Who was born on February 20 and what day is it?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – World Day of Social Justice.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇸 USA – National Cherry Pie Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Day of national solidarity with Muslim, Arab and South Asian immigrants.
🇮🇳 India – Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram State Day.
🇦🇷 Argentina – Day of the Battle of Salta.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Day of Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred.
🇪🇨 Venezuela – Federation Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 197 – The battle of Lugdun ended, Claudius Albinus was defeated by the Roman army.
– 395 – The first women’s monastery was founded in Bethlehem.
– 1017 – Khorezmshah Ma’mun ibn Ma’mun became a victim of a conspiracy.
– 1819 – St. Petersburg State University was established.
– 1831 – The Battle of Wawr ends during the Uprising of 1830-1831 in Poland.
– 1864 – Battle of Olast.
– 1872 – Metropolitan Museum opened in New York.
– 1922 – Sejm decided to annex Vilnius to Poland.
– 1927 – The Krasny Putilovets plant produced the first batch of new tramcars for Leningrad.
– 1940 – The beloved cartoon “Tom and Jerry” first appeared in the world.
– 1942 – Air battle in Bougainville.
-1943 – Parikutin volcano erupted in a farmer’s field in Mexico.
– 1945 – The treasure of the Orujeynaya Chamber was brought back from the Urals to Moscow.
– 1962 – John Glenn made the first American orbital space flight, orbiting the Earth three times.
– 1986 – “Mir” orbital station was launched into orbit.
-1992 – Diplomatic relations were established between Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia.
– 2014 – the beginning of shootings in Euromaidan.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1729 – Fyodor Volkov (1763) – actor, theater personality, founder of Russian theater.
– 1844 – Ludwig Boltzmann (1906) – Austrian physicist, founder of static physics and kinetic physics.
– 1878 – Rajabov Boltaboy (1960) – People’s Court of Uzbekistan (1939),
the owner of a clear and soft voice.
– 1889 – Lev Revutsky (1977) – Ukrainian composer, pedagogue, founder of modern Ukrainian music.
– 1904 – Chustiy (1983) – one of the poets who continued the traditions of our classical literature.
– 1918 – Hamrokhan Omonova (1996) – actress, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1981).
– 1920 – Carl Hans Albrecht (2014) – a German billionaire who founded the supermarket chain “Aldi” together with his brother Theo Albrecht.
– 1920 – Yevgeny Dragunov (1991) – Soviet firearms designer.
– 1931 – John Willard Milnor – American mathematician.
– 1932 – Suyima G’aniyeva (2018) – Soviet-Uzbek scholar of literature, Hero of Uzbekistan.
– 1941 – Farmonov Shakir – mathematician, academician of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan (2000).
– 1947 – Kholmatov Niyozali – miniature artist, academician of the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan (1997).
– 1948 – Matnazar Abdulhakim
(2010) – poet, honored culture worker of Uzbekistan.
– 1951 – Gordon Brown – 74th Prime Minister of Great Britain (2007-2010).
– 1956 – Mirzo Kenjabek – Poet, literary translator, writer, Islamic scholar, Sheikh of Naqshbandiya
– 1959 – Ilgizar Sobirov – Chairman of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2006-2015), Khorezm Region Governor (2017-2018)
– 1963 – Olim Odilov – Uzbek painter. He has been living in Hungary since the beginning of the 1990s.
– 1988 – Robyn Rihanna Fenty – Barbadian singer, actress and businesswoman.
– 1990 – Ciro Immobile – Italian football player, European champion (2020)
– 1997 – Sturla Holm Legreid – Norwegian biathlete, multiple world champion.