Who was born on April 8 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 International Contest Day.
🌏 International Roma Day.
🌏 International Feng Shui Awareness Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇷🇺 Russia – Day of Russian animation.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan – Day of Economists.
🇹🇭 Thailand – Ministry of Defense Day.
🇭🇷 Croatia – National Plitvice Lakes Day.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan – Day of employees of drug control bodies.
🇷🇺 Russia, 🇧🇾 Belarus – Military Commissariat Staff Day.
🇯🇵 Japan – Hana Matsuri – flower festival.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1185 – Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angelus is deposed by his brother Alexey.
– 1271 – Beybars, the Mamluk sultan, conquered the Krak de Chevalier fortress.
– 1378 – Urban VI was elected Pope.
– 1480 – The Catholic Church announces a crusade to retake Otranto (Southern Italy) from the Muslims.
– 1525 – In Krakow, Poland and the Teutonic Order signed a peace treaty that made Prussia a secular state.
– 1766 – The first fire extinguisher was patented in the USA.
– 1782 – Catherine II decided to open public schools in all cities of Russia.
– 1820 – Venus Milos statue was taken out from underground.
– 1853 – The first officially registered chess club was opened.
– 1879 – German electrical engineer Ernst von Siemens demonstrated the electric train
– 1902 – The Russian-Chinese Treaty on Manchuria was concluded, according to which Russia had to gradually withdraw its troops from Manchuria.
– 1904 – Great Britain and France signed the Entente Treaty.
– 1911 – Heike Kamerling Onnes proved the superconductivity of mercury.
– 1918 – the tricolor flag of Russia was replaced by a red flag.
– 1921 – Italian troops destroyed the Labinsk Republic.
– 1966 – Leonid Brezhnev was elected the general secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
– 1967 – Greece and Turkey resume hostilities near Limassol (Cyprus).
– 1971 – the 1st World Roma Congress was held near London.
– 1992 – The Agreement on the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Kingdom of Sweden was signed in Tashkent.
– 1994 – “Tashkent” Republican Stock Exchange was established.
– 1994 – Commodity Exchange of the Republic of Uzbekistan was established.
– 2004 – A statue of Alisher Navoi was opened in Riga, the capital of Latvia.
– 2008 – The building of the International Trade Center was launched in Bahrain.
– 2010 – Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was overthrown (70 victims).
– 2010 – The presidents of Russia and the United States signed a new agreement on the reduction of strategic offensive weapons in Prague.
– 2014 – Windows XP was discontinued.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1792 – Vasily Davidov (1855) – Russian officer, poet, Decembrist.
– 1859 – Edmund Husserl – German philosopher, founder of phenomenology.
– 1892 – Mary Pickford (1979) – American film actress.
– 1896 – Stop Jalilov (1966) – composer, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan.
– 1904 – John Richard Hicks (1988) – English economist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1972).
– 1911 – Melvin Calvin (1997) – American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1961).
– 1937 – Shamsiddinkhan Bobokhanov (2003) – religious and public figure, in 1982-89 – Chairman of the Religious Department of Muslims of Central Asia and Kazakhstan.
– 1838 – Kofi Annan (2018) – 7th UN Secretary General (1997–2007).
– 1944 – Michael Aschbacher – American mathematician.
– 1952 – Darvishbek Rahmonov – the founder, organizer, artistic director of the exemplary circus troupe “Kaldirgoch” and a well-known figure of the circus art of Uzbekistan.
– 1966 – Robin Wright – American actress and director.
– 1968 – Patricia Arquette – American film actress.
– 1983 – Anastasia Yermakova – Russian athlete (synchronized swimming), four-time Olympic champion.