Who was born on March 29 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 World Marble Day.
🌏 International Mermaid Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇸 USA – Vietnam War Veterans Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day.
🇹🇼 Taiwan – Youth Day.
🇨🇫 MAR – Boganda Day.
🇲🇬 Madagascar – Martyrs’ Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 845 – Vikings raid and pillage Paris.
– 1410 – Guillaume II sold the lands of Sardinia to the King of Aragon.
– 1430 – Murad II’s troops captured Thessaloniki in the 8th year of the siege.
– 1461 – Battle of Tauton – The bloodiest battle of the War of the White and Red Roses.
– 1798 – The French announced the creation of the Helvetian Republic (Switzerland).
– 1807 – astronomer Olbres discovered the asteroid Vesta.
– 1848 – Revolutionary events in Germany: a liberal government was established in Berlin.
– 1848 – Niagara Falls froze over for 30 hours.
– 1864 – Great Britain ceded the Ionian Islands to Greece.
– 1873 – Leo Tolstoy began writing the novel “Anna Karenina”.
– 1886 – Wilhelm Steinies officially became the first world chess champion.
– 1886 – the birthday of Coca-Cola – the recipe for this famous drink in the world was created.
– 1891 – Alexander III decided to build the Trans-Siberian railway.
– 1911 – The Russian Olympic Committee was founded in St. Petersburg.
– 1927 – “Dry law” was abolished in the province of Ontario (Canada), replaced by government control.
– 1940 – the first high-quality paper money, protected against counterfeiting – wrapped with a thin metal thread – was developed in the Bank of England.
– 1947 – One of the biggest uprisings in the history of Madagascar took place.
– 1974 – The American spacecraft Mariner 10 photographed the planet Mercury.
– 1974 – Ceramic statues were found in the tomb of Xin Shihuangdi.
– 2004 – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania joined NATO.
– 2010 – terrorist attack in the Moscow subway.
– 2015 – I. Karimov won the election of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan held on the basis of alternative.
– 2018 – by the decision of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the name of the National Security Service was changed to the State Security Service.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1735 – Johann Carl August Museus (1787) – German writer, literary critic, philologist and pedagogue.
– 1790 – John Tyler (1862) – 10th President of the USA.
– 1849 – Vladimir Wagner (1934) – Russian biologist and psychologist. One of the representatives of comparative psychology.
– 1879 – Alan Henderson Gardiner (1963) is an English Egyptologist who discovered the Leyden Papyrus.
– 1899 – Lavrenty Beria (1953) – Soviet statesman, Stalin’s closest comrade.
– 1906 – Tamara Khanim (1991) – dancer, singer, actress and choreographer, People’s Artist of the USSR.
– 1919 – Eileen Heckart (2001) – American film actress.
– 1927 – John Wayne (2004) – English chemist and pharmacologist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1982).
– 1936 – Miraziz Azam – Uzbek poet, translator.
– 1943 – John Major – 72nd Prime Minister of Great Britain (1990-1997).
– 1946 – Bayat Mukhtorov (2015) – Uzbek sculptor and avant-garde artist, the first in Uzbekistan to use the methods of performance and happiness.
– 1955 – Brendan Gleeson – Irish actor, director.
– 1989 – Zarina Nizomiddinova – Uzbek actress and singer.
– 1991 – Irene – South Korean singer, rapper and actress.
– 1994 – Anastasia Kostenko – Russian model, 2nd place in “Miss Russia 2014” and participant of the international beauty contest “Miss World 2014” in London.