Who was born on March 31, what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 International Backup Day.
🌏 Eiffel Tower Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇮🇷 Iran – Ali’s martyrdom day.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan – Day of Chemical Industry Employees.
🇹🇭 Thailand – King Nangklao Memorial Day.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan – Azerbaijani Genocide Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Cesar Chavez Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Anesthesia Tech Day.
🇫🇲 Micronesia – Day of Micronesian Culture and Traditions.
🇻🇮 US Virgin Islands – Transfer Day.
🇲🇹 Malta – Freedom Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1284 – Bishop Ely founded Peterhouse, now the smallest and smallest college.
– 1770 – James Cook explored New Zealand and went to Australia.
– 1831 – Quebec and Montreal received city status.
-1856 – Jews were forbidden to serve in the Russian fleet.
– 1889 – The Eiffel Tower was opened.
– 1893 – Whitcomb Judson, an American, invented a new clothes fastener, the “zipper”.
– 1900 – France passed a law limiting working hours to 11 hours for women and children.
– 1900 – The first advertisements about cars appeared in American newspapers.
– 1901 – the 1st car named “Mercedes” was produced.
– 1918 – The USA was one of the first to switch to summer time.
– 1918 – Inter-ethnic conflicts broke out in Baku.
– 1923 – Mussolini set the working time to 8 hours in Italy.
– 1936 – An exhibition of degenerative art (surrealism, impressionism, abstractionism, etc.) was opened in Munich.
– 1940 – La Guardia Airport opened in New York.
– 1954 – USSR applied to join NATO. But this offer was rejected.
– 1967 – when France left NATO, its headquarters was moved from Paris to Brussels.
– 1968 – “Black Government” demanded the establishment of a New African state in the south of the USA.
– 1991 – it was decided to liquidate the military structures of the Warsaw Pact Organization.
– 1991 – the first multi-party elections were held in Albania.
– 1991 – In Georgia, 99 percent of the population voted for independence in a referendum.
– 1999 – One of the most popular science fiction films – The Matrix was released.
– 2004 – The TAR-21 Tavor assault rifle was adopted by the Israel Defense Forces.
– 2005 – The dwarf planet Makemake was discovered.
– 2019 – the first round of presidential elections in Ukraine.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1519 – Henry II (1559) – King of France (1547-1559).
– 1596 – René Descartes (1650) – French philosopher, mathematician, physicist, founder of analytical geometry.
– 1685 – Johann Sebastian Bach (1750) is a great German composer.
– 1732 – Franz Joseph Haydn (1809) – Austrian composer, one of the greatest musicians of the Classical period.
– 1811 – Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1899) – German chemist, discovered the elements cesium in 1860 and rubidium in 1861.
– 1882 – Korney Chukovsky (1969) – Russian Soviet poet, publicist, literary critic, translator, children’s writer.
– 1890 – William Lawrence Bragg (1971) – English physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1915).
– 1908 – Abdurazzak Mavlanov (1975) – Soviet Union party leader, chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers (1950-1951).
– 1914 – Octavio Paz (1998) – Mexican poet, winner of the Nobel Prize (1990).
– 1927 – Cesar Estrada Chavez (1993) – American human rights defender.
– 1934 – Carlo Rubbia – Italian physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1984).
– 1934 – Shirley Jones – American film actress and singer.
– 1938 – Alexander Zbruyev – famous Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, People’s Artist of the RSFSR.
– 1948 – Vladimir Vinokur – famous Soviet and Russian singer, TV presenter, hobbyist.
– 1954 – Laima Vaikule – Latvian and Russian pop singer, actress.
– 1971 – Pavel Bure – famous Soviet and Russian ice hockey player.
– 1972 – Alyona Babenko – theater and film actress.