Who was born on March 19 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 World Social Work Day.
🌏 “Read to me” international day.
🌏 International Customer Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇷🇺 Russia, 🇱🇹 Lithuania – Customer Day.
🇫🇮 Finland – Equality Day.
🇵🇱 Poland – Kashubian Unity Day.
🇱🇾 Libya – the day of victory over Gaddafi.
🇮🇹 Italy, 🇪🇸 Spain, 🇵🇹 Portugal – Father’s Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Day of submariners.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1279 – The Sun Empire was destroyed in the Battle of Yamin.
– 1474 – The Law for the Protection of Inventions was passed in Venice, the first law in the world to protect copyright.
– 1697 – the period of “Great Embassy” of Peter I to Europe began.
– 1823 – The First Mexican Empire is dissolved.
– 1831 – the first bank robbery was organized in the USA.
– 1898 – Alexander III Museum was opened.
– 1899 – the first “ambulance” station in Russia was opened in St. Petersburg.
– 1917 – a demonstration of 100,000 people took place in Kiev under the slogan of Free Ukraine.
– 1946 – Martinique, Guadeloupe, Reunion was declared a department of France.
– 1950 – The Stockholm appeal banning nuclear weapons was adopted.
– 1955 – In Madad (Israel), archaeologists found the remains of Herod’s palace.
– 1958 – The first session of the European Parliament began in Strasbourg.
– 1964 – The tunnel through the Alpine pass was put into operation.
– 1970 – the first high-level meeting of the leaders of the GDR and the FRG.
– 1992 – Uzbekistan established diplomatic relations with Poland and New Zealand.
– 1994 – a terrorist act was committed in the Baku subway.
– 1999 – terrorist attacks took place in Vladikavkaz.
– 2003 – US President George Bush announced an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein.
– 2011 – NATO intervention in Libya began.
– 2016 – Terrorist attacks in Istanbul.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1629 – Alexei Mikhailovich (1676) – Tsar of Russia (1645–76), second representative of the Romanov dynasty, son of Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov.
– 1778 – Munis Khorezmi (1829) – poet, historian, translator, calligrapher and educator.
– 1813 – David Livingston (1873) – Scottish tourist, doctor by profession.
– 1832 – German Vambery (1913) – Hungarian orientalist, linguist, traveler and writer.
– 1883 – Norman Havorz (1950) – English organic chemist, member of the Royal Society of London (since 1928), winner of the Nobel Prize (1937).
– 1896 – Nadezhda Kashina (1977) – People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1964).
– 1900 – Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1958) – French physicist, one of the founders and leaders of the International Peace Movement, winner of the Nobel Prize (1935), “For the Preservation of International Peace” (1951).
– 1900 – Salih Mutallibov (1979) – linguist scientist, honored scientist of Uzbekistan (1971).
– 1943 – Mario Molina – Mexican chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1995).
– 1953 – Lenín Boltaire Moreno Garcés – President of Ecuador (since 2017).
– 1954 – Zayniddin Nizomkhojayev – state and public figure, Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Uzbekistan (from February 5, 2021).
– 1955 – Bruce Willis – American film actor, producer, musician.
– 1956 – Yegor Gaydar (2009) – Russian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Russia (1991-1992).
– 1982 – Eduardo Saverin – one of the founders of the Facebook social network.