Who was born on February 22 and what day is it?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 World Thinking Day.
🌏 World Encephalitis Day.
🇪🇺 European Union – Day of Victims of Crime.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇯🇵 Japan – Cat Day.
🇯🇵 Japan – Takeshima Day.
🇵🇱 Poland – Crime Victims Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Wildlife Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Supermarket Employees Day.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia – Date of Establishment.
🇱🇨 Saint Lucia – Independence Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1407 – Timurid prince Pirmuhammad Mirza, grandson of Amir Temur, who declared him as his crown prince before Sahibqiran’s death, died.
– 1495 – King Charles VIII of France captures Naples without a fight.
– 1632 – Galileo Galilei published his “Dialogue concerning the two world leaders – Ptolemaic and Copernican systems”.
– 1714 – The Botanical Garden was established in St. Petersburg.
– 1744 – The Battle of Toulon began in the war for the Austrian succession.
– 1819 – Spain sold Florida to the United States for $5 million.
– 1828 – the Treaty of Turkmenchoi was signed between Russia and Iran.
– 1848 – Bourgeois-democratic revolution began in Paris.
– 1878 – Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony was performed for the first time.
– 1901 – “Rio de Janeiro” passenger ship disaster: 128 victims.
– 1913 – Mexican Revolution: President Francisco Madero is killed in a coup.
– 1918 – The “peace treaty” prepared by the Bolsheviks was signed in the building of the Russo-Asia Bank in the city of Kokan.
– 1945 – Uruguay declared war on Germany.
– 1946 – Dr. Zelman Waxman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin.
– 1958 – The presidents of Egypt and Syria signed the act of unification of the two countries.
– 1966 – “Cosmos-110” satellite was launched into space with dogs Veterok and Ugolok on board.
– 1968 – the Soviet Antarctic station – “Bellenshausen” was put into operation.
– 1979 – Saint Lucia gained independence from Britain.
– 1990 – The British government announced the “Charter for Victims of Crime”.
– 1993 – Azerbaijani officer Surat Huseynov revolted against the government in Ganja.
– 1995 – “Adolat” newspaper was published.
– 2015 – a terrorist attack was committed in Kharkiv.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1403 – Charles VII Muzaffar (1461) – King of France from Valois (since 1422).
– 1732 – George Washington (1799) – American statesman and military leader, the first President of the United States (1789-1797).
– 1788 – Arthur Schopenhauer (1860) – German philosopher, one of the first representatives of the school of irrationalism.
– 1800 – Anna Kern (1879) – Russian noblewoman, memoirist.
– 1810 – Fryderyk Chopin (1849) – Polish composer, pianist, major representative of musical romanticism, founder of the national composition school.
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– 1850 – Fedor Vasiliev (1873) – Russian landscape painter.
– 1857 – Hers Heinrich Rudolf (1894) – German physicist, one of the founders of electrodynamics, discovered electromagnetic waves (1888).
– 1909 – Jamal Karimov (1993) – mathematician, Honored Scientist of Uzbekistan (1967).
– 1914 – Renato Dulbecco (2012) – American virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1975).
– 1917 – Yoldoshev Sadriddin – biologist, academician (1978), correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan (1968).
– 1921 – Jean-Bedel Bokasso (1996) – President (1966-1976) and Emperor (1976-1979) of the Central African Republic.
– 1921 – Mazina Julietta (1994) – Italian film actress.
– 1948 – Azim Suyun (2020) – poet, honored cultural worker of Uzbekistan.
– 1969 – Joaquin Cortes – Spanish actor, ballet dancer, representative of Roma in the EU.
– 1975 – Drew Barrymore – American actress.
– 1975 – Olga Budina – Russian actress, performer of romances.
– 1982 – Dichen Lachman is an Australian actress of Nepalese origin.
– 1988 – Jimena Navarrete – Mexican model, winner of the “Miss World 2010” contest.