Who was born on May 25 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🔔 Last call day in CIS countries and Uzbekistan.
🌏 Day of towels.
🌍 International Missing Children’s Day.
🌏 World Thyroid Day.
🌍 International plastic free day.
🌏 International Skin Pigmentation Day.
👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇵🇸 Jordan – Independence Day.
🇱🇧 Lebanon – Freedom Day.
🇵🇪 Peru – Day of Clowns.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan – Day of standardization and metrology employees.
🇮🇷 Iran – Day of Dezful Resistance.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Day of publishing, printing and book distribution workers.
🇦🇷 Argentina – First National Government Day.
🇬🇲 Gambia, 🇬🇳 Guinea, 🇬🇭 Ghana,t 🇱🇸 Lesotho, 🇲🇱 Mali, 🇲🇷 Mauritania, 🇳🇦 Namibia, 🇿🇲 Zambia, 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe – Africa Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Day of Philologists.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1085 – Alfonso VI the Brave captures Toledo from the Muslims.
– 1521 – The case of the Worms Reichstag, which declared Martin Luther a martyr and a criminal, was completed.
– 1579 – the day when the Don Cossacks were founded.
– 1659 – Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland Richard Cromwell resigned.
– 1682 – the archery revolution began in Moscow.
– 1787 – The Constitutional Convention convened in Philadelphia under the chairmanship of George Washington to draft the US Constitution.
– 1810 – Argentina gained independence from Spain.
– 1833 – The Chilean constitution was adopted.
– 1865 – the first university opened in Odessa.
– 1869 – the building of the Vienna Opera House was opened.
– 1895 – Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years of hard labor.
– 1901 – The famous “River Plate” team of Argentina was founded.
– 1935 – Jessie Owens sets a world record in athletics.
– 1946 – Jordan declared its independence.
– 1957 – the largest hotel in the USSR – “Ukraine” was opened.
– 1963 – The African Union was established at the 1st conference with the participation of the heads of governments of African countries organized in Addis Ababa, and this day was declared by the UN as “African Independence Day”.
– 1994 – International fashion fair was held in Tashkent.
– 1994 – Khakassia adopted its first constitution.
– 2009 – North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test with a capacity of 20 kilotons
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1803 – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1882) – American poet, philosopher, founder of the theory of transcendentalism.
– 1810 – Pierre Edmond Baysier (1885) – Swiss botanist and traveler, described 3600 new plant species.
– 1860 – James Kettel (1944) is a psychologist, one of the major representatives of differential psychology.
– 1865 – Peter Zeeman (1943) – Dutch physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1902).
– 1865 – John Riley Mott (1955) – American public and religious figure, winner of the Nobel Prize (1946).
– 1892 – Josip Broz Tito (1980) – a famous politician, former President of the People’s Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
– 1912 – Sabir Muhamedov (1978) – dramatist, public figure, Honored Artist of Uzbekistan (1965).
– 1913 – Donald McLean (died 1983), Soviet intelligence officer, member of the Cambridge Five.
– 1919 – Mahbuba Kadirova – literary critic and textologist, Honored Scientist of Uzbekistan (1995).
– 1921 – Jack Steinberger – American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1988).
– 1926 – Farogat Rahmatova (2014) – actress and singer, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1964).
– 1939 – Sir Ian Murray McKellen – British actor.
– 1971 – Kristina Orbakaite – Russian pop singer.
– 1971 – Justin Henry is an American film actor.
– 1985 – Demba Ba – Senegalese football player.