What holidays are there on January 20 and who was born on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 Penguin Awareness Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇸 USA – Cheese Lovers Day.
🇪🇸 Spain – Mount Tamborrada.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Day of Remembrance of the Defenders of Donetsk Airport.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Day of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
🇱🇻 Latvia – Day of Remembrance of the Defenders of the Barricades.
🇺🇸 USA – National DJ Day.
🇨🇻 Cape Verde, 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau – Heroes’ Day.
🇲🇱 Mali – Armed Forces Day.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan – Day of Mourning.
👉 EVENTS:
– 250 – Roman Emperor Decius issued a decree on the persecution of Christians and executed Pope Fabian.
– 1256 – Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, convenes the first English Parliament.
– 1320 – King Władysław I of Poland is crowned and unites the Polish state to fight the Teutonic Order.
– 1752 – Luigi Vanvitelli begins construction of the royal palace at Caserta.
– 1783 – The initial treaty between Great Britain and France is signed as part of the Treaty of Paris.
– 1841 – British troops occupy Hong Kong.
– 1892 – The first basketball game is played in the United States.
– 1893 – James Dewar demonstrates a tank for storing liquefied gases at the Royal Institution in London.
– 1921 – The first constitution of Turkey is adopted.
– 1921 – The Dagestan ASSR – the current Republic of Dagestan – is formed.
– 1942 – The Wannsee Conference considered the fate of Europe.
– 1944 – The British Air Force dropped 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin.
– 1953 – Vladimir Myasishchev’s M-4 (103M) strategic intercontinental jet bomber made its first flight.
– 1961 – John F. Kennedy was elected President of the United States.
– 1967 – Sergeli District was established.
– 1976 – Damur Massacre.
– 1990 – Soviet troops entered Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan (Black January).
– 1996 – Asakabank, a state-owned commercial bank, began its operations.
– 1996 – Yasser Arafat was elected President of the Palestinian Authority.
-2009 – Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, took office.
– 2018 – Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch in northern Syria.
– 2021 – Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States.
👉 BIRTHS:
– 225 – Mark Antony Gordian Pius (244) – Roman Emperor.
– 1716 – Charles III (1788) – Duke of Parma (1731-1734), Naples and Sicily (1734-1759), King of Spain (from 1759).
– 1775 – Andre Mare Ampère (1836) – French physicist, mathematician and inventor.
– 1877 – Likhovich-Shamsheva Evgenia (1979) – actress and opera singer.
– 1902 – Nozim Hikmat (2019) – Turkish poet and writer.
– 1920 – Fellini Federico (1993) – Italian film director, journalist.
– 1922 – Turgun Alimatov (2008) – musician (dutor, tanbur, sato). People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1992).
– 1926 – Patricia Neal (2010) – American film actress.
– 1939 – Bekturdi Jumaniyozov – master farmer, Hero of Uzbekistan (2000).
– 1952 – Sheikh Alouddin Mansur (2020) – one of the famous Uzbek scholars, sheikh and scholar.
– 1952 – Khurshid Davron – Talented poet and publicist, People’s Poet of Uzbekistan (199).
– 1952 – Irina Allegrova – singer, People’s Artist of Russia.
– 1956 – John Neiber – American swimmer, 4-time Olympic champion (1976).
– 1960 – Azizov Abdusalom – Chairman of the State Security Service of the Republic of Uzbekistan (since February 11, 2019), President of the Football Federation of Uzbekistan (since July 15, 2019).
– 1965 – Sophie – Countess of Wessex, wife of Prince Edward.
– 1966 – Salomat Vafo – writer.
– 1969 – Nuriddin Ismoilov – famous Uzbek detective writer and public figure.
– 1975 – Bakhtiyor Nurillayev – weightlifter, international master of sports (1998), “Pride of Uzbekistan” (2003).
– 1976 – Anastasia Volochkova – Russian ballerina.
– 2002 – Kumushkhon Fayzullaeva – Uzbek weightlifter, member of the Uzbekistan national team.
– 2002 – Alexandra Boykova – Russian figure skater (pair), European champion (2020).
