Who was born on April 19 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 International Day of Miracle in Leaves.
🌏 Bicycle Day.
🌎 Smallpox Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇷🇺 Russia – the day Crimea, Taman and Kuban were accepted into the Russian Empire.
🇨🇺 Cuba – Victory Day in Playa Chiron.
🇺🇸 USA – Education and Sharing Day
🇬🇧 Great Britain – Primula Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Dutch-American Friendship Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Printing Industry Day.
🇧🇷 Brazil – Army Day.
🇧🇷 Brazil – Hindu Day.
🇸🇿 Swaziland – King’s birthday.
🇻🇪 Venezuela – Beginning of Independence Movement Day.
🇺🇾 Uruguay – The day thirty-three patriots disembarked.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1012 – Danes torture and kill Archbishop of Canterbury Elphia at Greenwich, who is later canonized as a Catholic saint.
– 1529 – The final division between German Catholics and Protestants takes place at the Reichstag in Speyer.
– 1563 – The first Russian book “Apostle” began to be published.
– 1775 – Battles of Lexington and Concord.
– 1783 – Catherine II’s manifesto on the annexation of Crimea and the Kuban to Russia was published.
– 1810 – Popular uprising in Caracas: the beginning of the war for the independence of Venezuela from Spain.
– 1839 – The Treaty of London recognized Belgium’s independence from the Netherlands.
– 1850 – England and the United States signed an agreement on the joint construction of the Panama Canal (later the United States decided to build the canal itself).
– 1865 – Censorship reform of Alexander II: “Temporary regulations for the press” were adopted.
– 1903 – Expulsion of Jews in the Russian Empire.
– 1933 – The gold standard was abolished in the USA.
– 1935 – Spartak volunteer sports society was established in the USSR.
– 1943 – “Smersh” Counterintelligence Directorate was established.
– 1943 – Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto.
– 1947 – The Indian National Congress party agreed to partition the country into India and Pakistan.
– 1956 – American actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rene III of Monaco.
– 1960 – During the April Revolution in South Korea, mass demonstrations began in Seoul, falsifying presidential elections.
– 1970 – The first car “VAZ-2101” was released.
– 1984 – Australia’s national anthem is officially approved.
– 1995 – Academy of public administration under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan (Academy of State and Society Construction) was established.
-1995 – Terrorist attacks in Oklahoma.
– 1996 – “Kamolat” Foundation of Youth of Uzbekistan was established.
– 2000 – Europe’s largest gold mine was discovered in central Romania.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1795 – Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1876) – German biologist, geologist, naturalist, founder of micropaleontology.
– 1801 – Gustav Theodor Fechner (1887) – German psychologist, founder of psychophysiology and psychophysics.
– 1911 – Matvey Lyubansky (1978) – actor, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1956).
– 1911 – Mirzo Tursunzoda (1977) – Tajik poet and public figure, People’s Poet of Tajikistan (1961).
– 1912 – Glenn Seaborg (1999) – American physicist and chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1951).
– 1917 – Nuriddin Muhitdinov (2008) – Head of the Communist Party of the Uzbekistan SSR in 1955-1957.
– 1918 – Fame (Alimov Gulom) (1993) – People’s Writer of Uzbekistan (1986), Honored Cultural Worker of Uzbekistan (1978).
– 1932 – Jose Exegaray (1916) – Spanish playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize (1904).
– 1949 – Paloma Picasso – French fashion designer, businesswoman, jewelry designer.
– 1957 – Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani – a big Indian businessman, billionaire, manager of Reliance Industries Limited.
– 1959 – Bahadir Sodikov (1980) – Uzbek scholar of literature, poet.
– 1972 – Rivaldo Vitor Borba Ferreira – one of Brazil’s best professional footballers.
– 1978 – James Edward Franco – American actor.
– 1987 – Maria Sharapova – Russian tennis player, Honored Master of Sports.
– 1995 – Leah Smith – American swimmer, Olympic champion, multiple world champion.