👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – World Water Day.
🌍 European countries – Baltic Sea Day.
🌏 International Seal Day.
🌏 International Day of Taxi Drivers.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan – Day of neighborhood system employees.
🇩🇪 Germany – Berlin Bear Day.
🇵🇭 Philippines – Emilio Aguinaldo Day and the anniversary of the founding of the Philippine Army.
🇱🇦 Laos – People’s Party Day.
🇸🇽 Sint Maarten – Tree Day.
🇵🇷 Puerto Rico – Independence Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1314 – Pope Clement V disbanded the Knights Templar at the request of King Philip IV of France.
– 1613 – A group of Puritans leave England for America, where they begin to build Boston.
– 1633 – Galileo renounced his scientific views on his knees before the church court.
– 1675 – Greenwich Observatory was founded.
– 1772 – Slavery was abolished in England.
– 1841 – A patent for the production of starch was received in the USA.
– 1848 – Venice declared its independence from Austria.
– 1849 – Austro-Italian War: Battle of Novara.
– 1859 – The Victorian Political Labor League, the world’s first labor party, was founded in Melbourne.
– 1873 – Slavery was banned in Puerto Rico.
– 1874 – The first match in the history of tennis was held.
– 1876 – The Spanish constitution was adopted.
– 1882 – The US Congress abolished polygamy.
– 1888 – 12 football teams founded the English Football League in London.
– 1894 – The first hockey game for the Stanley Cup took place.
– 1894 – Dagomeia was declared a French colony.
– 1895 – The first public film screening was held in Paris.
– 1897 – an art theater was opened in Moscow.
– 1907 – The first metered taxis appeared on the streets of London.
– 1917 – The USA was the first to recognize the Provisional Government of Russia.
– 1920 – the massacre of Armenians began in the city of Shusha (Nagorno-Karabakh).
– 1933 – The first concentration camp in Nazi Germany opened in Dachau.
– 1935 – The Persian state began to be called Iran.
– 1943 – Nazis destroyed the village of Khotin in Belarus.
– 1945 – League of Arab countries was established in Cairo.
– 1951 – the first Central Television Studio was established in the USSR.
– 1995 – Valery Polyakov spent 438 days in space and returned to Earth.
– 2016 – Several terrorist acts were committed in Brussels.
– 2021 – A supermarket shooting in Boulder, Colorado kills 10.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1181 – Umar ibn Ali Ibn al-Farid – Arab poet.
– 1394 – Mirza (later Sultan) Muhammad ibn Shahrukh ibn Temur Ulugbek Koragon (1449) – ruler of the Timurid state, son of Shahrukh. Great Uzbek astronomer and mathematician.
– 1549 – Maximilian I (1519) – King of Germany (since 1486), Holy Roman Emperor (since 1508).
– 1768 – Brian Donkin (1855) – English engineer, invented the paper machine.
– 1797 – Wilhelm I (1888) – German Emperor (Kaiser) since January 18, 1871.
– 1868 – Robert Andrews Milliken (1953) – American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1923).
– 1895 – Leonid Utyosov (1982) – singer, actor, People’s Artist of the USSR.
– 1905 – Nikolay Baskakov (1996) – Honored scientist in Karakalpakstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, doctor of philology.
– 1915 – Georgy Zhjenov (2005) – Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, People’s Artist of the USSR.
– 1931 – Berton Richter (2018) – American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1976).
– 1948 – Andrew Lloyd-Webber
English composer.
– 1949 – Fanny Ardan – French theater and film actress, director.
– 1958 – Valery Syutkin – Soviet and Russian singer and musician, Honored Artist of Russia.
– 1961 – Alexander Sekalo – Russian musician, actor, producer, TV presenter.
– 1963 – Martín Alberto Vizcarra Cornejo – the 67th and current President of Peru.
– 1970 – Leontin van Morsel – Dutch cyclist, 4-time Olympic and 8-time world champion.
– 1981 – Gulsanam Mamazoitova – Uzbek singer, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan.