Who was born on April 29 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 International Dance Day.
🌏 International Day of Immunology.
🌏 International Day of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
🌏 World Wishes Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan – Day of the city of Bishkek.
🇩🇰 Denmark – Princess Benedikta’s birthday.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Ukrainian Football Day.
🇨🇴 Colombia – Arbor Day.
🇨🇻 Cape Verde – Praia City Day.
🇯🇵 Japan – Emperor Showa Day.
🇳🇮 Argentina – Animal Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1050 – Council of Rome, where the views of Berengar Tursky are condemned.
– 1429 – An army led by Joan of Arc entered the besieged Orleans.
– 1624 – Louis XIII appointed Armand Richelieu as minister.
– 1770 – English traveler James Cook set foot in Australia for the first time.
– 1854 – The German sailing ship “Favorite” collided with the “Hespera” (USA) and sank, killing 201.
– 1882 – the world’s first trolleybus was launched in Berlin.
– 1884 – Oxford University agreed to give exams to female students.
– 1897 – English physicist Joseph Thomson announced the discovery of the electron at a meeting of the Royal Society of London.
– 1913 – Gideon Sundbeck, a Swedish electrical engineer who immigrated to the United States, received a patent for the invention now known as the “molnia”.
– 1923 – Army Command (later SSKA) was established.
– 1931 – the first experimental TV show was held in the USSR.
– 1945 – Dachau concentration camp was liberated by the Allies.
– 1961 – Surgeon Leonid Rogozov successfully performed an appendectomy.
-1975 – Withdrawal of US citizens from Hoshim.
– 1978 – Denmark abolished the death penalty.
– 1982 – China’s population exceeded one billion people.
– 1985 – the famous “Nike” birthday.
– 1986 – A fire broke out in the central library in Los Angeles, 350 thousand books were damaged.
-1995 – .uz domain was registered.
– 1996 – The Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, on the establishment of the state-owned joint-stock company “Uzbekkino” was announced.
– 2000 – Germany donated parts of the “Amber Room” to Russia.
– 2002 – In the city of Obninsk, the reactor of the world’s first Obninsk nuclear power plant was shut down forever.
– 2012 – the day of the invention of a new musical instrument called “Ludophone”.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1727 – Jean-Georges Noverre (1810) – French choreographer, one of the founders of ballet.
– 1785 – Carl Dresz (1851) – German inventor, dresina is named after him.
– 1818 – Alexander II (1881) – Emperor of Russia (1855-1881)
– 1854 – Henri Poincaré (1912) – French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and philosopher.
– 1885 – Egon Erwin Kish (1848) – Czech writer and journalist.
– 1893 – Yuri Harold Clayton (1981) – American physical chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1934).
– 1901- Hirohito (1989) – Emperor of Japan (1926-1989).
– 1906 – Jubanov Ahmad (1968) – Kazakh musicologist, composer and conductor, one of the founders of Kazakh compositional music and musicology.
– 1917 – Celeste Holm (2012) – American film actress.
– 1940 – Bayram Matjonov – Karakalpak singer (lyric baritone) and director, People’s Artist of Karakalpakstan (1974), Bashkirdistan (1978), Uzbekistan (1982).
– 1945 – Sharofiddin Yusupov – a potter, successor of the dynasty, a major representative of the modern Rishton pottery school, Honored Cultural Worker of Uzbekistan (1991).
– 1957 – Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis – English actor with British and Irish citizenship.
– 1958 – Michelle Pfeiffer – American actress, producer and businesswoman.
– 1968 – Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic – Croatian politician and diplomat, president of the country (2015-2020).
– 1970 – Uma Thurman is a famous Hollywood actress.
– 1970 – Andre Agassi is a famous American tennis player.
– 2007 – Sofia – Infanta of Spain, youngest daughter of King Philip VI of Spain.