Who was born on February 17 and what day is it?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 Global Tourism Sustainability Day.
🌏 World Pangolin Day.
🌏 World Human Spirit Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇮🇹 Italy, 🇵🇱 Poland – National Cat Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Cabbage Day.
🇱🇧 Libya – Revolution Day.
🇽🇰 Kosovo – Independence Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1370 – Battle of Rudau.
– 1600 – Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake in Rome.
– 1720 – The Treaty of The Hague is signed between Spain and the Quadruple Alliance, ending the War of the Quadruple Alliance.
– 1776 – The first public lighting by natural gas in the United States began in the city of Baltimore.
– 1814 – Napoleon I defeated the Russian army under the command of Count Palen in the Battle of Morman.
– 1852 – The Hermitage was opened to the public.
– 1854 – Great Britain recognized the independence of the Orange Republic.
– 1855 – Crimean War: Russian troops launch an unsuccessful attack on Yevpatoria.
– 1859 – During the Cochin campaign, after a two-day siege, French-Spanish forces capture Saigon.
– 1863 – The International Committee of the Red Cross was established in Geneva.
– 1878 – the first telephone network of 18 telephones was launched in San Francisco, USA.
– 1880 – the fifth failed assassination attempt on Alexander II.
– 1938 – Scotsman John Baird introduced color television to the public in London.
– 1947 – “Voice of America” radio station began broadcasting in Russian.
– 1956 – Clare D’Assisi is described as a television legend.
– 1959 – The first weather monitoring satellite “Vankard-2” was launched.
– 1972 – The British Parliament voted to join the European Common Market.
– 1979 – The Sino-Vietnamese War began.
– 1983 – “birthday” of Ada programming language.
– 1993 – Russian Gazprom Joint Stock Company was established.
– 1996 – 108 people were killed and hundreds injured as a result of an 8.2-magnitude earthquake in the Irian Jaya region of Indonesia.
– 2008 – Kosova declared independence from Serbia.
– 2011 – Protests began in Libya against the authority of Muammar Qazzafi, the leader of the Libyan revolution and the head of the Jamahiriya.
– 2011 – Al-Khalifa security forces in Bahrain forcibly disperse protesters gathered in Lu’lua Square. 4 people died and 250 people were injured in this incident.
– 2012 – German President Christian Wolff resigns due to involvement in a financial scandal before taking office.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1653 – Corelli Arcangelo (1713) – Italian violinist, composer, conductor, pedagogue.
– 1723 – Tobias Mayer (1762) – German cartographer and astronomer.
– 1807 – Longfellow Henry Wadsworth (1882) – American poet, translator.
– 1836 – Gustavo Adolfo Becker (1870) – famous Spanish romantic writer.
– 1854 – Najafbek Vazirov (1926) – Azerbaijani playwright, publicist, public figure. One of the founders of Azerbaijan modern theater.
– 1867 – Peter Schmidt (1906) – Russian naval officer, revolutionary.
– 1888 – Otto Stern (1969) – German physicist, the first in the world to measure the speed of gas molecules (1920), winner of the Nobel Prize (1943).
– 1906 – Agnia Barto (1981) – Russian writer, author of poems for children.
– 1924 – Gevorg Vartanyan – Soviet and Armenian intelligence officer, Hero of the Soviet Union.
– 1928 – Anvar Azamkhozhayev (1994) – legal scientist, honored scientist of Uzbekistan (1978).
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– 1954 – Mirtojiyev Ravshan (2015) – People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (2003), honored artist of Uzbekistan.
– 1955 – Mo Yan – Chinese writer, winner of the Nobel Prize (2012).
– 1963 – Michael Jordan – American basketball player.
– 1967 – Yevgeny Grishkovets – Russian writer, actor, musician, director.
– 1991- Bonnie Wright is a British actress.