Who was born on March 13 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 Africa Scout Day.
👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇬🇧 Great Britain – No Smoking Day.
🇹🇭 Thailand – Elephant Day.
🇱🇷 Liberia – Decoration Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Coconut Cake Day.
🇬🇩 Grenada – Revolution Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1656 – Jews were forbidden to build synagogues in New Amsterdam (now New York).
– 1781 – British astronomer William Herschel discovered Uranus.
– 1845 – Mendelssohn-Bartholdi’s Violin Concerto in E minor was performed for the first time.
– 1852 – The NY Lantern Weekly published the first picture of Uncle Sam.
– 1869 – D. Mendeleev completed his Periodic Table.
– 1877 – The earphone was patented.
– 1881 – Russian Emperor Alexander II was assassinated.
– 1884 – Siege of Khartoum.
– 1917 – the first issue of “Izvestia” newspaper was published.
– 1921 – Mongolia declared its independence.
– 1925 – The teaching of evolution is banned in Tennessee.
– 1938 – Russian language was introduced as a compulsory subject for study in all schools in the USSR.
-1943 – The Holocaust: The Krakow Ghetto Massacre.
– 1954 – The State Security Committee of the USSR (KGB) was established.
– 1974 – Charles de Gaulle Airport was opened in Paris.
– 1988 – The longest underwater tunnel – Seikan was opened (Honsyu-Hokkaido 53.85 km).
– 1995 – Lars von Trier created the sensational show “Purity Control”.
– 1996 – Massacre at Dunblane Primary School in Great Britain.
– 1997 – A supernatural fire appeared on TV.
– 2004 – The first DARPA Grand Challenge robot competition was held.
– 2004 – Opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti said goodbye to the audience on the stage of “Metropolitan Opera”.
– 2013 – Francis was elected as the 266th Pope.
– 2014 – Roskomnadzor carried out the first public pre-trial blocking of websites.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1720 – Charles Bonnet (1793) – a Swiss naturalist and philosopher who discovered the phenomenon of parthenogenesis.
– 1733 – Joseph Priestley (1804) – English clergyman, philosopher, chemist, discoverer of oxygen and ammonia.
– 1741 – Joseph II (1790) – King of Germany (since 1764), Holy Roman Emperor (since 1765).
– 1855 – Percival Lovell (1916) – American astronomer, mathematician, diplomat and businessman.
– 1888 – Anton Makarenko – (1939) – Soviet pedagogue and writer.
– 1899 – John Van Fleck (1980) – American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1977).
– 1900 – Seferis Giorgos (1971) – Greek poet, winner of the Nobel Prize (1963).
– 1907 – Mircea Eliade (1986) – Romanian writer, historian of religions.
– 1910 – Irina Bugrimova (2001) – Soviet circus artist, the first female animal trainer in the USSR.
– 1911 – Ronald Hubbard (1986) – American science fiction writer and philosopher.
– 1913 – Sergey Mikhalkov (2009) – Soviet poet, dramatist, storyteller, author of anthems of the USSR and Russia.
– 1922 – David Kugultinov (2006) – Soviet and Kalmyk poet, journalist, military correspondent.
– 1925 – John Tate (2019) – American mathematician.
– 1926 – Doğan Avcıoğlu (1983) – Turkish journalist, writer, thinker and politician.
– 1942 – John Scatman (1999) – American jazz musician and poet.
– 1944 – Igor Kio (2006) – Soviet circus artist, illusionist.
– 1951 – Irina Alfyorova – theater and film actress, People’s Artist of Russia.
– 1992 – Kaya Rose Scodelario-Davis is an English actress.
– 1993 – Simen Hegstad Krueger – Norwegian skier, two-time Olympic champion.
– 1995 – Anna Vyakhireva – Russian handball player, Olympic champion (2016).
– 1995 – Mikaela Shiffrin – American alpine skier, two-time Olympic champion, multiple world champion.