Who was born on May 15 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – International Family Day.
🌍 International Day of Conscientious Objectors.
🌏 International Huntington’s Disease Awareness Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇵🇾 Paraguay – Independence Day.
🇵🇾 Paraguay – Mother’s Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Family Day.
🇰🇷 South Korea – Teacher’s Day.
🇲🇽 Mexico – Teacher’s Day.
🇱🇹 Colombia – Teacher’s Day.
🇯🇴 Palestine – “Nakba” day.
🇸🇮 Slovenia – Armed Forces Day.
🇮🇷 Iran – Persian Language Day.
🇨🇴 Lithuania – Constituent Assembly Day.
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso – Day of customs and traditions.
🇺🇸 USA – Peace Officers Memorial Day.
🇰🇭 Cambodia – King Norodom Shiamo’s birthday.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1157 – Prince of Suzdal and Kiev, Yuri Dolgoruky, was poisoned at the feast of the Kiev boyar Petrila.
– 1484 – Blagoveshensk Cathedral was founded in the Moscow Kremlin.
– 1525 – Rebel peasants led by Thomas Münzer are defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, the Peasants’ War ends.
– 1618 – German astronomer Johann Kepler discovered the law of planetary motion.
– 1648 – The Armistice of Wesrfalia, which ended the Thirty Years’ War, was signed.
– 1682 – Revolt of archers in Moscow.
– 1756 – England declares war on France: The Seven Years’ War begins.
– 1811 – Paraguay’s independence from Spain was declared.
– 1836 – F. Baley discovered “Bailey’s point”.
– 1922 – Germany gave Upper Silesia to Poland.
– 1930 – American Ellen Church became the world’s first flight attendant.
– 1932 – coup attempt in Japan.
– 1935 – the first line of the Moscow metro was put into operation.
– 1987 – flight of the “Energy” rocket carrier.
– 1988 – withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan began.
– 1989 – The founding meeting in Moscow announced the creation of the World Association of Nuclear Power Plant Operators (WANO).
– 1992 – a coup d’état in Azerbaijan, the overthrow of Ayaz Mutalibov by the political opposition.
– 2009 – Tajik President Emomali Rahman forbade officials to take portraits with him
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1567 – Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (1643) – Italian composer, creator of the first classical examples of the opera genre, one of the organizers of the first public opera theater (1637, Venice).
– 1625 – Carlo Maratta (1713) – Italian painter and architect of the Baroque era.
– 1845 – Ilya Mechnikov (1916) – Russian biologist and immunologist, founder of scientific gerontology, winner of the Nobel Prize (1908).
– 1848 – Viktor Vasnetsov (1926) – Russian artist, master of historical and folk genre painting.
– 1859 – Pierre Curie (1906) – French physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1903).
– 1891 – Mikhail Bulgakov (1940) – famous Russian writer.
– 1904 – Botu (pseudonym; real name Mahmud Hodiyev) (1938) – poet, journalist.
– 1905 – Abraham Zapruder (1970) – an American businessman, filmed the assassination of President J. Kennedy.
– 1910 – Razzaq Hamroyev (1981) – People’s Artist of the USSR and Uzbekistan, actor and director, pedagogue.
– 1912 – Vahid Abdullayev (1985) – literary critic, honored scientist of Uzbekistan (1973).
– 1915 – Paul Samuelson – American economist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1970).
– 1922 – Khivaz Dospanova – (2008) – The only Kazakh female pilot during the Second World War, Hero of Kazakhstan (2004).
– 1926 – Mukhtar Sultanov (1998) – a famous state and public figure of Uzbekistan, one of the first Uzbek generals, first deputy minister of internal affairs of Uzbekistan (1979-1985).
– 1932 – John Glenn is an English film director and editor, author of five James Bond films.
– 1951- Abdusaid Kochimov – poet, writer, journalist who served in the Republic of Uzbekistan.
– 1980 – Slava (real name Anastasia Slanevskaya) – Russian singer, film actress, songwriter.
– 1987 – Sir Andy Murray – British tennis player, 2012 Olympic champion, winner of the US Open-2012 competition.
– 1989 – Sulemdal Sunnjove – Norwegian biathlete, 6-time world champion in relays.