Who was born on March 24 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 International Day of Whistleblowers.
🇺🇳 World Tuberculosis Day.
🇺🇳 Day of the right to establish the international truth about gross violations of human rights and dignity of victims.
🌏 Parovaz’s birthday.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇷🇸 Serbia – Day of remembrance for the victims of NATO bombing.
🇵🇱 Poland – National Life Day.
🇺🇬 Uganda – Tree Planting Day.
🇨🇩 DR Congo – Heroes’ Day.
🇦🇷 Argentina – Memorial Day for Truth and Justice.
🇲🇵 Northern Mariana Islands – Commonwealth Agreement Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1084 – German emperor Henry IV captures Rome.
– 1155 – Yuri Dolgoruky captured Kiev and ascended the throne.
– 1603 – King of Scotland ascended the throne of England under the name of James I.
– 1753 – The death penalty was abolished in the Russian Empire.
– 1794 – The liberation uprising began in Poland.
– 1801 – Russian Emperor Paul I was killed as a result of a conspiracy.
– 1802 – English inventor Richard Trevithick received the first patent for a steam engine.
– 1822 – William Church of England patented the first typewriter.
– 1882 – Robert Koch gave a sensational lecture – he managed to isolate the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.
– 1898 – the first American car was sold.
– 1917 – France, Great Britain and Italy recognized the Provisional Government of Russia.
– 1930 – the dwarf planet began to be called by its current name – Pluto.
– 1955 – The first offshore oil rig was built in the USA.
– 1972 – The premiere of the film “The Godfather”, one of the best films in the history of world cinematography, took place.
– 1973 – Pink Floyd released the album “The Dark Side of the Moon”.
– 1976 – Dirty War: The President of Argentina is kidnapped.
– 1990 – Islam Karimov was elected the President of the USSR.
– 1992 – Border troops of the Republic of Uzbekistan were established.
-1999 – NATO began bombing Yugoslavia.
-2005 – As a result of the “Tulip Revolution” in Kyrgyzstan, President Askar Akayev was expelled from the country.
– 2008 – The Olympic torch was lit in Beijing.
– 2014 – Inkha University was established in Tashkent.
– 2018 – In Yekaterinburg, the tallest abandoned building in the world – an unfinished TV tower – was demolished.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1808 – Maria Malibran (1836) – Spanish opera singer.
– 1871 – Alexander Schmidt (1939) – Soviet Orientalist-Arabologist.
– 1872 – Ordubadi Muhammad Said (1950) – Azerbaijani writer and dramatist, artist who served in Azerbaijan (1938).
– 1874 – Harry Houdini (1926) – American ophthalmologist.
– 1884 – Peter Debye (1966) – Dutch and American physicist and chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1936).
– 1891 – Sergey Vavilov (1951) – Russian physicist, public figure.
– 1903 – Adolf Butenandt (1995) – German chemist and biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1939).
– 1906 – Klaudia Shulzhenko – Soviet pop singer, theater and film actress, people’s artist.
– 1911 – Bernard Katz – English physiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1970).
– 1911 – Joseph Roland Barbera (2006) – American animator, director and producer.
– 1917 – Kendrew John Cowdery (1997) – English biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1962).
– 1920 – Vasily Stalin – Soviet military pilot, aviation lieutenant general, I.V. Stalin’s younger son.
– 1921 – Vasily Smyslov (2010) – Soviet and Russian chess player, 7th world champion.
– 1926 – Dario Do – Italian playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize (1997).
– 1930 – Steve McQueen (1980) – American film actor.
– 1940 – Shukur Kholmirzayev – Famous Uzbek writer, People’s Writer of Uzbekistan (1991).
– 1950 – Alexander Buynov – Russian pop singer, people’s artist.
– 1956 – Steven Antony Ballmer – CEO of Microsoft (2000-2014).
– 1969 – Ilir Meta – Albanian diplomat and politician, President of Albania (since 2017).
– 1970 – Lara Flynn Boyle – American film actress.