Who was born on June 5 and what happened on that day?
👉HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – World Environment Day.
🇺🇳 UN – International Day Against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing.
🌏 World Running Day.
👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇷🇺 Russia – Day of Environmentalists.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan – Day of hydrometeorologists.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan – Day of Environmentalists.
🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea – President’s Day.
🇳🇿 New Zealand – Arbor Day.
🇩🇰 Denmark – Father’s Day.
🇩🇰 Denmark – Constitution Day.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan – Reclamation Day.
🇧🇾 Belarus – Environmental Protection Day.
🇮🇷 Iran – the anniversary of the Khordod movement.
🇺🇸 USA – Long Term HIV Survivors Awareness Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1224 – The University of Naples was founded.
– 1284 – Sicilian Wars: Naval Battle of Naples takes place.
– 1494 – Babur Mirza sat on the throne of Ferghana.
– 1706 – a military hospital (now called Burdenko) was opened in Moscow.
– 1783 – Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Mongolfe launched the first balloons.
– 1798 – During the Irish Rebellion of 1798, the Battle of New Ross was fought and ended in a British victory.
– 1806 – Louis Bonaparte announced the formation of the Kingdom of Holland.
– 1849 – Denmark became a constitutional monarchy.
– 1862 – Treaty of Saigon.
– 1873 – The largest slave market in the world was closed in Zanzibar under British pressure.
– 1876 – The first session of the Supreme Court of Canada was held.
– 1881 – US President James Garfield was assassinated.
– 1909 – The statue of Alexander III was unveiled.
– 1912 – US Marines landed in Cuba.
– 1940 – The first synthetic rubber tires were introduced in the United States.
– 1940 – Canada bans 16 organizations, including fascists and communists.
– 1947 – US Secretary of State George Marshall proposed a plan to help Europe.
– 1953 – The US Senate rejected China’s UN membership.
– 1967 – The Arab-Israeli Six-Day War began in the Middle East.
– 1968 – Senator Robert Kennedy, who won the first round of the presidential election in California, was seriously injured and died the next day.
– 1977 – The first Apple II computers went on sale.
– 1995 – Andijan University of Engineering and Economics was founded.
– 2006 – Serbia declared its independence.
– 2008 – The decision of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On the construction of the “Uzbekistan” Conference Palace in Tashkent” was adopted.
– 2010 – NASA experts believe that the American automatic interplanetary station Cassini has detected signs of life on Saturn’s moon Titan.
– 2022 – constitutional referendum in Kazakhstan.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1723 – Adam Smith (1790) – English economist and philosopher.
– 1798 – Alexei Lvov (1870) – general, violinist and composer, author of the anthem of the Russian Empire.
– 1819 – John Couch Adams (1892) – English astronomer and mathematician.
– 1862 – Allvar Gullstrand (1930) – Swedish ophthalmologist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1911).
– 1878 – Pancho Villa (1923) – peasant leader during the Mexican Revolution.
– 1891 – John Howard Northrop (1987) – American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1946).
– 1894 – Roy Herbert Thompson (1976) – Canadian media magnate, founder of Thompson Corporation.
– 1898 – Federico García Lorca (1936) – Spanish poet and playwright.
– 1900 – Dennis Gabor (1979) – English physicist, founder of holography, winner of the Nobel Prize (1972).
– 1913 – Nazira Ahmedova (1964) – Uzbek opera singer (lyric-coloratura soprano), People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1951).
– 1909 – Akhmadjon Shukurov (1990) – Second World War participant, sergeant, Hero of the Soviet Union (1943).
– 1921 – Tokhta Rahmonova (1984) Karakalpak actress.People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1950).
– 1929 – Ivar Giaever – American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1973).
– 1934 – Iskandar Khamroyev (2009) – Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter.
– 1939 – Azimjonova Matluba (2009) – Founder of Neonatology in Central Asia, pediatrician, hematologist.
– 1941 – Barbara Brylska – Polish theater and film actress.
– 1950 – Anorqul Nazarov – composer, artist of the Republic of Uzbekistan (1995)
– 1957 – Yusup Rozikov – Uzbek and Russian film director and screenwriter, Honored Artist of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2001).
– 1971 – Mark Wahlberg – American actor, producer, philanthropist.
– 1985 – Ruben de la Red – Spanish football player, European champion.
– 1990 – Sophie Cookson – British actress.
– 1997 – Tursunoy Rahimova – boxer from Uzbekistan, super lightweight.
– 1998 – Yulia Lipniskaya – Russian figure skating master, Olympic champion.