Who was born on April 6 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – International Day of Sports for Development and Peace.
🌎 World Table Tennis Day.
🌎 Bohring-Opitz Syndrome Awareness Day
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇮🇩 Indonesia – Fisherman’s Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Siamese Cat Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Student-Athlete Day.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan – Day of athletic trainers, physical education and sports specialists.
🇨🇩 DR Congo – Kimbangu Day.
🇨🇨 Cocos Islands – Self-Determination Day.
🇧🇮 Burundi – President Ntaryamira Day.
🇹🇭 Thailand – Chakri Dynasty Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 943 – Nasr ibn Ahmad, the ruler of the Samanid state, died.
– 1199 – English king Richard Sherryuk died in the war with France.
– 1327 – Francesco Petrarch met his muse.
– 1362 – Hundred Years’ War: Battle of Brinier.
– 1384 – Period of the Portuguese Kingdoms: The Battle of Atoleirush ends with a victory for the Portuguese army.
– 1580 – An earthquake in Britain destroys some London churches, including the old St. Paul’s Cathedral.
– 1652 – Jean van Riebeeck founded Cape Town.
– 1712 – A slave revolt began in New York.
– 1748 – The ruins of Pompeii (Italy) were discovered.
– 1793 – The Committee of Public Safety was established in France.
– 1814 – The Bourbon dynasty was restored in France.
– 1818 – In Paris, Baron Karl Drez demonstrated the first two-wheeled bicycle.
– 1897 – Slavery is banned in Zanzibar.
– 1899 – the first electric tram was launched in Moscow.
– 1903 – Chisinau massacre began.
– 1909 – an agreement on the independence of Bulgaria was signed between Russia and Turkey.
– 1917 – The United States entered World War I.
– 1924 – The Nazis won an absolute victory in the elections in Italy.
– 1930 – the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Star were established by the decree of the MIK of the USSR.
– 1938 – Chemist Roy Plunkett discovers polytetrafluoroethylene, or Teflon.
-1945 – Koenigsberg operation began.
– 1965 – Early Bird, the world’s first commercial communications satellite operating in geostationary orbit, was launched in the USA.
– 1984 – The people of the Cocos Islands voted to fully join Australia.
– 1985 – American William Schroeder became the first person to be discharged from the hospital with an artificial heart.
– 1994 – The plane crash of the presidents of Rwanda and Uganda: the beginning of the genocide in Rwanda.
– 1999 – A civilian quarter was destroyed by NATO bombs in Alexis (Yugoslavia).
– 2010 – the beginning of the coup d’état in Kyrgyzstan. April events. The reason: the nepotistic rule of Kurmanbek Bakiyev’s regime.
– 2012 – Azawad declared its independence.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1483 – Raphael Santi (1520) – famous Italian painter and architect. (may be March 26 or 28)
– 1671 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1741) – a famous French humorist-poet.
– 1810 – Philip Henry Gosse (1888) – English naturalist, inventor of the aquarium.
– 1812 – Alexander Herzen (1870) – Russian public figure and writer, philosopher, revolutionary.
– 1836 – Nikolai Sklifosovsky (1904) – Russian doctor, surgeon, professor, pedagogue.
– 1892 – Donald Wills Douglas (senior) (1981) – American aeronautical engineer, builder of passenger, cargo and military aircraft.
– 1911 – Feodor Felix Conrad Linen (1979) – German biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1964).
– 1928 – James Watson (1928) – American biochemist, one of the founders of molecular biology, winner of the Nobel Prize (1962).
– 1969 – Paul Rudd – American actor, comedian, screenwriter and film producer.
– 1973 – Rumiana Neykova – Bulgarian rower, Olympic champion (2008).
– 1975 – Otabek Murodov – 5th Chief Prosecutor of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2018-2019).
– 1975 – Zach Braff – American actor, director, screenwriter, producer.
– 1978 – Tatyana Naynik – Russian singer, actress, model and producer.
– 1987 – Nilufar Usmonova – Uzbek singer and actress.
– 1992 – Asal Shodiyeva – Uzbek film actress and singer.
– 1998 – Peyton Roy List – American actress.