Who was born on April 5 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 International Day of Conscience.
🌎 International Soup Day.
🌎 First contact day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇵🇸 Palestine – Children’s Day.
🇮🇷 Iran – Jerusalem Day.
🇵🇭 Philippines – Pangasinan Day.
🇮🇳 India – Jagjivan Ram’s birthday.
🇰🇷 South Korea – Arbor Day.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan – Day of Penal System Employees.
🇮🇳 India – National Maritime Day.
🇭🇰 Hong Kong, 🇲🇴 Macau, 🇨🇳 China, 🇹🇼 Taiwan – Qingming Festival.
👉 EVENTS:
56 BC – In Lucca, Roman triumvirs Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey divide power among themselves (First Roman Triumvirate).
– 823 – In Rome, Pope Paschal I crowned Lothar I as King of Italy.
– 1242 – Battle of Lake Chud.
– 1340 – An Arab fleet defeats a Spanish squadron in the Straits of Gibraltar.
– 1453 – Sultan Mahmud II begins the siege of Constantinople.
– 1705 – by order of Peter I, formation of a regular army was started in the Russian Empire.
– 1722 – Jacob Roggeven discovered Easter Island.
– 1792 – George Washington used the first presidential veto in US history.
– 1795 – France and Prussia signed a peace treaty in Basel.
– 1815 – Tambora volcano erupted.
– 1868 – Stapler was patented in England.
– 1896 – The first modern Olympic Games began in Athens.
– 1918 – Military communication service was established in Russia.
– 1955 – Winston Churchill resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
– 1966 – British Boeing 707 crashed on Mount Fuji (Japan). 124 people died.
– 1976 – For the first time in history, the pound sterling fell below $2 against the US currency.
– 1977 – VAZ-2121 “Niva” car was produced for the first time.
– 1980 – the USSR and Afghanistan signed an agreement on the presence of a contingent of Soviet troops in Afghanistan.
– 1993 – “Lukoil” oil company was established.
– 1998 – the longest suspension bridge in the world was completed.
– 2004 – The first battle for Fallujah began in Iraq.
– 2005 – Askar Akayev resigned as the president of Kyrgyzstan.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1588 – Thomas Hobbes (1679) – English philosopher and mathematician.
– 1622 – Vincenzo Viviani (1703) – Italian mathematician and physicist, student of Galileo Galilei.
– 1656 – Nikita Demidov (1725) – Russian industrialist, the founder of the Ural mountain industrialist dynasty.
– 1827 – Joseph Lister (1912) – an English surgeon who introduced the antiseptic method to surgical practice (1867).
– 1869 – Sergey Chapligin (1942) – a Russian scientist in the field of mechanics, one of the founders of hydrodynamics.
– 1908 – Herbert von Karajan (1989) – Austrian conductor.
– 1908 – Bette Davis (1989) – American film actress.
– 1935 – Alimov Ibrahim – historian, archivist scientist, honored scientist of Uzbekistan (1982).
– 1942 – Habib Sadulla – People’s Poet of Uzbekistan (1999).
– 1946 – Abdumajid Madraimov – doctor of historical sciences, professor, source scholar, art historian, translator, candidate of art history sciences.
– 1953 – Pierce Brendan Brosnan – American actor and producer of Irish descent.
– 1955 – Berdiyev Kabul – Minister of Defense of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2008-2017).
– 1978 – Abdullaev Rikhsilla – Uzbek actor.
– 1982 – Hayley Elizabeth Atwill is an English actress with US and UK citizenship.
– 1989 – Lily James – English actress.
– 1995 – Doston Yaqubov – weightlifter from Uzbekistan, 2021 world champion, 2018 Asian Summer Games silver medalist.