Who was born on January 31 and what day is it?
HOLIDAYS:
🌏 International Day of Jewelers.
🌏 International Zebra Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇸 USA – National Hot Chocolate Day.
🇦🇹 Austria – Street Children’s Day.
🇳🇷 Nauru – Independence Day.
🇮🇳 India – Meher Baba Memorial Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1714 – Kunstkamera – “State Cabinet” museum was established in St. Petersburg, in the Summer Palace.
– 1729 – The first printed book in the Arabic alphabet was published in Istanbul.
– 1864 – Moscow Zoo, the first “public zoo” in Russia, was opened to visitors.
– 1865 – Dmitriy Mendeleev defended his thesis on “Mixing alcohol with water”.
– 1893 – “Coca-Cola” trademark was registered.
– 1918 – A collision between five British submarines kills hundreds.
– 1921 – a peasant uprising began in Siberia (Ishimskoe), the reason for which was dissatisfaction with the economic policy of the Soviet government.
– 1921 – the day when the building of Moscow AITU was established.
– 1924 – the final version of the first constitution of the USSR was approved at the 2nd Congress of Soviets of the USSR.
– 1929 – Leon Trotsky was exiled from the Soviet Union.
– 1943 – Field Marshal Paulius surrendered near Stalingrad.
– 1953 – More than 2,000 people died in a storm on the North Sea coast.
– 1958 – The Explorer-1 satellite detected the Earth’s radiation layer.
– 1965 – Republican children’s library was established.
– 1968 – The independent Republic of Nauru was established.
– 1971 – The American spacecraft “Apollo-14” was launched to the Moon.
– 1977 – The Pompidou Center began its work in Paris.
– 1989 – The American embassy in Kabul (Afghanistan) was closed.
– 1990 – the first McDonald’s in the territory of the USSR began its work.
– 2020 – Great Britain leaves the European Union.
– 2021 – Second protests in support of Alexei Navalny.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1543 – Tokugawa Ieyasu (1616) – Japanese ruler, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate dynasty.
– 1715 – Helvesius Claude Adrman (1771) – French philosopher, psychologist.
– 1769 – Andre Jacques Garnerin (1823) – French aeronaut, the world’s first parachutist.
– 1868 – Theodore William Richards (1928) – famous American chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1915).
– 1881 – Langmuir Irving (1957) – American physicist and chemist.
– 1896 – Sofya Yanovskaya (1966) – mathematician, philosopher, pedagogue, founder of the Soviet school of mathematical philosophy.
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– 1902 – Alva Myurdal (1986) – Swedish diplomat, politician, winner of the Nobel Prize (1982).
– 1911 – Vanga (1996) – Bulgarian soothsayer.
– 1935 – Kendzaburo Oe – Japanese writer, winner of the Nobel Prize (1994).
– 1938 – Beatrix – Queen of the Netherlands (since 1980).
– 1959 – Sergey Baburin – Russian politician, statesman.
– 1962 – Alexey Miller – Russian economist, chairman of the board of Gazprom.
– 1986 – Qin Kai is a Chinese diving master, two-time Olympic champion, multiple world champion.
– 1992 – Alexander Loginov – Russian biathlete, world champion (2020), 4-time European champion.
– 1993 – Ku Pong Chan – South Korean archer, two-time Olympic champion.