Who was born on May 16 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – International Day of Peaceful Living Together.
🇺🇳 UN (UNESCO) – International Light Day.
🌎 International Day of Biographers.
🌏 Global Accessibility Awareness Day
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇵🇱 Poland – Day of border guards.
🇲🇾 Malaysia – Teacher’s Day.
🇸🇩 South Sudan – SPLA Day. SPLA – Sudan People’s Liberation Army.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1648 – Bohdan Khmelnytskyi wins a victory over Commonwealth forces near the Yellow Waters.
– 1703 – The city of St. Petersburg was founded.
– 1744 – the death penalty was abolished in the Russian Empire by the decree of Queen Elizaveta Petrovna.
– 1764 – Catherine II opened the Institute for Orderly Girls.
– 1849 – Karl Marx was expelled from Germany.
– 1881 – In Germany, the world’s first electric tram passed through one end of Berlin. The arch and wire model appeared later – in 1890.
– 1901 – Argentina national football team won 3:2 over Uruguay national football team.
– 1919 – Mustafa Kemal left Istanbul for Samsun to start the Turkish War.
– 1926 – The 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the 115th Caliph of Islam died in Vahdettin (Italy).
– 1929 – The first Oscar ceremony was held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
– 1952 – Equal pay for women becomes law in Great Britain.
– 1969 – the Soviet spacecraft “Venus 5” landed on the planet Venus.
– 1975 – Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabi became the first woman to reach the top of Everest.
– 1996 – The Protocol “On establishing diplomatic relations between the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Republic of Venezuela” was signed.
– 2003 – The President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov was awarded the “Andrey Pervozvanny” international award of the “Dialog Svilizatsiy” foundation.
– 2007 – The 60th International Cannes Film Festival began.
– 2009 – The final stage of the Eurovision Song Contest was held in Moscow.
– 2011 – The public game “Terraria” was released.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1718 – Maria Agnesi (1799) – Italian mathematician-philosopher, the first woman professor in the field of mathematics.
– 1763 – Louis Vauclin (1829) – French chemist who discovered chromium and beryllium.
– 1804 – Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1894) – founder of the first kindergarten in the USA.
– 1831 – Edward Hughes (1900) – American physicist, inventor of the microphone.
– 1930 – Nuriddin Shukurov (1995) – literary scholar, doctor of philology, professor.
– 1950 – Johannes George Bednorz – German physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1987).
– 1963 – Fatkhulla Masudov (2020) – actor, honored artist of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
– 1966 – Janet Jackson – American singer, representative of the Jackson dynasty.
– 1965 – Christ Anthony Novoselich – American rock musician.
– 1972 – Andrzej Sebastian Duda – President of Poland (since 2015), Member of the European Parliament.
– 1977 – Lynn Collins – American actress.
– 1977 – Umid Akhmadjonov – President of the National Olympic Committee of Uzbekistan (2018-2019).
– 1981 – Jim Starjess – English actor.
– 1986 – Megan Denise Fox – American actress and model.
– 1993 – Lee Ji Eun (IU) is a South Korean singer, songwriter, model and actress.