Who was born on May 14 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 International Dylan Thomas Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇵🇾 Paraguay – Independence Day.
🇨🇱 Chile – Engineers Day.
🇱🇷 Liberia – National Unity Day.
🇹🇭 Thailand – Thai Buffalo Conservation Day.
🇰🇭 Cambodia – King Norodom Shiamo’s birthday.
🇲🇼 Malawi – Kamuzu Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1147 – Conrad and the German Crusaders leave Regensburg during the 2nd Crusade.
– 1607 – the English founded the first permanent settlement in America – Jamestown.
– 1796 – Edward Jenner used the first smallpox vaccine.
– 1835 – Pushkin’s “The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish” was published.
– 1862 – Swiss watchmaker Adolph Nicol received a patent for the invention of the chronograph.
– 1853 – A patent for the invention of condensed milk was granted in the United States.
– 1869 – The city of Oktoba was founded.
– 1872 – German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck announces the Kulturkampf campaign to fight Catholics.
– 1878 – The name “Vaseline” was patented as a trademark.
– 1900 – The II Olympic Games began in Paris.
– 1904 – III Summer Olympic Games started in St. Louis, USA.
– 1917 – The 1st All-Russian Muslim Congress was opened in Moscow.
– 1927 – The Mexican Football Federation was founded.
– 1939 – Peruvian Lina Medina became the youngest confirmed mother in the history of medicine at the age of five.
– 1948 – David Ben Gurion announced Israel’s declaration of independence.
– 1954 – In The Hague, UN member states adopted the “Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in Time of Armed Conflict”.
– 1955 – Warsaw Pact Organization was established.
– 1962 – Marriage of King Juan Carlos of Spain and Queen Sofia of Greece in Athens.
– 1963 – Kuwait became a member of the UN.
– 1993 – Lithuania, Slovenia and Estonia joined the European Union.
-1993 – the CIS economic union was established.
– 2007 – “Shrek-3” cartoon premiered on big screens.
– 2008 – “Zenit” football club won the UEFA Cup.
– 2009 – The “Herschel” telescope, named after the British astronomer William Herschel, was put into orbit.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1265 – Dante Alighieri (1321) – a great representative of Italian literature, poet.
– 1316 – Charles IV (1378) – German king, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1347-1378).
– 1553 – Marguerite de Valois (1615) – French princess, known as Queen Margo.
– 1771 – Robert Owen (1858) – English socialist utopian.
– 1838 – Wilhelm Steinis (1900) – German chess player, the first world chess champion.
– 1905 – Uygun – People’s Poet of Uzbekistan, Honored Artist of Uzbekistan, Playwright.
– 1922 – Frano Tudjman (1999) – President of Croatia in 1990-1999.
– 1942 – Edward Rtveladze – archaeologist-historian scientist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan (1995), doctor of historical sciences (1989), professor (1992).
– 1943 – Brother Abduraimov – football player, striker of “Pakhtakor” (Tashkent) football team (1960–68, 1970–74), sports master (1962), “Honored sports master of the Republic of Uzbekistan” (1994) .
– 1944 – Walton Lucas is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and businessman.
– 1946 – Rahmon Muhammadiyev – specialist in eye diseases, Hero of Uzbekistan (2001).
– 1952 – Robert Zemeckis – director of “Back to the Future”, “Forest Gump” and many other films.
– 1969 – Catherine Alice Blanchett – Australian film actress and theater director.
– 1984 – Mark Zuckerberg is the founder and CEO of the Facebook social network.
– 1994 – Marquinos (real name Marcos Aoas Correa) – Brazilian football player, Olympic champion (2016).