Who was born on April 16 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 Charlie Chaplin Day.
🌎 World Voice Day.
🌏 World Semicolon Day.
👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇸 USA, 🇨🇦 Canada – National Health Decisions Day / Advance Care Planning Day.
🇭🇺 Hungary – Holocaust Remembrance Day.
🇩🇰 Denmark – Queen’s birthday.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria – Lawyers’ Day.
🇦🇲 Armenia – Police Day.
🇩🇿 Algeria – Day of Knowledge and Science.
👉 EVENTS:
– mile. Av. 1737 – The day tea was discovered.
– 1607 – The English began to move to Virginia.
– 1705 – Queen Annaprode of England knighted Isaac Newton.
– 1824 – The boundaries of the territories of the Russian Empire in North America were determined.
– 1848 – Serfdom was abolished in the Habsburg Empire.
-1856 – Quebec City was declared the capital of Canada.
– 1871 – Berlin was declared the capital of Germany.
– 1871 – The first constitution of the German Empire was adopted.
– 1877 – Leo Tolstoy finished writing the novel “Anna Karenina”.
– 1898 – the first edition of Maxim Gorky’s works was published.
– 1906 – The laying of an undersea cable between the United States and China is completed.
– 1917 – The First All-Turkistan Muslim Congress started working in Tashkent (until April 23).
– 1922 – Soviet Russia and Germany signed the Treaty of Rapallo.
– 1932 – the first Russian television was produced at the Leningrad Radio Plant.
– 1934 – the honorary title “Hero of the Soviet Union” was established by decree of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR.
– 1945 – Berlin operation begins during World War II.
– 1964 – American pilot Geraldine Mock landed in West Germany and became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe.
– 1966 – “Coca-Cola” went on sale for the first time in Israel.
– 1975 – During the Cambodian civil war, the Khmer Rouge captured the country’s capital, Phnom Penh.
– 1992 – overthrow of Afghan President Mohammad Najibullah.
– 2009 – the anti-terrorist operation in Chechnya was canceled from 00:00.
– 2013 – “Yandex” announced the list of the most searched words of the year.
– 2014 – The Sewol ferry sank off the southwest coast of South Korea, killing 304 people.
– 2019 – The fire extinguishing works in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris were completed.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 363 – Wu-di (422) – founder of Liu Sun Empire, Sun Emperor (420-422).
– 1319 – John II (1364) – King of France (1350-1364), from the Valois dynasty.
– 1786 – Pavel Schilling (1837) – Russian scientist, physicist, orientalist.
1844 – Anatole France (1924) – French writer, winner of the Nobel Prize (1921).
– 1886 – Ernst Telmann (1944) – Leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during the Weimar Republic.
– 1889 – Charlie Chaplin (1977) – an English comic actor, director, composer, was one of the important figures of the silent film era.
– 1917 – Barry Nielsen (2007) – American actor.
– 1921 – Shoislom Shomuhamedov (2007) – Orientalist, Iranologist, Honored Scientist of Uzbekistan (1978).
– 1940 – Margrethe II – current Queen of Denmark (since 1972).
– 1946 – Farrukh Zokirov – a famous Uzbek and Soviet pop singer, composer and actor, since 1976 the leader of the vocal-instrumental group “Yalla”.
– 1947 – Braun Vladimir – opera singer (dramatic baritone), People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1986).
– 1954 – Hubert Alexandre Mainis – the 4th and current Prime Minister of the Bahamas.
– 1963 – Mirza Azizov (2021) – Soviet and Uzbek actor and director, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan.
– 1971 – Selena (killed in 1995) – Mexican-American singer, songwriter, model, actress and designer.
– 1972 – Andreas Dittmer – German canoeist, three-time Olympic champion, 8-time world champion.
– 1992 – Rukidi IV – King of Toro, part of the Kingdom of Uganda (since 1995).
– 1994 – Liliana Mummy is an American film and television actress.