Who was born on February 28 and what day is it?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 World No Facebook Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia, 🇲🇦 Morocco, 🇦🇪 UAE, 🇧🇭 Bahrain, 🇹🇳 Tunisia, 🇪🇬 Egypt, 🇩🇿 Algeria, 🇯🇴 Jordan, 🇱🇾 Libya, 🇾🇪 Yemen, 🇴🇲 Oman – Teacher’s Day.
🇮🇳 India – Science Day.
🇪🇬 Egypt – Independence Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Total Sleep Day.
🇹🇼 Taiwan – Day of Remembrance and Peace.
🇦🇲 Armenia – Day of Remembrance of Murder Victims.
🇪🇸 Spain – Andalusia Day.
🇫🇮 Finland – Kalevala Day.
🇧🇯 Benin – People’s Sovereignty Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1066 – Westminster Abbey was opened in England.
– 1732 – the first cadet corps was opened in St. Petersburg.
– 1825 – a convention was drawn up to delimit the possessions of Russia and England in North America.
– 1835 – “Kalevala” epic was published.
– 1854 – The Republican Party was founded in the USA.
– 1913 – Danish physicist Niels Bohr created the theory of the internal structure of the hydrogen atom.
– 1922 – Egypt gained independence from Great Britain.
– 1933 – In Germany, the decree of the President of the Reich on the protection of the people and the state was announced, which abolished civil rights.
– 1935 – Wallace Carozers invented nylon.
– 1956 – A computer network cable was patented in the USA.
– 1975 – In Loma, the European Economic Community signed the first Loma Convention on Economic and Trade Relations with 46 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACT countries).
– 1989 – A decision was made to celebrate Nowruz in Uzbekistan.
– 1991 – The war in the Persian Gulf ended.
– 1992 – It was announced that the Republic of Serbia was established in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
– 1995 – International privatization and investment bank of Uzbekistan – “Uzprivatbank” started its activity.
– 1996 – Russia joined the Council of Europe.
– 1998 – Kosovo war started.
– 2010 – The closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics was held at the BBC Place stadium in Vancouver (Canada).
– 2013 – Benedict XVI abdicated.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 772 – Bo Xuyi (846) is a Chinese poet.
– 1395 – Amir Temur embarked on the second major campaign against Tokhtamish, the ruler of the Golden Horde.
– 1533 – Michel Montaigne (1592) – French writer, Renaissance philosopher.
– 1663 – Thomas Newcomen (1729) – English inventor.
– 1683 – René Reaumur (1757) – French naturalist, physicist and mathematician.
– 1690 – Alexei Petrovich (1718) is the heir to the Russian throne, the eldest son of Tsar Peter I.
– 1863 – Vernadsky Vladimir (1945) – naturalist, mineralogist and crystallographer; one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, radiogeology and the biosphere.
– 1864 – Ftabatei Simei (Hasegawa Tasunoske) (1909) – Japanese writer.
– 1887 – Ibrohimov Galimjon – (1938) – Tatar writer, scientist, public figure, one of the founders of modern Tatar literature.
– 1896 – Philip Hench (1965) – American rheumatologist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1950).
– 1901 – Linus Pauling (1994) – American chemist and crystallographer, public figure, two-time winner of the Nobel Prize (1954, 1962).
– 1915 – Peter Medavar (1987) – English biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1960).
– 1925 – Louis Nirenberg – American and Canadian mathematician, awarded the Abel Prize (2015).
– 1930 – Leon Neil Cooper – American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1972).
– 1954 – Jean Bourgain (2018) – Belgian mathematician.
– 1962 – Abduqayum Yoldosh – Uzbek writer.
– 1978 – Benjamin Reich – Austrian mountain skier, two-time Olympic champion in 2006, three-time world champion.
– 1995 – Madison Beaty – American actress.
– 1999 – Luka Doncic – Slovenian basketball player, European champion (2017).
– 2003 – Layla Sobirova – Uzbek freestyle wrestler.