Who was born on May 6 and what happened on that day?

Who was born on May 6 and what happened on that day?

👉 HOLIDAYS:

🌏 International No Diet Day.

🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:

🇬🇧 Great Britain – Coronation Day.
🇵🇹 Portugal – National Azulejo Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Infantry Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Nurses Day.
🇦🇺 Australia – Labor Day.
🇱🇧 Lebanon, 🇸🇾 Syria – Martyrs’ Day.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom, 🇩🇲 Dominica, 🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda – Labor Day.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria – Army Day.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan – Day of employees of the field of protection of state secrets.

👉 EVENTS:

– 1312 – The Cathedral of Vienna approves the Pope’s intention to declare a crusade.
– 1527 – German Landsknechts, in revolt over long unpaid wages, invade and pillage Rome. Pope Clement VII managed to escape.
– 1626 – Dutch colonist Peter Minuit bought Manhattan from the Indians for a handful of jewels worth $25.
– 1686 – “Eternal Peace” was concluded between Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
– 1715 – The first military-criminal and criminal-procedural code of Russia – Military Article – was published.
– 1757 – Battle of Prague.
– 1840 – The first official postage stamps were issued.
– 1833 – the first steel plow (plug) was produced in the USA.
– 1835 – The first issue of “The New York Herald” newspaper was published in America.
– 1861 – Arkansas became the 9th state to secede from the United States.
– 1872 – The FA Cup was founded.
– 1889 – World Exhibition opened in Paris. It lasted until November 6.
– 1908 – The Wright brothers resumed flight after a three-year hiatus.
– 1910 – George V became King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
– 1914 – In the British Parliament, the House of Lords rejected a bill giving women equal suffrage.
– 1937 – Hindenburg airship crash in New York.
– 1940 – Norwegian gold reserves arrived in England. Along with him, the royal family and members of the country’s government were evacuated.
– 1953 – Philadelphia surgeon John Gibbon successfully used an artificial blood pumping machine (“artificial heart-lung”) during open-heart surgery for the first time.
– 1955 – Great Britain applied to the International Court of Justice to resolve a dispute with Argentina and Chile over ownership of the Falkland Islands.
– 1968 – The French government closes the University of Paris due to street fighting in Paris.
– 1974 – Willy Brandt resigned as Chancellor of Germany.
– 1991 – The Institute of Architecture and Construction was established.
– 1992 – diplomatic relations were established between the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Kingdom of Thailand.
– 1993 – Laws “On the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan” and “On the monetary system of the Republic of Uzbekistan” were adopted at the session of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
– 1994 – Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II and French President Francois Mitterrand ceremonially opened the tunnel under the English Channel.
– 1998 – Akmola, the new capital of Kazakhstan, was renamed Astana.
– 2001 – Pope John Paul II came to the Umayyad Mosque.
– 2002 – American space technology company SpaceX was founded.
– 2012 – “March of Millions” took place in Russia, which led to the “Swamp Case” (“Bolotnoe delo”).
– 2023 – Coronation of King Charles III of Great Britain.

👉 BIRTHDAYS:

– 973 – Saint Henry II (1024) – German king (1002-1024), emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (from 1014).
– 1758 – Maximilian Robespierre (1794) – leader of the French Revolution.
– 1856 – Peary Robert Edwin (1920) – American explorer who studied the Arctic, admiral (1911).
– 1856 – Sigmund Freud (1939) – Austrian neurologist and psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis.
– 1868 – Gaston Leroux (1927) – French writer (novel “Phantom of the Opera” and others), journalist, detective master.
– 1870 – Amadeo Giannini (1949) – American banker, founder of Bank of America.
– 1871 – Victor Grignard (1935) – French organic chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1912).
– 1906 – Andre Weyl (1998) – French mathematician.
– 1904 – Martinson Harry (1978) – Swedish poet, winner of the Nobel Prize (1974).
– 1907 – Nikolai Gastello (1941) – Soviet military pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously).
– 1910 – Rasul Reza (1981) – People’s Poet of Azerbaijan (1960).
– 1923 – Vladimir Etush – Russian theater and film actor, played various roles in films such as “Prisoner of the Caucasus”, “Ivan Vasilevich changes his profession”, “Shadow”.
– 1944 – Farhod Jahangirov – Doctor of Medical Sciences.
– 1953 – Tony Blair – Prime Minister of Great Britain (1997-2007).
– 1960 – Anne Pariseau – French actress.
– 1961 – George Clooney – American actor, director, screenwriter, producer.
– 1978 – Tony Estange – French slalom canoeist, three-time Olympic champion (2000, 2004, 2012), 5-time world champion, member of the IOC.
– 1983 – Daniel Alves is a famous Brazilian football player, a member of the “Barcelona” club.
– 1988 – Stanislav Andreyev – member of “Pakhtakor” football team.
– 1981 – Botir Kadirov is a famous Uzbek pop singer.
– 1993 – Naomi Scott is an English film and television actress, singer and musician.
– 2019 – Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor – the eldest son of Prince Harry, the great-grandson of the British King Charles III.