, Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal.
– 1923 – Galiya Izmailova – ballet artist, ballet master. People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1951).
– 1940 – Ziyomuhamedov Sadriddin – Theater and film artist, Honored Artist of Uzbekistan (1990).
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– 1941 – Dennis Sullivan – American mathematician.
– 1947 – Abdullayev Rustam – Composer, Artist of the Republic of Uzbekistan (1997).
– 1949 – Ashraf Ghani – economist and anthropologist, President of Afghanistan (2014-2021).
– 1954 – Philip Simmerman – American programmer, founder of PGP.
– 1959 – Shagayev Erkin – champion of the Olympic Games in water polo (1980).
– 1975 – Regla Torres – Cuban volleyball player, three-time Olympic champion (1992, 1996, 2000), the strongest female volleyball player of the 20th century.
– 1980 – Christina Ricci is an American actress and producer.
– 1991 – Martine Grael – Brazilian yachtsman, two-time Olympic champion.
– 1993 – Jennifer Stone is an American film actress.
– 1993 – Anais Chevalier-Buche – French biathlete, Olympic medalist.