Who was born on May 4 and what day is it?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 International Day of Firefighters.
🌏 Collapsible umbrella birthday.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇸 USA – National Fitness Day.
🇵🇭 Philippines – Ilagan Day.
🇳🇱 Netherlands – Memorial Day.
🇨🇳 China – Youth Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Bird Day.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan – Tax Authorities Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Black Authors Day.
🇹🇼 Taiwan – Literature Day.
🇮🇳 India – Miners’ Day.
🇵🇱 Poland – Firefighters Day.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan – Day of Civil Aviation Employees.
🇮🇷 Iran – martyrdom of Imam Jafar Sadiq.
🇳🇦 Namibia – Cassinga Day.
🇯🇵 Japan – Plant Day.
🇹🇭 Thailand – Coronation Day.
🇱🇻 Latvia – Independence Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1113 – Vladimir Monomakh ascended the throne of the Grand Duke of Kiev.
– 1715 – The first collapsible umbrellas were produced in Paris.
1776 – the independence of the island of Rhode Island (now the US state) was declared.
1783 – English astronomer William Herschel noticed red lightning on the moon.
– 1807 – The Treaty of Finkenstein is signed between France and Persia, which begins the Franco-Persian alliance against England and Russia.
– 1838 – Cultural figures freed Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko from serfdom.
– 1848 – Opening of the Constituent Assembly of France.
– 1878 – Thomas Edison first demonstrated his invention, the phonograph.
– 1896 – The first cinema screenings in Russia began at the Aquarium Park in St. Petersburg.
– 1904 – The first generation of “Rolls-Royce” cars was produced in England by the partnership of Henry Royce and Charles Rolls.
– 1904 – construction of the Panama Canal began.
– 1912 – Italy occupied the island of Rhodes.
– 1919 – A student uprising began in China.
– 1924 – The VIII Olympic Games began in Paris.
– 1932 – Al Capone is arrested for tax evasion.
– 1961 – a decision was made to strengthen the fight against greed in the USSR.
– 1966 – a protocol was signed on the participation of the FIAT concern in the creation of an automobile manufacturing enterprise in the USSR.
– 1979 – Margaret Thatcher became the Prime Minister of Great Britain and the first woman in this position.
– 1986 – The evacuation zone around Chernobyl was expanded to 30 kilometers.
– 1996 – The State Property Management Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan was established.
– 2000 – the first appearance of the “I love you” virus.
– 2001 – Rules for walking dogs in Moscow were approved.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1006 – Abdullah Ansari (1089) – Famous mystic sheikh.
– 1655 – Bartolomeo Cristofori (1731) – Italian music master, founder of the piano.
– 1772 – Friedrich Brockhaus (1823) – German book publisher, founder of the Brockhaus encyclopedia publishing house.
– 1825 – Thomas Huxley (1895) – English zoologist, paleontologist, naturalist.
– 1827 – John Henning Speke (1864) – British Indian Army officer, explored Africa, discovered Lake Victoria and the source of the White Nile in 1858.
– 1880 – Bruno Taut (1938) – German architect and urban planner.
– 1881 – Alexander Kerensky (1970) – Russian political and public figure.
– 1899 – Fritz von Opel (1971) – a German automobile manufacturer, who laid the foundation stone of the Opel company.
– 1905 – Boris Nadezhdin (1961) – composer and pedagogue, Honored Artist of Uzbekistan (1950).
– 1912 – Nikolai Blokhin (1993) – surgeon-oncologist, president of the International Cancer Society (since 1966), honorary president of this society (since 1970).
– 1928 – Muhammad Hosni Mubarak (2020) – President of Egypt (1981-2011).
– 1929 – Audrey Hepburn (1993) – British and American film actress, Oscar winner.
– 1971 – Leonid Slutsky – head coach of the Russian national football team.
– 1977 – Jujanna Vóres – Hungarian athlete, Olympic champion in modern pentathlon (2004), world and European champion many times.
– 1987 – Francesc Fabregas – Spanish football player, world (2010) and European champion (2008, 2012).
– 1989 – Daniel Dyurta – Hungarian swimmer, Olympic champion (2012), three-time world champion, member of the IOC.
– 1989 – Burju Biricik – Turkish actress.
– 1997 – Shokhsanamkhon Toshpolatova – Uzbek swimmer-paralympian, member of the national team of Uzbekistan.