Who was born on February 15 and what day is it?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 World Anthropology Day.
🌏 World Hippo Day.
🌏 International fans day.
🌏 Global Information Management Day.
🌏 ENIAC Day (First Computer Day)
🌏 International Children’s Cancer Day.
🌏 International Angelman Day.
🌏 Galileo Galileo Day.
🇪🇺 Operation Nurse Day in the European Union.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇸 USA – Susan Anthony Day.
🇸🇬 Singapore – Public Defense Day.
🇨🇦 Canada – Flag Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine, 🇷🇺 Russia, 🇧🇾 Belarus – Day of Remembrance of Internationalists.
🇻🇺 Vanuatu – John Froome Day.
🇷🇸 Serbia – National Day.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan – Freedom Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 438 – The first official set of laws in the Roman Empire – Theodosian Code was adopted.
– 590 – Khusrau II sat on the throne of the Persian state.
– 1045 – The construction of the Sophia Cathedral in Russia began.
– 1565 – the introduction of the oprichnina in Russia was announced.
– 1786 – William Herschel discovered the “Cat’s Eye” planetary nebula.
– 1798 – Napoleon’s general Louis-Alexandre Bertier invades the city of Rome, resulting in the proclamation of the Roman Republic.
– 1804 – Serbian revolution begins.
– 1820 – It was discovered that electricity has a magnetic effect.
– 1835 – The first constitutional law was adopted in modern Serbia.
– 1895 – the first children’s music school in Russia named “Gnesin School of Music Education” was opened in Moscow.
– 1919 – the Grand Drama Theater was opened in Petrograd.
– 1922 – The first session of the International Court of Justice was opened in The Hague.
– 1923 – Greece became the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
– 1933 – An unsuccessful attempt was made on Franklin Roosevelt in Miami.
-1942 – Japan invades Singapore.
– 1965 – The Canadian flag was approved.
– 1969 – An artificial human reproduction experiment was conducted in Cambridge.
– 1973 – Prognoz-3 satellite was launched to study solar flares.
– 1976 – The 1976 Constitution of Cuba was adopted by popular referendum.
– 1989 – the withdrawal of the USSR army from Afghanistan was completed.
– 1994 – the symbol of presidential power in Russia – the Standard of the President of the Russian Federation was officially introduced.
– 2013 – A meteorite fell to the ground in Chelyabinsk (Russia).
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1368 – Sigismund I (1437) – King of Hungary and Croatia (from 1387), King of Germany (from 1410), King of Bohemia (from 1419), Holy Roman Emperor (from 1433).
– 1472 – Pero II di Lorenzo de’ Medici (1503) – 1492-1494 – the current ruler of Florence.
– 1564 – Galileo Galileo (1642) – Italian physicist, astronomer and mechanic, founder of experimental physics.
– 1710 – Louis XV (1774) – King of France (since 1715), representative of the Bourbon dynasty.
– 1797 – Heinrich Steinweg (1871) – Austrian and American piano maker, founder of Steinway & Sons.
– 1820 – Susan Anthony (1906) – American women’s rights activist.
– 1845 – Elihu Ruth (1937) – American jurist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1912).
– 1861 – Charles Edouard Guillaume (1938) – French physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1920).
– 1862 – Savva Morozov (1905) – Russian industrialist, patron.
– 1902 – Ghairatiy (Abdurahim Abdullayev) (1976) – Uzbek writer, People’s Poet of Uzbekistan (1972).
– 1906 – Musa Jalil (1944) – Tatar Soviet poet, Hero of the Soviet Union.
– 1926 – Zunnunova Saida (1977) – poetess, wife of writer Said Ahmad.
– 1926 – Franco Fabrizzi (1995) – Italian theater and film actor.
– 1934 – Niklaus Wirth is a Swiss scientist who developed several programming languages.
– 1934 – Tora Sulayman – People’s Poet of Uzbekistan.
– 1954 – Jaloliddin Mirtojiyev – sculptor, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (2003).
– 1965 – Luqman Borikhan – Uzbek writer.
– 1972 – Jaromir Jagr – Czech ice hockey player, Olympic champion (1998).
– 1988 – Rui Patricio – Portuguese football player, European champion (2016).