Who was born on April 17 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌎 World Hemophilia Day.
🌎 International Haiku Poetry Day.
🌎 International Bat Appreciation Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇸🇾 Syria – Independence Day.
🇨🇦 Canada – National Canadian Film Day.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan – Day of Fire Safety Service.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan – Day of Migration Service Employees.
🇷🇺 Russia – Day of Veterans of Internal Affairs and Internal Troops.
🇦🇸 American Samoa – Flag Day.
🇬🇦 Gabon – Women’s Day.
🇮🇶 Iraq – Food and Agriculture Organization Day.
🇸🇾 Syria – Evacuation Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1492 – Christopher Columbus signed an agreement with Spain to open a new route to India.
– 1521 – Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church for not renouncing his heresy.
– 1555 – Cosimo I captures Siena after a 15-month siege and annexes it to Tuscany.
– 1790 – American statesman, scientist, one of the founders of America Benjamin Franklin passed away.
– 1824 – The boundaries of the territories of the Russian Empire in North America were determined.
– 1831 – The Battle of Wronovo took place during the Polish Uprising of 1830-1831.
– 1839 – After the dissolution of the Federation of Central American Republics, the State of Guatemala was founded.
– 1856 – Quebec City was declared the capital of Canada.
– 1861 – Virginia decides to secede from the United States.
– 1875 – 19-year-old Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain invented the game of snooker.
– 1877 – L. N. Tolstoy finished writing the novel “Anna Karenina”.
– 1895 – The Sino-Japanese War ended with the conclusion of the Treaty of Shimonoseki.
– 1924 – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio was founded.
– 1941 – Engineer Igor Sikorsky showed the first amphibious helicopter to the public. During the Second World War – 1941 – the act of surrender of the Yugoslav army was signed.
– 1946 – France recognized the independence of Syria.
– 1969 – The voting age in Great Britain is lowered from 21 to 18.
– 1970 – The Apollo 13 crew returned safely to Earth.
– 1975 – During the Cambodian civil war, the Khmer Rouge captured the country’s capital, Phnom Penh.
– 1980 – Southern Rhodesia changed its name to Zimbabwe.
– 1982 – Queen Elizabeth II of England recognized Canada’s new constitutional law and declared it fully independent.
– 1989 – “Solidarity” independent trade union was legalized in Poland.
– 1992 – Russia was given two official names – “Russian Federation” and “Russia”.
– 2021 – Funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1403 – Ali Kushchi (Mawlano Alauddin Ali ibn Muhammad Kushchi Samarkandi) (1474) – a mathematician and astronomer who performed scientific activities in the 15th century, a student of Mirzo Ulugbek.
– 1598 – Giovanni Battista Rizzoli (1671) – Italian astronomer and theologian, one of the creators of the lunar map.
– 1745 – Semyon Shchedrin (1804) – Russian painter, landscape master.
– 1812 – Anatoly Demidov (1870) – Russian and French philanthropist, tourist, businessman.
– 1820 – Alexander Cartwright (1892) – American sportsman, developed the rules of baseball.
– 1837 – John Perpont Morgan (1913) – American financier, industrialist, founder of General Electric.
– 1855 – Semyon Vengerov (1920) – Russian literary critic, critic, editor, bibliographer.
– 1916 – Elenio Herrera (1997) – a great football coach.
– 1929 – James Last (2015) – German composer.
– 1946 – Georg Kochler (1995) – German biologist and immunologist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1984).
– 1959 – Sean Bean – British actor.
– 1968 – Valeria – Russian pop singer, People’s Artist of Russia.
– 1974 – Victoria Beckham (Adams) – singer, member of the Spice Girls group, songwriter, dancer, model, actress, designer.
– 1985 – Takuya Honda – Japanese football player.