Who was born on April 23 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UNESCO – World Book and Copyright Day.
🇺🇳 UN – English Language Day.
🇺🇳 UN – Spanish Language Day.
🌏 World Table Tennis Day.
🌏 World Laboratory Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇨🇦 Canada – Book Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Day of Psychologists.
🇨🇳 China – Navy Day.
🇹🇷 Turkey – National Sovereignty and Children’s Day.
🇬🇧 Great Britain – Shakespeare Day.
🇪🇪 Estonia – Veterans Day
🇨🇴 Colombia – Language Day.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan – Book Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– Mil. av. 215 – The Temple of Venus is built on the Capitoline Hill in Rome.
– 1348 – The highest honor of Great Britain – the Order of the Garter – was established.
– 1605 – Fyodor Godunov was proclaimed Tsar of Russia.
– 1633 – Sweden formed a Protestant alliance with the German princes against the Catholics.
– 1662 – Connecticut is declared a colony of Great Britain.
– 1836 – the first issue of “Sovremennik” magazine was published in St. Petersburg.
– 1896 – The first film screening in America was held in New York.
– 1907 – Jack London sailed around the world.
– 1908 – one of the largest floods in the history of the city began in Moscow.
-1913 – “Aquitania” ship was launched.
– 1931 – Munavvar Qori was executed in Moscow.
– 1935 – the new constitution of Poland was adopted.
– 1948 – First Arab-Israeli War: The Israelis recapture the seaport of Haifa.
– 1951 – USSR Olympic Committee was established.
– 1964 – Taganka Theater was established.
– 1965 – The first Soviet communication satellite – “Molniya-1” was launched into space.
– 1967 – “Soyuz-1” spacecraft was launched.
– 1975 – The Ukrainian Book Museum was opened in Kyiv.
– 1982 – ZX Spectrum computer is released.
– 1990 – Namibia became the 160th member of the UN and the 50th member of the British Commonwealth.
– 1991 – During the meeting in Novo-Ogaryovo, the President of the USSR M. Gorbachev and the leaders of 9 republics signed the declaration on the principles of the new Union Treaty.
– 1996 – World Book Day was announced.
– 2007 – Global road safety week started in many countries of the world on the initiative of UN.
– 2018 – As a result of protests in Armenia, Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan resigned.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1564 – William Shakespeare – English playwright and poet.
– 1775 – William Turner (1851) – English painter, master of romantic landscapes.
– 1791 – James Buchanan (1868) – 15th President of the United States (1857-1861), statesman and politician.
– 1804 – Maria Taglioni (1884) – an Italian ballerina, a major representative of romantic ballet.
– 1823 – Abdulmajid I (1861) – 31st king of the Ottoman Empire.
– 1858 – Max Planck (1947) – German physicist, founder of quantum theory, winner of the Nobel Prize (1918).
– 1867 – Johannes Fibiger (1928) – Danish microbiologist and pathologist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1926).
– 1891 – Sergei Prokofiev (1953) – Russian composer, pianist and conductor.
– 1896 – Mate Zalka (1937) – Hungarian writer and revolutionary, anti-fascist.
– 1899 – Bertil Olin (1979) – Swedish economist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1977).
– 1902 – Haldur Kiljan Laxness (1998) – Icelandic writer, poet and playwright, translator, winner of the Nobel Prize.
– 1918 – Maurice Druon (2009) – French writer and statesman.
– 1926 – Rikhsiboy Orifjanov (1979) – actor, director, playwright, honored artist of Uzbekistan (1964).
– 1930 – Gleb Skorokhodov – Soviet and Russian writer, TV presenter, Honored Artist of Russia.
– 1930 – Laziz Qayumov – honored scientist, literary critic, doctor of philology.
– 1946 – Anatoly Byshovets – football player and football coach, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.
– 1984 – Alexandra Kosteniuk – Russian chess player, grandmaster, 12th world champion.
– 2018 – Prince Louis of Cambridge is the son of Prince William and grandson of King Charles.