Who was born on February 13 and what day is it?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 World Radio Day.
🌏 Day of self-love.
🌏 Movie camera birthday.
🌏 Day of friends on the Internet.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇦🇲 Armenia – Terendez holiday.
🇺🇸 USA – National Tortellini Day
🇵🇭 Philippines – Paranaque Day.
🇲🇲 Myanmar – Children’s Day.
🇶🇦 Qatar – National Sports Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1241 – Mongols invaded Poland.
– 1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for the trial of the Inquisition.
– 1689 – Glorious Revolution in England.
– 1739 – Iranian king Nadirshah attacked India.
– 1784 – Crimea was established within Russia.
– 1842 – Nicholas I signed the decree on the construction of the St. Petersburg-Moscow railway.
– 1858 – British explorers discovered Lake Tanganyika.
– 1859 – the first women’s gymnasium was opened in Moscow.
– 1895 – Lumer brothers received a patent for a motion picture camera.
– 1902 – An earthquake in Shamakhi killed more than three thousand people.
– 1925 – The First All-Uzbek Congress of Soviets was opened in Bukhara in a specially built People’s House. The “Declaration on the establishment of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Uzbekistan” was adopted.
– 1937 – Mata Hari, the legendary female spy, was imprisoned in Paris.
– 1931 – The Revolutionary Council of the USSR decided to produce a thousand Tokarev pistols (TT).
– 1945 – Dresden was bombed.
– 1946 – The US military announced the creation of the first digital computer.
– 1975 – The establishment of the Turkish Federated State of Northern Cyprus was announced.
– 1980 – XIII Winter Olympic Games opened in Lake Placid (USA).
– 1988 – XV Winter Olympic Games were opened in Calgary (Canada).
– 1996 – The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists) launched a “people’s war” against the royal government in Nepal.
– 1997 – Diplomatic relations were established between Uzbekistan and Mali.
– 2001 – The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Population was established.
– 2004 – Acting President of the Republic of Chechnya Zelimkhan Yandarbyev died as a result of an assassination attempt in Doha (Qatar).
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1743 – Sir Joseph Banks (1820) – English naturalist, botanist.
– 1769 – Krylov Ivan (1844) – Russian poet, storyteller, publicist, publisher.
– 1873 – Fyodor Chaliapin (1938) – great opera singer.
– 1883 – Yevgeny Vakhtangov (1922) – Russian and Soviet theater actor, director, pedagogue.
– 1901 – Sayfi Olimov (1984) – actor, director, one of the organizers of the Uzbek theater, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan.
– 1903 – George Simenon (1989) – Belgian writer, master of the detective genre.
– 1910 – William Bradford Shockley (1989) – American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1965).
– 1911 – Hasan Polat (1942) – Uzbek writer.
– 1913 – Badal Nurmuhamedov (1991) – actor, director, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1990).
– 1913 – Khalid bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (1982) – King of Saudi Arabia (1975-1982).
– 1916 – Shamsiddinov Fazliddin (1980) – conductor, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1965) and Karakalpakstan (1973).
– 1947 – Tatyana Tarasova – Soviet and Russian figure skating coach.
– 1954 – Nisa Gasimova – singer, People’s Artist of Azerbaijan.
– 1960 – Pierluigi Collina – Italian football referee.
– 1962 – Mirzagul Sapayeva – actress, singer, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (2002).
– 1963 – Yap Hartsen – an engineer who invented the Bluetooth device.
– 1965 – Yuri Savichev – Soviet football player, Olympic champion (1988), author of the “golden goal”.
– 1975 – Artemiy Lebedev – Russian designer and inventor.
– 1986 – Hamish Bond – New Zealand athlete, three-time Olympic rowing champion, multiple world champion.