Who was born on May 24 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament.
🌏 European Parks Day.
🌏 World Schizophrenia Day.
👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇸 USA – National Aviation Maintenance Technician Day.
🇧🇿 Belize – Commonwealth Day.
🇪🇷 Eritrea – Independence Day.
🇪🇨 Ecuador – Day of the Battle of Pichincha.
🇧🇲 Bermuda – Bermuda Day.
🇧🇷 Brazil – Coffee Day.
👉 EVENTS:
-1032 – Ibn Sina observed and described the transit of Venus across the Sun.
– 1276 – Magnus I Ladulos is crowned king of Sweden.
– 1487 – Lambert Simnel, the hypocrite, was elected British monarch in Dublin Cathedral.
– 1571 – Crimean khan Davlat-Girey besieged the Moscow Kremlin, Moscow slobada and posad were completely destroyed.
– 1667 – France begins the Revolutionary War against Spain.
– 1798 – The Irish Rebellion organized by the United Irishmen begins.
– 1819 – the ship “Savannah” set sail across the Atlantic Ocean.
– 1822 – After the Battle of Pichincha, Antonio José Sucre wins, the territory of present-day Ecuador gains independence from Spain and becomes part of Colombia.
– 1829 – Nicholas I ascended the throne of Poland in Warsaw.
– 1844 – Morse sent a telegram from Washington to Baltimore using the Morse machine he created.
– 1856 – Potawatomi massacre organized by John Brown.
– 1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge was opened in New York.
– 1900 – Cruiser Aurora launched.
– 1925 – the first issue of the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda” was published.
– 1956 – The Eurovision Song Contest was held for the first time in history in Lugano, Switzerland.
– 1982 – Iran-Iraq War: The Iranian army liberated the city of Khurramshahr from Iraqi occupation.
-1993 – Eritrea became independent from Ethiopia.
– 1994 – the Embassy of Kazakhstan was opened in Tashkent.
– 1996 – The Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On the establishment of the national television and radio company of Uzbekistan and issues of its activity” was announced
– 2001 – the first article appeared on the Russian Wikipedia.
– 2006 – The Wikimapia project was launched
– 2020 – A short firefight took place on the Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan border
– 2022 – Massacre at Robb Elementary School in Texas
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– Mil. Av. 15 – Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus (19th year) – the commander of Tiberias, one of the famous commanders of Rome.
– 827 – Cyril Methodius – the founder of the Slavic alphabet.
– 1686 – Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit (1736) – German physicist, scientist who introduced mercury in the thermometer, inventor of the Fahrenheit scale.
– 1743 – Jean Paul Marat (1793) – one of the leaders of the Great French Revolution.
– 1819 – Queen Victoria (1901) – the last representative of the Hanoverian dynasty on the British throne (1837-1901).
– 1898 – Helen Brooke Taussig (1986) – doctor, founder of pediatric cardiology.
– 1905 – Mikhail Sholokhov (1984) – Russian Soviet writer, winner of the Nobel Prize (1965).
– 1937 – Quatboy Abdreimov – Karakalpak actor and director, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1974).
– 1940 – Joseph Brodsky (1996) – famous Russian poet, singer and actor, winner of the Nobel Prize (1987).
– 1941 – Bob Dylan – American singer, poet, writer and artist, winner of the Nobel Prize (2016).
– 1949 – James Broadbent – British film, theater and television actor.
– 1958 – Saidulla Moldakhanov – theater and film actor, Honored Artist of Uzbekistan (2003).
– 1960 – Christine Scott Thomas – English actress.
– 1961 – Abdulla Aripov – statesman of Uzbekistan, Prime Minister of the Republic.
– 1962 – Rustam Shoabdurahmanov – Mayor of Tashkent (2001-2005), Chairman of the National Olympic Committee of Uzbekistan (since 2019), Chairman of the Fencing Federation of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2017-2019).
– 1966 – Eric Cantona – French football player and film actor.
– 1973 – Ruslana – Ukrainian singer, winner of the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest, People’s Artist of Ukraine.
– 1975 – Mark Gagion is a Canadian short-track runner, three-time Olympic champion.
– 1994 – Emma McKeon – Australian swimmer, 5-time Olympic champion.