Who was born on March 6 and what day is it?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 World Lymphedema Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇬🇭 Ghana – Independence Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Dentist’s Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Costume Day.
🇮🇶 Iraq – National Day of Tolerance and Coexistence.
🇳🇫 Norfolk – Founding Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Frozen Food Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 845 – 42 Amorite martyrs were executed in Samarra.
– 961 – Conquest of Dhankas by the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros II, ending the Cretan Emirate.
– 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan discovered the island of Guam.
– 1629 – Ferdinand II passed the Edict of Restitution.
– 1714 – English engineer Henry Mill received a patent for a typewriter.
– 1788 – arrival of the first fleet on Norfolk Island; establishment of the first settlements for convicts.
– 1790 – The dental drill was invented.
– 1801 – The Marquis de Sade was arrested for the novel “Justine”.
– 1804 – The first steam locomotive called “New Castle” – “New Lock” was created.
– 1834 – In Canada, the city of York was renamed Toronto.
– 1869 – Dimitri Mendeleev published the first table of chemical elements.
– 1857 – The US Supreme Court ruled that slaves were property, not citizens.
– 1882 – Serbia was declared a kingdom.
– 1883 – American inventor Hiram Maxim invented the first machine gun.
– 1899 – German chemist Felix Hoffmann received a patent for aspirin.
– 1902 – “Real Madrid” football club was founded.
– 1924 – The first radio receiver was installed in the Vatican.
– 1941 – Andijan, Namangan and Surkhandarya regions were formed.
– 1946 – The first high-speed computer, called “Eniac”, began to be used in the United States.
– 1948 – The Museum of Western Culture in Russia was closed.
– 1957 – Ghana gained independence.
– 1964 – Cassius Clay officially changed his first and last name to “Muhammad Ali”.
– 1975 – Nishan and Kyziriq districts were established.
– 1984 – British miners’ strike began.
– 1990 – In Afghanistan, the government of President Muhammad Najibullah suppressed a coup attempt.
– 1992 – Diplomatic relations were established between Uzbekistan and Germany.
– 1995 – “Customs Union Agreement” was signed between 15 member states of the European Union and the Republic of Turkey.
– 1997 – Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain launched her first official website.
– 2018 – A Russian Air Force An-26 crashed while landing at Khmeimim Air Base in Syria, killing 39 people.
– 2022 – Russian invasion of Ukraine: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy awarded the honorary title of “Hero City of Ukraine” to six cities: Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Mariupol, Kherson, Gostomel, and Volnovakha.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1340 – John of Gaunt (1399) – 1st Duke of Lancaster, founder of the House of Lancaster.
– 1405 – Juan II of Castile (1454) – King of Castile and León.
– 1475 – Michelangelo (1564) – the great Italian sculptor, architect, painter and poet of the Renaissance.
– 1870 – Oskar Strauss (1954) – Austrian composer.
– 1884 – Alexander Belyaev (1942) – Russian science fiction writer.
– 1889 – Hamza Hakimzada Niyazi (1929) – poet, dramatist.
– 1913 – Alexander Pokryshkin (1985) – air marshal (1972), 3 times Hero of the Soviet Union.
– 1927 – Gabriel García Márquez (2014) – Colombian writer, winner of the Nobel Prize (1982).
– 1929 – Fazil Iskandar (2016) – Russian and Abkhazian writer and poet.
– 1936 – Mirzayev Tora – folklore scholar.
– 1937 – Valentina Tereshkova – Russian cosmonaut-pilot (1963), the 1st female cosmonaut in the world.
– 1940 – Khayitova Almakhan (2014) – singer, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan.
– 1978 – Lara Cox – Australian actress and model.
– 1989 – Agneszka Radwanska – Polish female tennis player.
– 1992 – Olga Meganskaya – Russian singer.
– 2001 – Zoe Sadowski-Sinnott – New Zealand snowboarder, Olympic champion (2022).