Who was born on February 5 and what day is it?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 World Nutella Day.
🌏 World Animal Reiki Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇩🇰 Denmark – Queen Mary of Denmark’s birthday.
🇺🇸 USA – National Weather Information Day.
🇫🇮 Finland – Runeberg Day.
🇸🇲 San Marino – Independence Day and Saint Agatha Day.
🇧🇮 Burundi – Unity Day.
🇵🇰 Pakistan – Kashmir Solidarity Day.
🇲🇽 Mexico – Constitution Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– mile. av.2 – Octavian Augustus received the title of “father of the country”.
– 62 – A strong earthquake occurred in Pompeii.
– 1597 – 26 Catholics were crucified and executed in Nagasaki by order of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
– 1783 – the longest earthquake in history began in Italy (from 32 thousand to 50 thousand victims).
– 1810 – War of the Pyrenees: the siege of Cadiz by the French army began.
– 1852 – The New Hermitage was opened to the public for the first time.
– 1901 – Yeliseev store was opened in Moscow.
– 1909 – Leo Bakeland invented plastic.
– 1917 – the constitution of the United Mexican States was adopted.
– 1919 – The first passenger air service was launched in Europe.
– 1919 – Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and David Griffith founded United Artists.
– 1924 – The BBC began broadcasting accurate time signals every hour.
– 1926 – An armed attack on Soviet diplomats was organized in Latvia.
– 1928 – vitamin D was obtained artificially for the first time.
– 1952 – the first traffic light for pedestrians was installed in New York.
– 1971 – Astronauts Alan Sheppard and Edgar Mitchell set foot on the Moon as part of the Apollo 14 mission.
– 1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini declared Iran an Islamic state.
– 1992 – UzTAG was transformed into the National Information Agency of Uzbekistan (UzA).
– 1993 – The Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan adopted a decision “On selection of applicants for higher educational institutions of the Republic of Uzbekistan by test method”.
– 1995 – A bicameral Supreme Council was elected in Kyrgyzstan.
– 2000 – Massacre in Chechnya.
– 2004 – Uprising against Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti.
– 2023 – the price limit for Russian oil products will come into force in the European Union (transit period is 55 days).
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1804 – Johann Ludwig Runeberg (1877) – Finnish poet, author of the Finnish anthem.
– 1812 – Georges Dantes – French officer and politician, assassin of Alexander Pushkin.
– 1836 – Nikolai Dobrolyubov (1861) – Russian writer and literary critic.
– 1840 – Hiram Stevens Maxim (1916) – British gunsmith, inventor of automatic rifle, cannon and machine gun.
– 1878 – Andre Gustave Citroën (1935) – French engineer and industrialist, founder of the Citroen automobile company.
– 1914 – Alan Hodgkin (1998) – British neurophysiologist and biophysicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1963).
– 1915 – Robert Hofstadter (1990) – American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1961).
– 1924 – Alexander Matrosov (1943) – Soviet soldier, Hero of the Soviet Union.
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– 1927 – Dushan Faizy – poet and dramatist, Honored Artist of Uzbekistan (1977).
– 1928 – Kamil Okilov – historian, scientist, honored scientist of Uzbekistan, doctor of historical sciences, professor.
– 1946 – Charlotte Rampling – film actress.
– 1948 – Thomas Wilkinson – British actor.
– 1952 – Tursun Ali (Ormanov) – Uzbek poet.
– 1958 – Abulqasim Mamarasulov – Uzbek writer.
– 1965 – George Hadji – Romanian football player.
– 1978 – Abdulhai Otahojayev – dubbing actor. Chief editor of “Kinoteatr” TV channel.
– 1985 – Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese football player, a member of the Saudi “Al-Nasr” club.
-1986 – Manuel Fernandez – Portuguese football player.
– 1992 – Neymar – Brazilian football player, Olympic champion (2016).
– 1993 – Lim Jon Sim – North Korean weightlifter, two-time Olympic champion