Who was born on January 22 and what events happened on that day?

Who was born on January 22 and what events happened on that day?

👉 HOLIDAYS:

🌏 Community Manager Appreciation Day.
🌏 Popcorn Birthday (Popcorn Day).

🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:

🇵🇱 Poland – Grandfather’s Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Unity Day.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan – Customs Day.
🇰🇾 Cayman Islands – National Heroes Day.
🇧🇴 Bolivia – Multinational State Day.

👉 EVENTS:

– 565 – Justinian I succeeded in removing Eutychius from the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
– 888 – Guido of Spoleto was proclaimed King of Italy.
– 1273 – The army of the Hulukyus occupied the city of Bukhara.
– 1506 – Pope Julius II invited the Swiss Guards to serve in the Vatican, who have guarded the papal residence to this day.
– 1517 – Sultan Selim I of the Ottoman Empire subjugated the Mamluk Sultanate, located in present-day Egypt.
– 1861 – Henri Mouot discovered the Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia.
– 1863 – The January Revolution began in Poland.
– 1879 – The Battle of Izdanlwan.
– 1905 – Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg (according to the new calendar).
– 1919 – The Central Rada of Ukraine declared the independence of the Ukrainian People’s Republic.
– 1919 – The “Zluky Act” – Ukraine was united into a single state.
– 1927 – Samarkand State University named after Alisher Navoi was founded.
– 1944 – Allied troops of the United States and Great Britain landed in Rome.
– 1969 – An assassination attempt on Brezhnev took place in the USSR.
– 1973 – Abortions were legalized in the United States.
– 1991 – Monetary reform was carried out in the USSR.
– 1992 – The Philippines recognized the independence of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
– 2005 – Kim Ke Gwan announced that the DPRK had nuclear weapons.
– 2014 – The 100th anniversary of the Uzbek National Academic Drama Theater was celebrated.
– 2006 – 46-year-old Evo Morales took office as President of Bolivia (he held this position until 2019).
– 2018 – The Civil Procedure Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan was approved.

👉 BIRTHS:

– 1440 – Ivan III (1505) – Grand Duke of Moscow.
– 1561 – Francis Bacon (1626) – English philosopher, historian, politician and romantic poet.
– 1572 – John Donne (1631) – English poet.
– 1592 – Pierre Gassendi (1655) – French philosopher, mathematician, astronomer.
– 1729 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1781) – German playwright, art theorist, literary critic, enlightener.
– 1788 – George Gordon Byron (1824) – great English poet.
– 1875 – Griffith David Wark (1948) – American film director.
– 1898 – Sergei Eisenstein (1948) – Soviet theater and film director, artist, screenwriter.
– 1904 – Arkady Gaidar (1941) – Russian children’s writer, journalist.
– 1908 – Lev Landau (1968) – Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1962).
– 1909 – U Than (1974) – Burmese diplomat, 3rd Secretary-General of the UN (1962- 1971).
– 1922 – Mallaev Natan (1996) – literary critic, translator, Honored Scientist of Uzbekistan (1973).
– 1936 – Haydar Muhammad (2022) – Member of the Writers’ Union of Uzbekistan, poet and playwright, recipient of the Order of Friendship.
– 1959 – Urs Mayer – Swiss football referee.
– 1968 – Frank Leboeuf – French footballer, World and European champion with the national team.
– 1977 – Hidetoshi Nakata – famous Japanese footballer.
– 1986 – Olga Romanovskaya – Ukrainian model and singer.