Who was born on February 23 and what day is it?

Who was born on February 23 and what day is it?

👉 HOLIDAYS:

🌏 World Day of Peace and Understanding.
🌏 International Day Against Violence.
🌏 Diesel Engine Day.

🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:

🇬🇧 Great Britain – Shropshire Day.
🇯🇵 Japan – Emperor’s birthday.
🇬🇾 Guyana – Republic Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Hospitality Workers Appreciation Day.
🇧🇳 Brunei – National Day.
🇧🇾 Belarus, 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan, 🇷🇺 Russia, 🇹🇯 Tajikistan – Defender of the Fatherland Day.

👉 EVENTS:

– 1280 – Battle of Gozlitsa.
– 1847 – Mexican-American War; The second, decisive day of the Battle of Buena Vista.
– 1874 – English major Walter Wingfield received a patent for a new game, tennis.
– 1876 – The Canadian (Ottawa) Parliament Library was opened.
– 1893 – Rudolph Diesel patented the internal combustion engine.
– 1903 – Cuba permanently leased the Guantanamo base to the United States.
– 1918 – Soviet Russia received an ultimatum from Kaiser Germany.
– 1941 – Plutonium was obtained for the first time.
– 1944 – Deportation of Chechens to Central Asia began as a result of the anti-Soviet revolution.
– 1947 – International Standards Organization (ISO) was established.
– 1958 – Victory monument was built on Poklonnaya Gora in Moscow.
– 1981 – Attempt of a military coup by far-right forces in Spain.
– 1987 – A supernova SN 1987A starburst reaches Earth. This is the closest supernova since the invention of the telescope.
– 1991 – the day when the Committee of Women and Girls of the Republic of Uzbekistan was formed.
– 1993 – Rubu language program was created.
– 2001 – Swedish Wikipedia is published.
– 2004 – “Ozarkhiv” agency was established.
– 2008 – Ugandan civil war ends.

👉 BIRTHDAYS:

– 1685 – Georg Friedrich Handel (1759) – German composer.
– 1744 – Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1812) is the founder of the international businessman Rothschild dynasty.
– 1840 – Carl Menger (1921) – Austrian economist, founder of the Austrian school of economic thought, one of the founders of the theory of marginal utility.
– 1868 – Duba, Du Boyce William Edward Burkhardt (1963) – American writer, historian, public figure, one of the founders of modern Negro literature in the USA.
– 1900 – Charkhi, son of Hamroali of Askara (1979) – People’s poet of Uzbekistan (1975).
– 1903 – Julius Fuchik (1943) – Czech journalist, critic, publicist.
– 1924 – Allan Cormack (1988) – South African and American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1979).
– 1930 – Zulayho Saparova – Karakalpak dancer. People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1969).
– 1934 – Mubarak Yoldoshev – theater artist, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (2000).
– 1940 – Ubaidulla Uvatov (2020) – famous Uzbek Islamic scholar, orientalist, doctor of history, professor.
– 1941 – Yorkinoy Hotamova – actress, singer (lyric soprano), People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1991).
– 1944 – Oleg Yankovsky (2009) – theater and film actor, director, People’s Artist of the USSR.
– 1952 – Kadirov Rashid – Chief Prosecutor of Uzbekistan (2000-2015).
– 1954 – Viktor Yushchenko – the 3rd president of Ukraine (2005-2010).
– 1960 – Naruhito – Emperor of Japan.
– 1983 – Emily Olivia Leah Blunt – British actress.
– 1986 – Holly Brooke Hafermann – better known by the stage name Skyler Grey, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer.
– 1987 – Denisov Vitaly – football player from Uzbekistan, member of the national team of Uzbekistan.
– 1994 – Hannah Dakota Fenning – American actress.
– 2000 – Femke Bol – Dutch runner, multiple European champion, Olympic Games winner.