Who was born on February 19 and what day is it?

Who was born on February 19 and what day is it?

👉 HOLIDAYS:

🌎 International Kazu Day.
🌏 Anti-Plagiarism Day.

🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:

🇦🇲 Armenia – Book donation day.
🇵🇰 Pakistan – Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri’s birthday.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria – Vasil Levski Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Arabian Horse Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Day of Ornithologists.
🇲🇽 Mexico – Army Day.
🇵🇷 Puerto Rico – Heroes’ Day.
🇨🇦 Canada – Family Day.
🇺🇸 USA, 🇬🇺 Guam – Washington’s birthday (Presidents’ Day).

👉 EVENTS:

– 197 – The Battle of Lugdun begins, in which the usurper Claudius Albinus is defeated by the troops of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus.
-1600 – Huaynaputina volcano appeared in Peru.
– 1726 – According to the decree of Catherine I, the Supreme Secret Council was established.
– 1800 – Napoleon I Bonaparte declares himself First Consul of France.
– 1855 – French mathematician and astronomer Urbain Leverier created the first weather map.
– 1878 – Thomas Edison patented the phonograph.
– 1899 – St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute was established.
– 1905 – The Battle of Mukden begins.
– 1915 – The Dardanelles operation began.
– 1918 – Turkestan Autonomy was overthrown by the Red Army and Dashnak Armenians.
– 1938 – The world’s first floating polar station “Severniy Pole-1” completed its operation.
– 1954 – Crimea passed from Russia to Ukraine.
– 1955 – Moscow – Berlin regular railway connection was established.
– 1957 – diplomatic relations were established between the USSR and Ceylon (since 1972 – Sri Lanka).
– 1959 – The London Agreement was signed between Turkey, Greece and Great Britain, which established the independent Republic of Cyprus.
– 1986 – the first module of the Mir orbital station was launched into space by the USSR.
– 1992 – Diplomatic relations were established between Uzbekistan and the USA.
– 1992 – The decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On the procedure for awarding military and special titles” was adopted.
– 2003 – Il-76MD aircraft of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps crashed near Kerman (Iran). 275 people died.
– 2008 – the first flight of the Su-35BM multipurpose fighter.
– 2008 – Cuban leader Fidel Castro announced his retirement from politics.

👉 BIRTHDAYS:

– 1473 – Nicolaus Copernicus (1543) – Polish astronomer, mathematician and mechanic, founder of the heliocentric theory.
– 1859 – Svante Arrhenius (1927) – Swedish scientist, one of the founders of physical chemistry. Nobel Prize winner (1903).
– 1874 – Nikifor Begichev (1927) – Russian sailor, polar explorer.
– 1914 – Karim Akhmedov – chemist, scientist, honored scientist and technical figure of Uzbekistan (1968).
– 1924 – David Bronstein (2006) – Soviet chess player, grandmaster.
– 1936 – Akhbor Imomkhojaev (2022) – Uzbek sports commentator, football referee and pedagogue, honored youth coach in Uzbekistan.
– 1940 – Saparmurat Niyazov (2006) – President of Turkmenistan (1991-2006).
– 1952 – Mikhail An (1979) – football player, international master of sports (1976).
-1953 – Cristina Kirchner – President of Argentina (2007-2015).
– 1957 – Ray Winstone – English actor.
– 1960 – Prince Andrew – British prince, Duke of York.
– 1962 – Dilorom Toshmuhamedova – director of the “Family” center under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan (since 2018), speaker of the Legislative Chamber of the Supreme Assembly (2007-2015).
– 1964 – Jennifer Dudna – American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (2008).
– 1977 – Gianluca Dzambratto – Italian football player, world champion (2006).
– 1979 – Vitaly Grachev (Vitas) is a famous Russian singer and composer with an unusual timbre.
– 1980 – Ma Li – Chinese table tennis player, three-time Olympic champion.
– 2004 – Millie Bobbi Brown – British and American actress, model.