Who was born on March 27 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 World Theater Day.
🌏 Document Freedom Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇷🇺 Day of Russian National Guard troops.
🇮🇷 Iran – Theater Art Day.
🇲🇲 Myanmar – Armed Forces Day.
🇦🇴 Angola – Victory Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1111 – Russian troops led by Vladimir Monomakh defeated the Polovtsians on the banks of the Solnitsa River.
– 1330 – Ipatiev Monastery was founded.
– 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida.
– 1527 – Battle of Honua, in which Babur defeated an army of Rajputan princes.
– 1794 – It was decided to build the US Navy.
– 1841 – The first horse-powered steam engine was tested.
– 1854 – the Crimean War began.
– 1854 – Abraham Gessner patented kerosene in the USA.
– 1858 – the first women’s gymnasium in the Russian Empire was opened in St. Petersburg.
– 1860 – M. L. Byrne of New York patented the corkscrew.
– 1893 – The Longines watch company registered its logo.
– 1898 – Russia leases Port Arthur from China.
– 1918 – The Democratic Republic of Moldavia became part of the Kingdom of Romania.
– 1928 – The first football stamp was issued in the Netherlands.
– 1944 – 40 Jews were shot by the Gestapo in the Riga ghetto, and about 2,000 Jews were killed in Kaunas.
– 1953 – a large-scale amnesty was announced in the USSR.
– 1964 – 118 people died as a result of an earthquake in Alaska.
– 1968 – Yuri Gagarin died in a plane crash in Vladimir region.
– 1975 – Construction of the Alaska oil pipeline began.
– 1981 – “Solidarity” trade union organization organized a national strike in Poland.
– 1990 – The Sherlock Holmes Museum was opened in London.
-1992 – The Embassy of Uzbekistan in Saudi Arabia was opened.
– 1998 – NATO announced that it had begun training Albanian border guards to guard the border with Yugoslavia.
– 2008 – Launch of the Kosmos-3M rocket and the fourth spacecraft – the German SAR-Lupe satellite.
– 2011 – Russia switched to permanent summer time. The transition to summer and winter time was canceled by President Medvedev.
– 2016 – Terror attack in Lahore, 72 people died.
– 2020 – North Macedonia becomes the 30th member of NATO.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1824 – Johann Gittorf (1914) – German physicist who discovered the ion.
– 1845 – Wilhelm Roentgen (1923) – German physicist, winner of the first Nobel Prize (1901).
– 1847 – Otto Wallach (1931) – German chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1910).
– 1863 – Sir Henry Royce (1933) – English industrialist, founder of the Rolls-Royce company.
– 1868 – Patti Smith Hill (1946) – American teacher, author of the song “Happy Birthday to You”.
– 1871 – Mann Heinrich (1950) – German writer.
– 1881 – Arkady Averchenko (1925) – Russian satirical writer, humorist.
– 1886 – Sergei Kirov (1934) – Soviet politician and statesman
– 1886 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1969) – German architect.
– 1899 – Glorya Swenson (1983) – American film, theater and television actress.
– 1927 – Mstislav Rostropovich (2007) – cellist, conductor, public figure, People’s Artist (1966).
– 1948 – Alexei Zharkov (2006) – Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, People’s Artist of Russia.
– 1963 – Quentin Tarantino – American director, actor, screenwriter, producer.
– 1986 – Manuel Neuer – German professional football player, goalkeeper, world champion (2014).
– 1988 – Holliday Grainger – British actress.
– 1992 – Grant Hardy is a Scottish curler, world champion in curling among mixed teams.
– 1996 – Rosabella Laurenti Sellers – Italian-American actress.
– 1997 – Lisa is a South Korean rapper, singer, dancer and model.