Who was born on April 20 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – Chinese Language Day.
🌏 World Circus Day.
🌏 World Orphans’ Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇮🇩 Indonesia – National Consumer Day.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan – Dushanbe city day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Environment Day.
🇯🇵 Japan – Postal Service Employees Day.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan – Day of employees of justice bodies.
🇷🇺 Russia – Day of Donors.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1410 – A battle took place between the allied troops led by Mirza Ulughbek and Sheikh Nuriddin in the Kyzilravot area.
– 1534 – French explorer Jacques Cartier’s first expedition to Canada begins.
– 1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves Parliament in England.
– 1656 – copper coins appeared in Russia instead of silver coins.
– 1770 – James Cook discovers New South Wales (Southeastern Australia).
– 1794 – Former mayor of Paris, astronomer Jean de Saron was killed by guillotine.
– 1809 – defeat of Austrian troops by Napoleon’s army in the battle near Abensberg.
– 1832 – Andrey Wolf, an obstetrician from St. Petersburg, managed to administer a blood transfusion for the first time in Russia. The woman who lost blood was donated by her husband.
– 1841 – The world’s first detective story was published.
– 1862 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard successfully performed sterilization.
– 1865 – Safe matches appeared.
– 1901 – grand opening of the Bolshoi Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.
– 1902 – Pierre and Marie Curie succeeded in obtaining pure radium.
– 1910 – Galilean’s Comet came very close to Earth.
– 1920 – VII Olympic Games began in Belgium.
– 1924 – The Constitution of the Republic of Turkey was adopted.
– 1934 – Seven pilots who saved the crew of the steamer “Chelyuskin” were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
– 1940 – the first electron microscope was demonstrated in the USA.
– 1942 – The Battle of Moscow in the Great Patriotic War ended.
– 1949 – The International Volleyball Federation was established.
– 1982 – Navoi region was formed.
– 1990 – The name of Czechoslovakia was changed to Czecho-Slovakia.
– 1994 – At the meeting of the CIS countries in Tashkent, the agreement “On Collective Security” was signed.
– 1999 – Columbine school massacre.
– 2001 – For the first time in the history of English pop music, musician Paul McCartney became a billionaire.
– 2010 – A major environmental disaster occurred due to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1633 – Emperor Go-Komyo (1654) – 110th emperor of Japan (1643-1654).
– 1650 – Feliche Bozilli (1732) – Italian painter.
– 1808 – Napoleon III (1873) – Emperor of France (1852-1870).
– 1889 – Adolf Hitler (1945) – leader of the 3rd Reich.
– 1911 – Ahad Haydarov (1971) – surgeon, honored scientist of Uzbekistan (1968).
– 1918 – Kay Sigban (2007) – Swedish physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1981).
– 1923 – Orozgul Davletova – actress, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1969).
– 1927 – Müller Carl Alexander – Swiss physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1987).
– 1939 – Tuygun Shorahimov – theater artist, honored artist of Karakalpakstan (1973) and Uzbekistan (1983).
– 1947 – Mark Fisher (2013) – a famous English architect.
– 1947 – Vyacheslav Gvozdkov – director, Honored Artist of Uzbekistan (1989), Honored Doctor of Uzbekistan (1950).
– 1949 – Jessica Lange – American film actress.
– 1951 – Luther Vandross (2005) – singer, 8-time Grammy Award winner.
– 1954 – Dadakhan Yaqubov – journalist, honored artist of Uzbekistan (1990).
– 1958 – Vyacheslav Fetisov – Soviet and Russian ice hockey player, statesman.
– 1962 – Sigurður Ingi Jouhannsson – Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland (2016-2017).
– 1964 – Andrei Clement Serkis – a great British actor, director, producer and screenwriter.
– 1969 – Felix Baumgartner is an Austrian skydiver who set a number of world records.
– 1960 – Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez – the 19th and current president of Cuba
– 1972 – Carmen Electra – American film actress, model, singer, dancer
– 1972 – Svetlana Ishmurodova – Russian biathlete, two-time Olympic, five-time World champion