Who was born on March 23 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – World Meteorological Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇧🇴 Bolivia – Day of the Sea.
🇵🇱 Poland, 🇭🇺 Hungary – Poland-Hungary Friendship Day.
🇲🇾 Malaysia – Sultan Johor Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Puppy Day.
🇦🇴 Angola – South African Independence Day.
🇵🇰 Pakistan – Pakistan Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 625 – The Battle of Uhud took place in Arabia between Muslims from Medina and Quraysh from Mecca.
– 1324 – Pope John XXII declared Emperor Louis of Bavaria excommunicated.
– 1839 – “O.K.” birthday of the phrase. (now famous “ok”).
– 1841 – Richard Beard opened the first photography studio in Europe in London.
– 1848 – Hungary became independent from Austria.
– 1876 – Pavel Yablochkov received a patent for the “electrical conductor” invented by him.
– 1891 – For the first time, a football goal net was used.
– 1900 – Archaeologists found the remains of the legendary Labyrinth – the palace of the Minotaur in Crete.
– 1933 – The Reichstag gave Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.
– 1956 – The first Islamic Republic – Pakistan was announced.
– 1983 – Soviet ultraviolet space telescope – “Astron” was launched.
– 1983 – US President Ronald Reagan launched the Strategic Defense Initiative.
– 1998 – Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Viktor Chernomyrdin resigned.
– 2001 – Mir orbital station was submerged in the Pacific Ocean.
– 2004 – a real cemetery where two thousand soldiers were buried was found in the historical national park on the Gallipoli peninsula (Turkey).
– 2019 – President of Kazakhstan Kasim-Jomrat Tokayev signed a decree on changing the name of the capital to Nur-Sultan.
-2021 – Container ship Ever Given sinks in the Suez Canal.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1749 – Pierre-Simon Laplace (1827) – French astronomer, mathematician and physicist.
– 1826 – Ludwig Minkus – Austrian composer, violinist and conductor
– 1881 – Staudinger German (1965) – German chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1953).
– 1881 – Roger Martin du Gare (1958) – French writer, playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize (1937).
– 1898 – Yuri Skvorsov (1968) –
Worker of science and technology, geologist and geomorphologist who served in Uzbekistan.
– 1900 – Erich Fromm (1980) – German-American philosopher and sociologist, psychoanalyst.
– 1900 – Hassan Fathi – Egyptian architect.
– 1902 – Leonid Babushkin (1976) – geographer, agrometeorologist, honored scientist and technician of Uzbekistan (1960).
– 1907 – Daniel Bovet (1992) – Italian pharmacologist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1957).
– 1908 – Anatoly Lyapidevsky – Soviet pilot, major general of aviation, the first Hero of the Soviet Union
– 1910 – Akira Kurosawa (1998) – Japanese director, screenwriter, producer.
– 1923 – Hassler Whitney (1989) – American mathematician, one of the founders of the Singularity theory.
– 1915 – Vasiliy Zaitsev (1991) – Sniper of the 62nd Army of the Stalingrad Front, Hero of the Soviet Union.
– 1941 – Mukambar Rahimova – actress, director, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (2002).
– 1970 – Gianni Infantino – Swiss sports and football expert, 9th President of FIFA since February 26, 2016. His original profession is law.
– 1977 – Maxim Marinin – Russian figure skating master (doubles), Olympic champion (2006), two-time world champion, 5-time European champion.
– 1978 – Nicole Tom is an American film and theater actress.
– 1983 – Sir Mo Farah is a Somali-born British long-distance runner, 4-time Olympic champion.
– 1985 – Maryana Spivak – Russian film, theater and dubbing actress, director.
– 1988 – Jason Kenny – British cyclist, 7-time Olympic champion
– 1995 – Ester Ledecka – Czech snowboarder and mountain skier, two-time Olympic champion (2018).