Who was born on February 4 and what day is it?

Who was born on February 4 and what day is it?

HOLIDAYS:

🇺🇳 World Cancer Day.
🇺🇳 International Human Brotherhood Day.

🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:

🇵🇭 Philippines – Philippine-American War Memorial Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Hemp Day.
🇺🇸 USA – USO Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Rosa Parks Day.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka – Independence Day.
🇦🇴 Angola – Freedom Movement Day.
🇹🇼 Taiwan – Farmers Day.

👉 EVENTS:

– 634 – First Arab-Byzantine War: Muslim forces under Amr ibn al-As defeat the Byzantines at the Battle of Datin.
– 900 – Louis IV the Child is enthroned as King of the East Franks at the Council of Forchheim.
– 960 – Tai Su became the emperor of China. The Sun Dynasty began.
– 1169 – An earthquake in eastern Sicily kills 15,000.
– 1194 – Henry VI of Hohenstaufen freed King Richard I of England in return for a ransom.
– 1348 – In Japan, the forces of the Northern Palace defeat the forces of the Southern Palace at the Battle of Shijonawata.
– 1508 – In Trento, Maximilian Habsburg received the title of Holy Roman Emperor.
– 1703 – Ako’s Revenge.
– 1719 – Peter I issued a decree on conducting the first census of the population of the Russian Empire.
– 1755 – Empress Elizaveta Petrovna signed a decree on the establishment of Moscow University.
– 1789 – George Washington was elected the first US president.
– 1794 – French Revolution: The National Convention abolished slavery in France and its colonies.
– 1797 – The city of Riobamba in Ecuador was completely destroyed by an earthquake. About 40 thousand people died.
– 1824 – Charles Goodrich, an American inventor and entrepreneur, introduced rubber bands to the public in Boston.
– 1857 – Neanderthal Day: The Neanderthal was first introduced to the scientific community.
– 1858 – German Goldschmidt discovered asteroid Europa 52.
– 1861 – The Confederate States of America was founded.
– 1899 – Wake Atoll is annexed by the United States as no man’s land.
– 1899 – The Philippine-American War begins.
– 1899 – “Werder” football club of Bremen (Germany) was founded.
– 1911 – Rolls-Royce installed the emblem for their cars.
– 1915 – World War I: Germany declares a naval blockade of the British Isles, marking the beginning of unrestricted submarine warfare.
– 1921 – Baron Ungern attacked and liberated Urga, the capital of Mongolia, from Chinese troops.
– 1944 – American scientists proved that DNA performs the task of storing and transmitting hereditary characteristics in living organisms.
– 1945 – The Crimean Conference began.
– 1945 – Belgium was completely liberated from German occupation.
– 1948 – Sri Lanka’s independence was declared.
– 1949 – Shahanshah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was assassinated in Iran.
– 1961 – the liberation war began in Angola.
– 1971 – Rolls-Royce Limited, a British manufacturer of automobile and aircraft engines, was nationalized as a result of bankruptcy.
– 1976 – XII Winter Olympic Games opened in Innsbruck (Austria).
– 1977 – The national airline of Kenya, Kenya Airways, was established.
– 1980 – Abulhasan Banisadr became the first president of Iran.
– 1992 – Hugo Chávez attempted a coup in Venezuela.
– 1994 – computer communication network (UzPAK since 1996) was established in Tashkent.
– 1994 – Uzbekistan became a member of the International Automobile Transport Association.
– 1997 – the new Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan came into force.
– 1998 – Foundation “Ustoz” was established.

👉 EVENTS:

– 2003 – The Union Republic of Yugoslavia was dissolved, the state of Serbia and Montenegro was established in its place, and the constitution of Serbia and Montenegro was adopted.
– 2004 – Facebook launched.
– 2005 – The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (375 deputies) approved Yulia Tymoshenko as the Prime Minister of Ukraine by a majority vote.
– 2009 – The British Navy’s HMS Vanguard and the French nuclear submarine Le Triomphant (both with WMDs on board) collide underwater in the Atlantic Ocean.
– 2022 – Opening of the XXIV Winter Olympic Games in Beijing (PRC).

👉 BIRTHDAYS:

– 1494 – Francois Rabelais (1553) is a French writer, one of the most famous satirists.
– 1682 – Johann Friedrich Böttger (1719) – German chemist, the first European to obtain white porcelain.
– 1746 – Tadeusz Kostyushko (1817) – Polish national hero, military and political figure.
– 1799 – Juan Batista de Almeida Garrett (1854) – Portuguese poet, playwright and politician.
– 1808 – Josef Kaetán Thiel (1856) – Czech dramatist and poet, author of the text of the Czech national anthem.
– 1873 – Mikhail Prishvin (1954) – Russian Soviet writer, publicist.
– 1875 – Ludwig Prandthal – (1953) – German mechanic and physicist, one of the founders of aerodynamics.
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– 1881 – Kliment Voroshilov (1969) – Soviet state, party and military figure, Marshal of the Soviet Union.
– 1900 – Jacques Préver (1977) – French poet, dramatist, screenwriter.
– 1901 – Yepisov Ivan (1963) – opera singer (bass), People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1952). Has a full-range, pleasant voice.
– 1902 – Manuel Alvarez Bravo (2002) – famous Mexican photographer.
– 1903 – Simo Bayich (1942) – partisan, national hero of Yugoslavia.
– 1906 – Clyde William Tombo (1997) – American astronomer, discovered Pluto.
– 1913 – Rosa Parks (2005) – American social activist, pioneer of the civil rights movement of black people in the United States.
– 1945 – Polat Bulbul son – Soviet and Azerbaijani singer, composer, politician and diplomat.
– 1947 – Abirqul Botayev (2002) – historian, scientist and museologist, master of public education of the USSR. In 1984, he founded the Museum of History and Local History in Samarkand province.
– 1948 – Alice Cooper (real name – Vincent Fourne) – American rock musician.
– 1973 – Oscar de La Hoya – American boxer, Olympic champion (1992), world champion.
– 1975 – Natalie Jane Imbruglia – Australian singer and actress.
– 1985 – Leslie (Leslie Burgoin) is a French R’n’B singer.
– 1989 – Valentina Gunina – Russian chess player, grandmaster.
– 1995 – Lisa Vittozzi – Italian biathlete.