Who was born on January 23 and what events happened on that day?
🔹NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇵🇭 Philippines – First Philippine Republic Day.
🇹🇼 Taiwan – World Freedom Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Handwriting Day.
🇵🇳 Pitcairn Islands – Bounty Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Pie Day.
🇮🇳 India – Subhas Chandra Bose Day.
🇳🇿 New Zealand – Wellington Province Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1368 – Zhu Yuanzhang founded the Ming Empire.
– 1556 – Shaanxi (China) earthquake: 830 thousand people died.
– 1579 – Union of Utrecht was formed.
– 1719 – Charles VI recognized the sovereignty of Liechtenstein.
– 1755 – Russian Empress Elizabeth Petrovna signed a decree on the establishment of the first Russian university in Moscow.
– 1904 – The Norwegian city of Ålesund was burned down.
– 1912 – The International Opium Convention, the first international treaty on drug control, was signed in The Hague.
– 1918 – The decree of the Council of People’s Commissars of the RSFSR “On the separation of church and state, school and church” was published.
– 1950 – Jerusalem was declared the capital of Israel.
– 1954 – 14,000 prisoners of war from the Korean War returned to Taiwan.
– 1958 – The January Uprising in Venezuela.
– 1960 – Jacques Picard and Don Walsh descended to the Mariana Trench in the bathyscaphe “Trieste” – to a depth of 10,961 meters.
– 1992 – The National Guard of the Republic of Uzbekistan was established.
– 1992 – Diplomatic relations were established between Uzbekistan and Egypt.
– 1997 – The “Usto” Republican Special Creative Production Association – an association of masters of folk applied arts of the republic was established.
– 1997 – The Kamoliddin Behzod State Prize of the Republic of Uzbekistan was established.
– 2001 – Mass self-immolation in an alley in Beijing.
– 2003 – The last signal was received from NASA’s Pioneer 10 automatic interplanetary station.
– 2012 – The French Senate adopted a bill on criminal liability for denying the Armenian Genocide.
– 2014 – An exhibition of skulls opened in Tashkent.
– 2019 – Juan Guaidó, the head of the Venezuelan National Assembly, declared himself the acting president of Venezuela.
– 2021 – Demonstrations in many cities of Russia and the world in support of the arrested Alexei Navalny.
👉 BIRTHS:
– 1598 – Mansard François (1666) – French architect, one of the first representatives of 17th-century classicism.
– 1783 – Stendhal (Henri Marie Beyle) (1842) – French writer.
– 1840 – Ernst Abbe (1905) – German optical physicist, astronomer and inventor.
– 1862 – Gilbert David (1943) – German mathematician, professor (1893).
– 1870 – William Morgan (1942) – American physical education teacher, inventor of volleyball.
– 1873 – Prishvin Mikhail (1954) – Russian writer.
– 1876 – Diels Otto Paul German (1954) – German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (1950).
– 1881 – Protazanov Yakov (1945) – film director, Honored Artist of Russia (1935) and Uzbekistan (1943), one of the founders of Russian cinematography.
– 1907 – Hideki Yukawa (1981) – Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1949).
– 1925 – Lewis William Arthur (1991) – economist, Nobel Prize laureate (1979).
– 1928 – Jeanne Moreau (2017) – French actress.
– 1929 – John Charles Polyany – Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (1986).
– 1930 – William Pogue – American astronaut.
– 1957 – Caroline – Princess of Monaco, eldest daughter of Prince Rainier III and Hollywood movie star Grace Kelly.
– 1969 – Andrei Kanchelskis – famous former Russian football player.
– 1974 – Ikrom Berdiev – boxer, Master of Sports of the International Level (2002), “Pride of Uzbekistan” (2002).
– 1984 – Arjen Robben – Dutch football player.
– 2002 – Nodirbek Yakubbaev – Uzbek chess player, grandmaster (2019). Winner of the Uzbekistan Chess Championship (2016, 2018, 2020). Champion of the 44th Chess Olympiad, winner of the Medal of Honor of Uzbekistan.
