Who was born on January 25 and what happened?
On Friday, January 26, the 26th day of the year, there are 340 days left in the year
BORN TODAY
Politician Nicolae Ceausescu (1918-1989)
Guitarist Edward Van Halen (1955-2020)
Hockey player Wayne Gretzky (1961)
Soccer player and coach Jose Mourinho (1963)
– 1714 – Jean-Baptiste Pugal (1785) – French sculptor
– 1799 – Clapeyron Bernois Paul Emile (1864) – French physicist and engineer.
– 1831 – Anton de Bary (1888) – German botanist and founder of microbiologist, mycology and phytopathology.
– 1846 – Makovsky Vladimir (1920) is a Russian painter, a great master of the domestic genre in Russian painting.
– 1904 – Sean McBride (1988) – Irish politician and public figure, winner of the Nobel Prize (1974).
– 1911 – Kush Polycarp (1993) – American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1955).
– 1914 – Fazil Amirov (1979) – anatomist, Honored Scientist of Uzbekistan (1971).
– 1918 – Nicolae Ceaușescu (1989) – Romanian statesman and politician, President of Romania.
– 1921 – Yuri Ozerov (2001) – film director, People’s Artist of the USSR.
– 1921 – Akio Morita (1999) – Japanese businessman, founder of Sony.
– 1944 – Angela Davis – American human rights activist, communist activist, sociologist and author.
– 1961 – Wayne Gretzky is a Canadian hockey player, one of the most famous athletes of the 20th century.
– 1963 – Jose Mourinho – Portuguese football player, football coach, winner of many awards.
– 1967 – Cole Needham – co-founder and CEO of IMDb.
– 1971 – Aygun Kazimova – Azerbaijani singer.
– 1977 – Vincent Lamar Carter – American basketball player, Olympic champion.
– 1990 – Sergio Perez – Mexican racer, Formula 1 driver.
History of the day
Today, January 26, is the day when the first printed copy of the map of Russia was released.
The first map of Moscow lands was created on January 26, 1525.
The ancient Greek scientist Claudius Ptolemy compiled an extensive reference on the coordinates of various points and a textbook on mapping.
Ptolemy’s works were the pinnacle of ancient Greek cartographic knowledge.
The map of the Russian state was created after the Russian traveler Dmitriy Gerasimov’s “Writer’s Map of Russia” and it was compiled based on surveys and stories using the works of Ptolemy.
There are 248 maps in the archives of Ivan the Terrible, and during his reign, the first geodetic manual was written, “Geometry, or a book called Measurement by means of radii and compasses.”
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 International Clean Energy Day.
🌏 International Customs Day.
🌏 World Environmental Education Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan – Customs Day.
🇦🇺 Australia – Australia Day.
🇮🇸 Iceland – Men’s Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – State Audit Service Day.
🇵🇦 Panama – Day of Engineers and Architects.
🇱🇻 Latvia – International Recognition Day.
🇺🇬 Uganda – Independence Day.
🇵🇭 Philippines – Napoleon Abueva’s birthday.
🇮🇳 India – Republic Day.
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic – Duarte Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1340 – Edward III is proclaimed King of France.
– 1500 – Y. Pinson explored the Amazon.
– 1525 – The first map of Russia – the map of Moscow lands – was printed.
– 1582 – The Lebanese War ended.
– 1699 – The Ottoman Empire signed the Treaty of Karlovy Vary as a peace treaty with Austria, Venice, and the Kingdom of Poland.
– 1788 – the first settlement of Europeans in Australia – the city of Sydney.
– 1808 – “Roma Rebellion” took place in Australia.
– 1871 – Franco-Prussian War: Armistice between the besieged Paris garrison and Prussian troops.
– 1924 – Petrograd was renamed Leningrad by the decision of the 2nd Congress of Soviets.
– 1934 – A non-aggression pact was signed between Germany and Poland.
– 1939 – Neil Bohr announced that he had discovered the fission of uranium.
– 1943 – Kemerovo region was established.
– 1950 – The Republic of India, a British colony for 200 years, was declared.
– 1965 – Hindi became an official language in India.
– 1967 – In response to the expulsion of Chinese students from Moscow, the Soviet Union’s embassy in Beijing was arrested.
– 1980 – Diplomatic relations were established between Israel and Egypt.
– 1983 – “Lotus 1-2-3” spreadsheet was created in the USA.
– 1987 – Coca-Cola is recognized as the number 1 national beverage in America.
– 1992 – Diplomatic relations were established between Uzbekistan and Japan.
– 1992 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting US cities with nuclear weapons.
– 1997 – Aslan Maskhadov won the presidential elections in Chechnya with 65% of the vote.
– 2018 – Diplomatic relations were established between the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal and Uzbekistan.
– 2001 – A powerful earthquake in Western India killed at least 10,000 people.