Who was born on February 14 and what day is it?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 International book donation day.
🌏 Valentine’s Day.
🌏 World Bonobo Day.
🌏 French birthday.
🌏 Congenital Heart Defects Awareness Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇸 USA – National Donor Day.
🇮🇪 Ireland – No smoking day.
🇺🇸 USA – Oregon and Arizona State Day.
🇰🇵 North Korea – Generalissimo Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Black Literacy Day.
🇱🇧 Lebanon – Rafik Hariri Memorial Day.
🇫🇮 Finland – Friends Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 842 – Birthday of the French language: Louis II of Germany and Charles II take the Oath of Strasbourg in the Romance language (Old French).
– 1009 – First mention of Lithuanian toponym.
– 1718 – Peter I deprived his son Alexei of the rights of the heir to the throne.
– 1834 – a mass uprising of weavers began in Lyon.
– 1836 – 120 people died in the Leman fire.
– 1879 – Saltpeter War: Chilean troops attack Bolivia.
– 1892 – D.I. Ivanovsky discovered viruses as an etiological factor of infection, which laid the foundation for virology.
– 1918 – Gregorian calendar (new style) was introduced in Soviet Russia.
– 1919 – The Charter of the League of Nations was approved.
– 1945 – bombing of Prague by the USA.
– 1946 – ENIAC, the first real electronic computer in the USA, was launched.
-1949 – The first meeting of the Knesset in Israel.
– 1956 – Stalin cult exposed.
– 1961 – Element 103 – Lawrenceium is discovered.
– 1989 – Salman Rushdie was sentenced to death for his novel “Satanic Poems”.
– 1992 – Air defense troops of the country were established as part of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan.
– 1995 – Borland demonstrated the first example of Delphi.
– 2005 – YouTube service was created.
– 2006 – The Islamic State of Waziristan was declared by the Taliban in North Waziristan. Later, the Taliban also occupied South Waziristan.
– 2011- Arab Spring: Uprising started in Bahrain.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1483 – Zahiriddin Muhammad Babur (1530) – a great representative of Uzbek classical literature, poet, historian, statesman, and a skilled general.
– 1869 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1959) – Scottish physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1927).
– 1877 – Edmund Landau (1938) – German mathematician.
– 1928 – Sergey Kapitsa (2012) – Soviet and Russian physicist, educator, TV presenter.
– 1936 – Anna German (1982) – Soviet and Polish pop singer, actress, composer.
– 1939 – Shukrullo Mirsaidov (2012) – Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1990), Vice-President of the Republic of Uzbekistan (1990-1992).
– 1940 – Muqimov Kamil – physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan (2000).
– 1943 – Amon Matjon – national poet of Uzbekistan, tajimon.
– 1945 – Hans-Adam II – current Prince of Liechtenstein (since 1989).
– 1947 – Abdulhashim Mutalov – Prime Minister of Uzbekistan in 1992-1995.
– 1962 – Adham Akhmadboyev – State Adviser to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
– 1972 – Rob Thomas is an American rock artist and songwriter.
– 1974 – Valentina Vessali – Italian fencer, 6-time Olympian, 16-time world champion.
– 1987 – Makka Sagaipova – People’s Artist of the Republic of Chechnya.
– 1988 – Angel Di Maria – Argentine football player, wing midfielder.