Who was born on February 21 and what day is it?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 International Mother Language Day.
🌏 International Day of Tourist Guides.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇮🇷 Iran – Youth Day.
🇳🇴 Norway – King’s birthday.
🇬🇧 Great Britain, 🇨🇦 Canada – Mental Health Nurses Day.
🇿🇦 South Africa – Armed Forces Day.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe – Youth Day.
🇻🇺 Vanuatu – Walter Lee Day.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh – Language Revolution Day.
🇧🇹 Bhutan – King’s birthday.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1427 – Timurid ruler Shahrukh Mirza was assassinated.
– 1784 – The city of Sevastopol was founded.
– 1804 – Richard Trevithick demonstrated a steam engine in Wales.
– 1811 – Humphrey Davy described the properties of the gas he discovered – chlorine.
– 1816 – the secret society “Union of Salvation or the Society of Loyal and Trustworthy Children of the Fatherland” was established.
– 1848 – “Manifesto” of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was published.
– 1872 – Alexander II signed the decree on the establishment of the Moscow State History Museum.
– 1916 – The beginning of the Battle of Verdun, one of the largest and bloodiest military operations of the First World War.
– 1918 – The last Caroline parrot died at the Cincinnati Zoo.
– 1935 – the first international film festival in the USSR was opened in Moscow.
– 1953 – James Watson and Francis Crick proposed the double helix model of DNA.
– 1973 – The Vientiane Treaty was signed, ending the civil war in Laos.
– 1995 – The Law on Language was adopted in Estonia.
– 1992 – The Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations of Uzbekistan was established.
– 1992 – Uzbekistan established diplomatic relations with Malaysia.
– 1995 – Steve Fossett crosses the Pacific Ocean in an Aerostat.
– 1997 – “Uzbekraqs” national dance association named after Mukarrama Turgunboeva was established.
– 2000 – “Grateful Memory” international charity fund was established.
– 2004 – more than 170 people died as a result of a massacre organized by terrorists in a refugee camp in Uganda.
– 2006 – “Hubble” telescope recorded object SCP 06F6.
– 2008 – Total lunar eclipse.
– 2009 – An explosion at a coal mine in Gujiao, China kills at least 74 miners.
– 2022 – Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decrees on the recognition of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1559 – Nurkhatsi (1626) – Manchu Khan (1616-1626). From the Oysingoro people. A descendant of Mangu Temur, the district head of the Ming Dynasty.
– 1728 – Peter III Fedorovich – Emperor of Russia (in 1762).
– 1783 – Fedor Tolstoy – painter and sculptor
– 1835 – Mayev Nikolay (1896) – ethnographer, geographer.
– 1836 – Delib Clément Philibert Leo (1891) – French composer, ballet genre reformer.
– 1895 – Dam Henrik Carl Peter (1976) – Danish biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1943).
– 1924 – Robert Gabriel Mugabe (2019) – President of Zimbabwe (1987-2017).
– 1927 – Zhora Abdullayev (2020) – energy scientist, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan (1989), Honored Scientist of Uzbekistan (1980).
-1937 – Harald V – King of Norway (since 1991).
– 1946 – Alan Rickman (2016) – British actor and director.
– 1957 – Nikolai Rastorguyev – Russian singer, People’s Artist of Russia.
– 1962 – Chuck Palahniuk – modern American writer, journalist.
– 1965 – Evair Aparecido Paulino – Brazilian football player.
– 1980 – Jigme Kesar Namgyel Wangchuck – King of Bhutan (since 2008).
– 1987 – Ellen Page – Canadian actor and producer.
– 1996- Sophie Turner – English actress.