Who was born on February 16 and what day is it?
👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇸 USA – National Caregivers Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Day of War Correspondents.
🇺🇬 Uganda – Memorial Day for Archbishop Janani Luvum.
🇰🇵 DPRK – Kim Jong Il’s birthday.
🇱🇹 Lithuania – The day of the foundation of the state.
🇺🇸 USA – Innovation Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1221 – Bukhara was captured by the Mongols.
– 1568 – The Spanish Inquisition sentenced all the inhabitants of the Netherlands to death.
– 1571 – Ivan IV Grozny was one of the first in Russia to receive a military charter.
– 1722 – Peter I issued a decree on the heir to the throne.
– 1854 – the Verny fortification was built (now the city of Almaty).
– 1862 – Northerners win a major victory during the United States Civil War.
– 1904 – The RRS Discovery was freed after a two-year siege.
– 1918 – the state of Lithuania was reorganized.
– 1923 – Howard Carter’s expedition discovered the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
-1934 – the civil war in Austria ended.
– 1948 – American astronomer Gerard Kuiper discovered Miranda, a moon of Uranus.
– 1963 – Syrdarya region was formed.
-1968 – the first rescue service in the USA – 911 – started working in Haileyville (Alabama).
– 1976 – the first KAMAZ car left the assembly line of the Kama Automobile Plant in the USSR.
– 1978 – The first electronic bulletin board – BBS was created.
– 1992 – Uzbekistan became a member of the International Economic Cooperation Organization (IECO).
– 1993 – Mutual diplomatic relations were established between the Republics of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
– 1994 – In Tashkent, the girls of the national team of Uzbekistan became the Asian champion in rhythmic gymnastics.
– 1999 – Several terrorist acts took place in Tashkent.
– 2001 – a terrorist attack occurred in Pristina (Kosovo) – the “Nish Express” bus was blown up.
– 2005 – Kyoto Protocol came into force.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1222 – Nithiren (1282) – Japanese Buddhist prophet, founder of the Nithiren-syu doctrine.
– 1514 – Georg Joachim Rhetik (1574) – German mathematician and astronomer.
– 1698 – Pierre Bouguer (1758) – French scientist, one of the founders of photometry.
– 1831 – Nikolai Leskov (1895) – Russian prose writer.
– 1834 – Ernst Haeckel (1919) – German biologist, professor at the University of Jena (1862 – 1909).
– 1846 – Jabayev Jambul (1945) – Kazakh folk poet and writer.
– 1848 – Octave Mirbeau – (1917) – French writer and playwright.
– 1852 – Charles Russell (1916) – American preacher, founder of the Jehovah’s Witnesses movement.
– 1873 – Radoje Domanović (1908) – Serbian writer, journalist and teacher, known for his satirical short stories.
– 1893 – Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1937) – Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union.
– 1909 – Yevgeny Yavorsky (1971) – People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1952).
– 1920 – Mikhail Schweitzer – Soviet and Russian director, screenwriter, People’s Artist of the USSR.
– 1939 – Czeslaw Nemen (2004) – Polish musician, composer and singer.
– 1941 – Kim Jong Il (2011) – Korean politician and statesman, leader of the DPRK (1994-2011).
– 1964 – Babeto – Brazilian football player, world champion (1994).
– 1975 – Rustam Rahimov is a German amateur boxer originally from Tajikistan.
– 1989 – Elizabeth Chase Olsen – American actress.
– 1995 – Israil Madrimov – winner of the World Boxing Championship.
– 1998 – Carles Perez – Spanish football player.