Who was born on April 7 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Rwandan Genocide.
🇺🇳 World Health Day.
🦫 International Beaver Day.
🏈 Rugby’s birthday.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇦🇲 Armenia – Day of Motherhood and Beauty.
🇸🇮 Slovenia – Flag Day.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan – “A drop of water is a grain of gold” day.
🇧🇪 Belgium – Veterans Day.
🇷🇺 Russia, 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan, 🇺🇦 Ukraine, 🇧🇾 Belarus, 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan – Day of Geologists.
🇷🇺 Russia – Day of remembrance of fallen submariners.
🇲🇿 Mozambique – Women’s Day.
🇷🇼 Rwanda – Genocide Remembrance Day.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan – April Revolution Day.
🇹🇿 Tanzania – Abeid Karume Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1311- Battle of Voplavka.
– 1348 – Karlov University was founded in Prague.
– 1789 – Salim III became the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
– 1795 – The meter and kilogram are adopted as units of measurement in France.
– 1805 – Ludwig van Beethoven’s Third Symphony premiered in Vienna.
– 1823 – French armed intervention began in Spain to restore the monarchy of Fernando VII.
– 1826 – The building of the Pinakothek in Munich was built.
– 1827 – John Walker, an English pharmacist, sold sulfur matches, which he had previously invented.
– 1831 – Pedro II becomes emperor of Brazil after his father, Pedro I, abdicates.
– 1926 – Italian dictator Mussolini was assassinated.
– 1939 – Nazi Italian attack on Albania.
– 1948 – The charter of the World Health Organization came into force. Today, this day is celebrated as World Health Day.
– 1957 – The last trolleybus in New York made its last trip.
– 1964 – IBM launched the legendary System/360.
– 1994 – .ru domain was launched.
– 1994 – the beginning of the genocide in Rwanda.
– 1999 – Tashkent Islamic University was founded.
– 2003 – Iraq War: US forces capture Baghdad.
– 2010 – Second revolution in Kyrgyzstan.
– 2014 – Declaration of DPR.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1613 – Gerard Dou (1675) – Dutch portrait painter, student of Rembrandt.
– 1730 – Hubert Pascal Amelon (1811) – French librarian, historian and Egyptologist.
– 1899 – Gabriela Mistral (1957) – Chilean poet, winner of the Nobel Prize (1945).
– 1908 – Mikhail Somov (1973) – oceanographer, polar explorer, Hero of the Soviet Union (1951).
– 1926 – Otakhonov Ochilkhan – singer, People’s Court of Uzbekistan (1992).
– 1939 – Francis Coppola – American director, screenwriter, producer, businessman.
– 1944 – Gerhard Schröder – German politician, Federal Chancellor of Germany (1998-2005).
– 1946 – Mark Rudinstein – film producer, organizer of film festivals.
– 1949 – Valentina Matviyenko – Soviet and Russian statesman, politician, diplomat.
– 1954 – Chan Kong-sang – Hong Kong actor, film director, producer, screenwriter and singer known as Jackie Chan.
– 1959 – Chingiz Abdullayev – Azerbaijani writer.
– 1962 – Mikhail Krug (2002) – Soviet and Russian singer, poet and bard.
– 1964 – Russell Crowe – Australian film actor, director.
– 1977 – Shermatov Sherzod – Uzbek statesman, Minister of Public Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2018-2021), Minister of Information Technologies and Communications Development of the Republic of Uzbekistan (from 2021).
– 1983 – Franck Ribery – French football player.
– 1989 – Teddy Riner – French judoka, two-time Olympic champion (2012, 2016), multiple world and European champion.