Who was born on April 18 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌎 International Day of Monuments and Landmarks.
🌎 World Radio Amateur Day.
🌏 International Day of Jugglers.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan – Day of Housing and Communal Service Employees.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe – Independence Day.
🇦🇲 Armenia – Day of Scouts.
🇵🇱 Poland – Coma Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Adult Autism Awareness Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Day of Historical and Cultural Monuments.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – the day of the establishment of the Red Cross Society.
🇯🇵 Japan – Invention Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Day of Military Glory.
🇮🇷 Iran – Army Day.
🇻🇳 Vietnam – Hung Kings Memorial Day.
🇩🇰 Denmark – Day of the Battle of Dybbyl.
👉 EVENTS:
– 796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is assassinated.
– 1521 – Martin Luther’s trial begins at the Congress of Worms.
– 1669 – Babur ruler Aurangzeb orders all Hindu temples to be razed to the ground.
– 1689 – Boston Rebellion.
– 1738 – The Royal Academy of History was established in Madrid by decree of King Philip V.
– 1775 – The struggle for the independence of the United States began.
– 1791 – The British Parliament abandoned the ban on slavery in the African colonies.
– 1793 – First newspapers published in Upper Canada.
– 1846 – American Royal House received a patent for telegraph apparatus.
– 1853 – The first railway in Asia was launched. (Bombay-Thanna 36 km).
– 1881 – The Natural History Museum was opened in London.
– 1902 – Dactyloscopy was used for the first time in Denmark to detect crime.
– 1906 – In the history of the USA, a strong earthquake occurred in San Francisco.
– 1909 – Pope Pius X canonized Joan of Arc.
– 1923 – A constitution was promulgated in Egypt.
– 1923 – “Dinamo” sports society was founded.
– 1924 – regular bus service was launched in Moscow.
– 1925 – The International Union of Radio Amateurs was established.
– 1927 – Chan Kaishi established the “National Government” in Nanjing.
– 1946 – The League of Nations disbanded, handing over all powers to the United Nations.
– 1949 – Republic of Ireland was announced in Dublin.
– 1951 – an international agreement on the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community was signed.
– 1961 – The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations was signed.
– 1980 – Great Britain recognized the independence of Zimbabwe.
– 1988 – The US Navy conducted a military operation against Iran (“Beshiktervatar”).
– 2013 – the day his underwater shop in Dubai started working.
– 2018 – King Mswati III of Swaziland announced that the country would change its name to Eswatini.
– 2022 – Russian invasion of Ukraine: Battle for Donbass begins.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1590 – Ahmed I (1617) – ruler of the Ottoman Empire (1603-1617).
– 1772 – David Ricardo (1823) – English economist, classic of political economy.
– 1839 – Henry Kendall (1882) – poet named “Australia’s National Poet”.
– 1907 – Bulatov Mitkhat – memory, researcher, honored architect of Uzbekistan (1970).
– 1907 – Lars Alfors (1996) – Finnish mathematician.
– 1917 – Georgy Vitsin (2001) – famous comic actor, People’s Artist of the USSR.
– 1928 – Mikio Sato – Japanese mathematician.
– 1929 – Galina Brezhneva (1998) – General Secretary of the Central Committee of the USSR L.I. Brezhnev’s daughter
– 1930 – Nathan Aidelman – Soviet writer, historian, literary critic.
– 1937 – Svetlana Nemolyaeva – Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, People’s Artist of the RSFSR.
– 1939 – Bushui Anatoly – linguist, scientist of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2001).
– 1940 – Joseph Leonard Goldstein – American geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1985).
– 1940 – Eduard Khanok – Soviet and Belarusian musician and composer, People’s Artist of Belarus.
– 1949 – Charles Fefferman – American mathematician.
– 1970 – Sa’uddin Rafiq al-Hariri – Lebanese billionaire and politician, Prime Minister of Lebanon (2009-2011, 2016-2020).
– 1987 – Rosie Huntington-Whiteley – British supermodel.
– 1996 – Danil Dubov – Russian chess player, grandmaster, world rapid chess champion (2018).