Who was born on April 24 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 Stop Food Waste Day.
🌎 World Laboratory Animal Day.
🌎 International Sculpture Day.
🇺🇳 International Day of Diplomacy for Multilateralism and Peace.
🌏 International Noise Awareness Day.
🌎 International Guide Dog Day.
🌏 Sparkling water birthday.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇨🇳 China – Cosmonautics Day.
🇮🇳 India – Local Self-Government Day.
🇳🇵 Nepal – Democracy Day.
🇳🇪 Niger – Concorde Day.
🇦🇲 Armenia – Armenian Genocide Memorial Day.
🇬🇲 Gambia – Republic Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1547 – Battle of Mühlberg, ending the Schmalkaldic War.
– 1704 – Boston News Letter, the first regular newspaper of the period when the USA was a colony, was published in Boston.
– 1771 – An 85-meter tsunami hit Isikagi Island in Japan.
– 1800 – The Library of Congress opens.
– 1833 – Carbonated water is patented in the USA.
1846 – The Mexican-American War begins.
– 1867 – Turkestan Governor General headed by K.P. Von Kaufman was established.
– 1877 – Russian-Turkish war.
– 1884 – Namibia is declared a German colony.
– 1898 – Spain declares war on the United States.
– 1915 – The Turkish government began executing, arresting, and deporting Armenian intellectuals in Constantinople. Later, this date became the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Armenian Genocide.
– 1916 – A rebellion against British colonial rule began in Ireland.
– 1919 – The Art Gallery of Toronto is established.
– 1926 – a neutrality agreement was concluded between the USSR and Germany.
– 1941 – World War II: Great Britain begins to withdraw its troops from Greece.
– 1950 – Transjordan was renamed the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
– 1953 – Winston Churchill was knighted.
– 1961 – the ship “Vaza” was brought out from the bottom of the sea.
– 1962 – In the USA, for the first time in the world, the transmission of long-distance television programs via satellite was launched.
– 1968 – Mauritius joined the UN.
– 1970 – The Gambia became a republic.
– 1970 – China launched its first satellite.
– 2001 – “Kamolot” youth social movement was established in Uzbekistan.
– 2003 – Windows Server 2003 is released.
– 2004 – The US lifted the economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years ago.
– 2009 – General Motors officially announced the end of production of Pontiac cars and the elimination of the brand by 2010.
– 2013 – Building collapse in Savar (Bangladesh), 1127 people died, more than 2500 people were injured.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1226 – Bahauddin Muhammad-i Walad (1312) – Persian Sufi poet, founder of Mawlawiya Sufi order.
– 1620 – John Graunt (1674) – English statistician, founder of demography.
– 1743 – Edmund Cartwright (1823) – English inventor who invented the mechanical machine.
– 1791 – Nikolai Bestuzhev (1855) – Decembrist, historian of the Russian fleet, artist.
– 1845 – Carl Spitteler (1924) – Swiss writer, winner of the Nobel Prize (1919).
– 1899 – Oscar Zarissky (1986) – Russian-born American mathematician.
– 1926 – Tavakkal Kadyrov (1996) – People’s Artist of Uzbekistan.
– 1931 – Algimantas Chetkauskas – graphic artist, Honored Artist of Uzbekistan (1981).
– 1942 – Barbra Streisand – American singer, actress, director and poet.
– 1954 – Abdugani Karimov – painter, People’s Master of Uzbekistan (2005).
– 1982 – Oscar Kelly Brienne Clarkson – American singer and actress.
– 1982 – Irina Chashina – Russian athlete, three-time world champion in rhythmic gymnastics, six-time European champion.
– 1992 – Rafaela Silva – Brazilian judoka, Olympic (2016) and world champion.
– 1995 – Luiza Rasulova – Uzbek actress.
– 1996 – Ashley Barty is an Australian tennis player, the first racket of the world individually.
– 2001 – Anastasia Mishina – Russian figure skating (pair skating) master, world champion (2021).