Who was born on February 2 and what day is it?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 World Wetlands Day.
🌏 Day of sled dogs.
🌏 Rheumatoid Awareness Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan – Youth Day.
🇪🇪 Estonia – Candlemas Day.
🇩🇰 Denmark – Day of the Battle of Mysunde.
🇷🇺 Russia – Victory Day in the Battle of Stalingrad.
🇪🇪 Estonia – the day the Tartu Treaty was signed.
🇵🇭 Philippines – Constitution Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Hedgehog Day.
🇨🇦 Canada, 🇺🇸 USA – Insurance Day.
🇹🇭 Thailand – National Agriculture Day.
🇮🇷 Iran – National Space Technology Day.
🇹🇭 Thailand – Inventors’ Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 629 – Emperor Jomei became the 34th emperor of Japan.
– 962 – Otto I the Great is crowned emperor in Western Europe for the first time in 40 years.
– 1141 – English Civil War: Battle of Lincoln.
– 1238 – Botukhon plundered Moscow.
– 1440 – Frederick III Habsburg became king of Germany.
– 1461 – War of the Red and White Roses: The Yorks are decisively victorious at the Battle of Mortimer’s Cross.
– 1536 – Pedro de Mendoza founded the city of Buenos Aires.
– 1626 – Charles I sat on the English throne.
– 1680 – Subkhanquli Khan was raised to the rank of khan while staying in the city of Karshi.
– 1701 – The Baltic Fleet was founded.
– 1886 – Sugur Day was officially celebrated in the USA for the first time.
– 1892 – The metal bottle cap is patented.
-1905 – The Egyptian Bridge in St. Petersburg collapsed.
– 1918 – The People’s Commissariat of the USSR issued a decree that “the Church is free from the state and school.”
– 1920 – the Tartu peace treaty was signed between the RSFSR and Estonia.
– 1920 – The Revolutionary Committee was formed in Khiva.
– 1922 – The novel “Ulysses” was published.
– 1929 – The decision “On compiling the list of cities and towns of the Uzbek SSR” was adopted.
– 1943 – 91,000 Germans under the command of Field Marshal Paulus were captured in the Battle of Stalingrad.
– 1946 – South Sakhalin and Kuril Islands became part of the USSR.
– 1971 – “Convention on Water and Wetlands” was signed in Ramsar (Iran).
– 1982 – Civilians were killed in a conflict with the Islamic movement in Syria.
– 1986 – Women took part in elections for the first time in Liechtenstein.
– 1998 – Republican scientific and practical center “Family” was established.
– 2009 – Iran launched the Umid satellite into space.
– 2019 – The Information and Mass Communications Agency under the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan was established.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1861 – Mehmed VI Wahid ud-Din (1926) – the last, 36th sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1918-1922).
– 1882 – James Joyce (1941) – English writer.
– 1885 – Mikhail Frunze (1925) – one of the Soviet military leaders who established the Soviet regime in Turkestan by force of arms.
– 1904 – Bozurg Alavi (1997) – Iranian writer.
– 1904 – Valery Chkalov (1938) – Russian test pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union (1936).
-1905 – Ghairatiy (Abdurahim Abdullayev, 1976) – People’s poet of Uzbekistan.
– 1915 – Sultanov Muhammad – helminthologist, correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan (1968).
– 1944 – Akil Akilov – Prime Minister of Tajikistan (1999-2013).
– 1952 – Park Geun-hye – the 11th president of the Republic of Korea (2013-2016). The first female president in the country’s history.
– 1956 – Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya) – Turkish writer and publicist, creative approacher to Islam.
– 1977 – Shakira is a Colombian singer.
– 1982 – Marina Radish – Moldovan opera singer (soprano).
– 1986 – Gemma Arterton – English actress, film producer.
– 1987 – Gerard Pique – Spanish football player, world and European champion.