Who was born on May 2 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – World Tuna Day.
🌎 International Harry Potter Day.
🌎 World Password Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇪🇸 Spain – Madrid Day.
🇵🇱 Poland – Flag Day, Polish Diaspora Day.
🇮🇩 Indonesia – Education Day.
🇮🇷 Iran – Teacher’s Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Prayer Day.
🇧🇹 Bhutan – Teacher’s Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1312 – Pope Clement V transferred the property of the Templar Order to the Hospitaller Order.
– 1509 – The Spanish founded the city of San Juan (now the capital of Puerto Rico).
– 1568 – Mary Stuart escapes from her castle.
– 1635 – Doctors of Louis XIII created a healing garden in Paris.
– 1635 – Doctors of Louis XIII created a healing garden in Paris.
– 1668 – The first Peace of Aachen was concluded between France and Spain.
– 1764 – According to the order of Ekateria II, the school “Admission and donation of children and homeless children” was established in Russia.
– 1808 – Madrid Revolution.
– 1813 – Battle of Lutsen.
– 1857 – Félix du Temple was granted a patent for an airplane design with a steam engine, a propeller, and a three-wheel landing gear.
– 1868 – Samarkand was conquered by Russian invaders.
– 1885 – Leopold II took the Congo state as his “personal property”.
– 1919 – A passenger airline was launched in the USA.
– 1922 – the marriage of Sergei Yesenin and the dancer Isadora Duncan was recorded.
– 1935 – the USSR and France signed an agreement on mutual assistance.
– 1945 – Soviet troops fully occupied Berlin, the capital of Germany, the siege of Berlin ended.
– 1982 – Falklands War: Argentine ship General Belgrano is sunk.
– 1995 – Bosnian Serbs launched a rocket attack on Zagreb, the capital of Croatia.
– 1996 – The President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov issued a Decree “On the establishment of the Academy of Banking and Finance of the Republic of Uzbekistan”.
– 1997 – Tony Blair became the Prime Minister of Great Britain.
– 2004 – The monument to the Soviet soldier holding a little girl returned to Treptov Park. In the fall of 2003, the monument was dismantled and taken away for restoration.
– 2004 – A new network worm – “Sasser” appeared on the Internet.
– 2011 – The US special service killed Osama bin Laden. A new network worm “Sasser” appeared on the Internet.
– 2014 – A fire broke out in the building of Trade Unions in Odessa.
– 2014 – Russia called an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council due to the situation in Slavyansk.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1695 – Giovanni Nicco Servandoni (1766) – Italian architect, theater artist, painter.
– 1729 – Catherine II (1796) – Empress of Russia (1762-1796).
– 1834 – Wilhelm Mauser (1882) – German designer and weapons manufacturer.
– 1856 – Vasily Rozanov (1919) – Russian theological philosopher, literary critic and publicist.
– 1859 – Jerome Klapka Jerome (1927) – English writer, playwright
– 1860 – William Maddock Bayliss (1924) – English physiologist, discoverer of hormones.
– 1895 – Kurella Alfred (1975) – German writer, publicist, translator and public figure.
– 1903 – Benjamin Spock (1998) – American pediatrician.
– 1904 – Kamil Yormatov (1978) – a famous Uzbek actor and film director.
– 1911 – Nuriddinov Siroj (1966) – First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU of the Uzbek SSR (1949-1950).
– 1939 – Leonid Kanevsky – Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, television director, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
– 1946 – David Suche – English film actor, known to the world for the role of Hercule Poirot_
– 1950 – Khosiyat Bobomurodova – talented poetess, honored culture worker in Uzbekistan.
– 1971 – Dwayne Johnson – American actor, director, and professional wrestler.
– 1975 – David Beckham – British former professional football player, one of the 100 Great Britons and 100 Most Influential People in the World.
– 2015 – Charlotte – Princess of Cambridge, second child of Prince William, granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain.