Who was born on May 13 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌎 International Hummus Day.
🌏 World Cocktail Day.
👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇷🇺 Russia – Black Sea Fleet Day.
🇹🇻 Tuvalu – Good News Day.
🇼🇸 Samoa, 🇹🇰 Tokelau – Mother’s Day.
🇫🇯 Fiji – Girmit Day.
🇫🇯 Fiji – Rotuma Day
🇰🇭 Cambodia – King Norodom Shiamo’s birthday.
🇺🇸 USA – National Apple Pie Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1501 – The journey of the expedition led by Amerigo Vespucci to the West began.
– 1568 – The Battle of Langside took place.
– 1696 – The troops of the Sin Empire defeated Galdan-Boshogtu in the Battle of Terelj.
– 1754 – the first state bank in Russia was established by decree of Elizaveta Petrovna.
– 1830 – Ecuador secedes from Greater Colombia and declares itself a Republic.
– 1846 – The US officially declares war on Mexico.
– 1888 – Abolition of slavery in Brazil.
– 1895 – The Chilean Football Federation was founded.
– 1927 – “Dinamo Kyiv” football club was established in Kyiv.
– 1927 – Financial and economic market crisis occurred in Germany (“Black Friday”).
– 1930 – the last marsupial was killed.
-1950 – “Formula-1” championship was held in England.
– 1981 – Pope John Paul II was assassinated.
– 1991 – “Apple” corporation launched “Macintosh System 7”.
– 1993 – the first International Symposium on “Principles of Market Economy Development” was held in Tashkent.
– 1995 – 60th anniversary celebrations of the city were held in Chirchik.
– 2003 – The 100th anniversary of the famous Uzbek writer Gafur Ghulam was widely celebrated and the official opening ceremony of the statue of the poet was held in Tashkent.
– 2005 – 187 people died as a result of bloody events in Andijan.
– 2014 – Mine explosion in Soma. 282 people died.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1221 – Alexander Nevsky (1263) – Prince of Novgorod, Grand Duke of Vladimir and Kiev, Russian general.
– 1750 – Lorenzo Mascheroni (1800) – Italian mathematician and poet.
– 1767 – Joao VI (1826) – King of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarve (1816-1826).
– 1840 – Alphonse Dode (1897) – French writer.
– 1857 – Ronald Ross (1932) – British bacteriologist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1902).
– 1882 – Georges Braque (1963) – French artist, a major representative of Cubism.
– 1891 – Sir Frank Beaurepaire (1956) – Australian swimmer and politician, 6-time Olympic medalist, mayor of Melbourne.
– 1893 – Henry Murray (1988) – American psychologist-scientist.
– 1938 – Masharip Guvakov (2002) – agricultural innovator, Hero of Uzbekistan (1997).
– 1942 – Vladimir Jonibekov – Soviet flying cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
– 1950 – Steveland Hardaway Morris – American singer, songwriter and musician.
– 1972 – Stefan Aarstol – an American Internet entrepreneur.
– 1984 – Kabuljon Akhmedov – Uzbek media manager. Advisor to the Director of the Youth Affairs Agency of Uzbekistan (former Youth Union of Uzbekistan) on State Language Issues (since 2020).
– 1986 – Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson – English movie star, model, and musician.
– 1986 – Alexander Rybak is a Norwegian singer, the absolute winner of Eurovision in 2009.
– 1993 – Romelu Lukaku – Belgian national team striker.
– 1993 – Debbie Ryan is an American actress and singer.