Who was born on April 4 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – International Mine Awareness and Mine Action Day.
🌏 International Carrot Day.
🌏 World Rat Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇸 USA – School Librarian Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Vitamin C Day.
🇹🇼 Taiwan – Children’s Day.
🇸🇳 Senegal – Independence Day.
🇦🇴 Angola – Day of Peace.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1297 – The Pope gives Corsica and Sardinia to the King of Aragon.
– 1350 – Poland and Hungary divide Galicia-Volhynia between them.
– 1500 – P. Cabral discovered Brazil.
– 1581 – Elizabeth I knighted Francis Drake.
– 1753 – the death penalty was abolished in Russia by the decision of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna.
– 1785 – English inventor Edmund Cartwright received a patent for a foot-operated weaving machine.
– 1790 – France and Algeria sign a 100-year peace treaty.
– 1850 – Los Angeles becomes a city.
– 1896 – After the discovery of gold rocks, the “gold rush” begins in the Yukon.
– 1914 – The first issue of “Sadoi Turkistan” newspaper was published.
– 1920 – with the “efforts” of the Russian Bolsheviks, the Young Khiva Party was disbanded and replaced by the Khorezm Communist Party.
– 1932 – American scientist King was the first to isolate vitamin C (ascorbic acid).
– 1947 – The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) was established.
– 1949 – The NATO agreement was concluded between the USA, Canada, Great Britain, France and 8 other countries.
– 1956 – after a long discussion, “Basic rules of Uzbek orthography” were approved.
– 1959 – the united state of Sudan and Senegal was formed (they separated after a year and a half).
– 1964 – The Beatles hit the top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
– 1968 – Martin Luther King is assassinated.
– 1973 – The World Trade Center was opened in New York (Manhattan).
– 1983 – American space shuttle “Challenger” made its first flight.
– 1992 – The Republic of Madagascar recognized the sovereignty of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
– 1993 – the first iron ore mine in Uzbekistan was opened in Jizzakh region.
– 1994 – Netscape Communications (then called Mosaic Communications Corporation) was founded.
– 2002 – “Urban Planning Code” of the Republic of Uzbekistan was approved.
– 2004 – Shiite uprising began in Iraq.
– 2017 – Chemical weapons were used in the city of Khan Sheikhoun (Syria).
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1707 – Leonard Euler (1783) – Swiss mathematician, mechanic and physicist.
– 1818 – Thomas Mayne Read (1883) – English writer.
– 1823 – Carl Siemens (1883) – German and English engineer, industrialist and inventor.
– 1928 – Malik Abdusamatov (2008) – Soviet and Uzbek orientalist-Iranian, candidate of philological sciences, associate professor.
– 1938 – Ilya Reznik – Soviet and Russian poet and songwriter, screenwriter, People’s Artist of Russia.
– 1947 – Rustamkhan Salihov – biochemist scientist, scientist of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2003).
– 1947 – Makhset Khojaniyozov – opera singer (bass), People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1993), Karakalpakstan (1980), Tatarstan (1981).
– 1949 – Shing-Tung Yau – Chinese and American mathematician.
– 1965 – Robert John Downey Jr. – American actor, producer and musician.
– 1979 – Heath Ledger (2008) – famous Australian actor.
– 1983 – Amanda Righetti – American actress and film producer.
– 1986 – Maurice Manifika – French skier, several times Olympic and world medalist.
– 1987 – Sami Khedira – a German football player of Tunisian origin.
– 1999 – Husniddin Alikulov – Uzbek football player, defender of “Rizespor” club and the national football team of Uzbekistan.