Who was born on June 6 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – Russian Language Day.
🌏 World Pest Control Day.
🌏 Electric iron birthday.
🌍 World Green Roof Day.
🔷 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇸 USA – National Higher Education Day.
🇹🇼 Taiwan – Engineer’s Day.
🇦🇷 Argentina – Engineering Day.
🇦🇺 Australia – Queensland State Day.
🇧🇴 Bolivia – Teacher’s Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Day of Journalists.
🇨🇨 Cocos Islands – The King’s Birthday.
🇰🇵 DPRK is the founding day of the Korean Children’s Union.
🇰🇷 Republic of Korea – Memorial Day.
🇸🇪 Sweden – National holiday.
🇩🇪 Germany – Day of the Blind.
👉 EVENTS:
– 105 – Emperor Trajan’s next campaign against the Dacians began.
– 1396 – Sahibgiron Amir Temur ordered to celebrate Eid in Hamadan region.
– 1523 – Gustav Vasa is elected king of independent Sweden.
– 1664 – New Amsterdam is renamed New York.
– 1674 – Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire, is crowned.
– 1761 – M. V. Lomonosov discovered that Venus has an atmosphere.
– 1801 – The Treaty of Badajoz was signed, the War of Orange ended.
– 1808 – Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon I, ascended the throne as King of Spain.
– 1850 – Levi Strauss released his first pair of blue jeans.
– 1882 – American Henry Seeley patented an electric iron.
– 1912 – The Novarupta volcano woke up in Alaska. The second major volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
– 1932 – The military junta declared Chile a Socialist Republic.
– 1967 – The Suez Canal was closed.
– 1982 – The Israeli army began to invade Lebanon.
– 1984 – Attack on a temple in Amritsar.
– 1984 – “Tetris” game was created.
– 1984 – Indian army conducted an operation to expel Sikh separatists from the Golden Temple. 400 civilians and 87 soldiers were killed in the operation.
– 1991 – The decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On the transformation of the Tashkent Institute of National Economy with the Order of People’s Friendship into the Tashkent State University of Economics” was adopted.
– 2002 – An asteroid exploded in the Mediterranean Sea.
– 2012 – One of the rare astronomical events – the transit of Venus across the Sun’s disc was observed.
– 2012 – “Solar Impulse” solar-powered plane flew over 2,500 km from Switzerland to Morocco. This flight went down in history as the first intercontinental flight made with solar energy.
– 2014 – Armed conflict in the east of Ukraine: Ukrainian An-30 plane was shot down in the sky of Slavyansk. 5 crew members were killed.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1436 – Regiomonton (1476) – German astronomer, astrologer and mathematician.
– 1599 – Velázquez, Rodríguez de Silva Velázquez Diego (1660) is a Spanish painter, a major representative of world realistic art.
– 1799 – A. S. Pushkin (1837) – poet, prose writer, playwright, a bright representative of Russian literature.
– 1850 – Ferdinand Braun (1918) – German physicist, inventor of the kinescope, winner of the Nobel Prize (1909).
– 1868 – Robert Falcon Scott (1912) – English polar explorer, one of the discoverers of the South Pole.
– 1871 – Oskar Wisting (1936) – Norwegian explorer who accompanied Amundsen on both polar expeditions.
– 1875 – Thomas Mann (1955) – German writer, winner of the Nobel Prize (1929).
– 1889 – Igor Sikorsky (1972) – Russian and American aircraft designer, scientist, inventor, philosopher
– 1901 – Sukarno (1970) – the first president of Indonesia (1945-1967)
– 1927 – Pavel Bulgakov (1993) – source scholar, Arabic scholar. Correspondent member of FA of Uzbekistan (1979)
– 1929 – Nadir Nodirpour (2000) – famous Iranian poet.
– 1929 – Sabah IV (2020) – Emir of Kuwait.(from 2006).
– 1933 – Heinrich Rohrer (2013) – Swiss physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1986).
– 1934 – Albert II – King of Belgium (1993-2013).
– 1939 – Grayr Hanedanyan – Russian opera singer.
– 1966 – Viktor Zaisev – Soviet and Uzbek track and field athlete.
– 1987 – Yelena Krigina – Russian video blogger and entrepreneur.
– 1989 – Paula Brancati – Canadian actress and producer.
– 1990 – Ellie Kendrick is an English actress.