Who was born on April 2 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – World Autism Awareness Day.
🌏 International Children’s Book Day.
🌏 International Fact-Checking Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇩🇰 Denmark – Copenhagen Battle Day.
🇹🇭 Thailand – Ancient Monuments Protection Day.
🇧🇾 Belarus, 🇷🇺 Russia – Day of unity of the peoples of Russia and Belarus.
🇮🇷 Iran – Nature Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Sassiqkuzan Day.
🇦🇷 Argentina – Malvinas Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1718 – Peter I established the Secret Chancellery in the Russian Empire to investigate particularly important state crimes.
– 1769 – during the Russian-Turkish war, Russian troops recaptured the city of Taganrog from the Turks.
– 1774 – Pugachyov’s army suffered its first major defeat during the peasant uprising.
– 1792 – The value of coins was established in the US monetary system.
– 1801 – Admiral Nelson wins the Battle of Copenhagen.
– 1810 – Napoleon I married Maria Louise.
– 1831 – Alexis de Touqueville sailed from France to the United States.
– 1879 – Battle of Fatehabad (Second Anglo-Afghan War).
– 1906 – elections to the State Duma were held according to the first call of the Russian Empire.
– 1912 – “Titanic” was lowered into the sea for sea trials. Test completed successfully.
– 1922 – a library of foreign literature was opened in Moscow.
– 1966 – Soviet satellite “Luna-10” became the world’s first spacecraft to orbit the Moon.
– 1968 – screening of the film “2001 Space Adventures”.
– 1978 – The series “Dallas” began to be shown on the American TV channel.
– 1982 – Great Britain and Argentina went to war over the Falkland Islands.
– 1989 – Yasser Arafat was elected president of the non-existent Palestinian state.
– 1996 – Russia-Belarus agreement on the establishment of a community of two countries was signed in Moscow.
– 2002 – Arab terrorists were surrounded by the Israeli military.
– 2005 – a new subway “Komendantsky Prospekt” was opened in St. Petersburg.
– 2014 – mass shooting at the Fort Hood military base.
– 2015 – Garissa University College attack, 148 dead.
– 2021 – Hualien train derails in Taiwan.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 748 – Charlemagne (814) – King of the Franks (768), founder of the Carolingian dynasty, Western emperor (from 800).
– 1618 – Francesco Grimaldi (1663) – Italian physicist, astronomer, made the first map of the Moon.
– 1725 – Jacamo Casanovo (1798) – Italian adventurer, writer, memoirist.
– 1805 – Hans Christian Andersen (1875) – a great children’s storyteller, writer, playwright and poet.
– 1830 – Paul Heyse (1914) – German poet, writer and short story writer, winner of the Nobel Prize (1910).
– 1840 – Emile Zolya (1902) – French writer.
– 1927 – Ferenc Puskás (2006) – Hungarian football player, recognized by many as one of the greatest players in the history of football.
– 1928 – Walter Zapashny (2007) – Soviet circus artist, People’s Artist of the RSFSR, trainer of wild animals.
– 1934 – Paul Joseph Cohen (2007) – American mathematician.
– 1962 – Clark Gregg is an American actor, director, screenwriter and voice actor.
– 1977 – Michael Fassbender – German actor.
– 1983 – Sergey Kovalyov – Russian boxer, world champion.
– 1984 – Alessio Figalli – Italian mathematician.
– 1990 – Yevgenia Kanayeva – Russian gymnast, two-time Olympic champion.
– 1998 – Samira Amirova – an Uzbek athlete in rhythmic gymnastics, a member of the national team of Uzbekistan.
– 2000 – Akmal Mozgovoy – Uzbek football player, midfielder of “Nasaf” and the national team of Uzbekistan.