Who was born on April 13 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 International Plant Appreciation Day.
🌏 World Sarcoidosis Awareness Day
🌏 South and Southeast Asian countries – New Year.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇸🇰 Slovakia – Day of wrongfully accused persons.
🇺🇸 USA – Thomas Jefferson’s birthday.
🇷🇺 Russia – Day of sponsors and philanthropists.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Day of employees of the military-industrial complex.
🇪🇨 Ecuador – Teacher’s Day.
🇵🇱 Poland – Katyn Memorial Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1111 – Henry V crowned Holy Roman Empire.
– 1204 – Capture and sack of Constantinople by the participants of the Fourth Crusade.
– 1598 – The Edict of Nantes was signed. The religious wars are over in France.
– 1640 – Meeting of the Short Parliament in England.
– 1829 – The Emancipation Act was passed by the English Parliament, which gave Catholics freedom of religion.
– 1902 – the first trolleybus in Russia was tested in St. Petersburg.
– 1919 – The Bavarian Republic was established (until May 1).
– 1919 – The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea was established.
– 1923 – Wembley Stadium was inaugurated in London.
– 1941 – Signing of the Soviet-Japanese Non-Aggression Pact.
– 1944 – Simferopol was liberated from the German invaders.
– 1953 – The US MRB developed a program to control the human mind.
– 1962 – The famous “Beatles” group was introduced to the general public.
– 1970 – Space accident: Apollo 13 oxygen tank explosion.
– 1975 – coup d’état in Chad.
– 1987 – Portugal gave Macau to China.
– 1990 – TASS report: The NKVD admitted its responsibility for the tragedy in Katyn forest.
– 1994 – “Uzbekinvest” export-import national insurance company was established.
– 2013 – Denpasar Boeing 737 crash: A Lion Air plane skidded off the runway during landing and crashed into the sea, injuring 46 people.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1506 – Pierre Favre (1546) – one of the founders of the Jesuit order.
– 1519 – Catherine de’ Medici (1589) – Queen of France (1547-1559).
– 1743 – Thomas Jefferson (1826) – 3rd President of the USA (1801-09), Secretary of State (1790-93), Vice President (1797-1801), author of the draft of the Declaration of Independence.
– 1892 – Robert Watson-Watt (1973) – Scottish physicist, inventor of the radar device (1935).
– 1906 – Samuel Beckett (1989) – Irish poet, playwright and novelist, representative of modernism, winner of the Nobel Prize (1969).
– 1918 – Lola Abdullayeva – theater artist, Honored Artist of Uzbekistan (1964).
– 1933 – Anvar Kasimov (2020) – leading Soviet, Uzbek orientalist, Indologist, Turkic scholar, honored youth coach in the Republic of Uzbekistan.
– 1936 – Tolqin Tajiyev (2008) – actor, dubbing artist, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan.
– 1939 – Seamus Heaney (2013) – Irish writer, poet and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize (1995).
– 1939 – Paul Sorvino – American film actor.
– 1941 – Michael Stewart Brown – American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (1985).
– 1955 – Irina Khakamada – Russian economist, politician, journalist.
– 1960 – Rudi Föller – a famous German football player and coach.
– 1963 – Garry Kasparov – famous chess master, 13th world champion.
– 1975 – Tatyana Navka – Russian figure skating master, world (2004, 2005) and Olympic (2006) champion.
– 1993 – Hannah Marks is an American film and television actress.
– 2000 – Nancy is a Korean-American singer, actress and host.