Who was born on April 1 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 International Bird Day.
🌏 Joke day.
🌏 International Tatting Day.
🌏 Instant coffee birthday.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇹🇭 Thailand – Public Service Day.
🇹🇿 Tanzania – Tree Planting Day.
🇮🇩 Indonesia – National Radio Broadcasting Day.
🇸🇲 San Marino – Investment of Captain Regents.
🇮🇷 Iran – Islamic Republic Day.
🇨🇾 Cyprus – National holiday.
🇿🇦 South Africa – Family Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 325 – Four-year-old Chen-di inherits the throne of the Xin Empire from his father Min-di.
– 537 – Byzantine emperor Justin I appointed his nephew Justinian I as his assistant and future emperor.
– 568 – Lombard invasion of Italy began.
– 1579 – Vilen University was founded.
– 1734 – The first lighthouse in Canada was commissioned
– 1748 – Excavations begin in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii.
– 1778 – Oliver Pollock of New Orleans invented the dollar sign – $.
– 1808 – Alexander I declared war to annex Finland to Russia.
– 1875 – The world’s first English newspaper “The Times” began to publish weekly weather reports.
– 1889 – The first dishwasher appeared in Chicago.
– 1890 – Belgian immigrant Charles Van Depool received a patent for the first trolleybus in the United States.
– 1891 – the artist Paul Gauguin left France for Tahiti.
– 1918 – The British Air Force is established.
-1937 – Burma secedes from India.
– 1938 – Nescafé coffee began to be produced.
– 1939 – The civil war in Spain ended.
– 1940 – The first electron microscope was demonstrated in New Jersey.
– 1948 – Faroe Islands gained autonomy from Denmark.
– 1951 – “Mossad” foreign intelligence service was established in Israel.
– 1976 – Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple.
– 1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini declared Iran as the Islamic Republic.
– 1981 – permanent summer time was switched to in the USSR.
– 1997 – President Yeltsin passed a law requiring all Russian officials to drive cars made in Russia.
– 1998 – Comet Hale came very close to the Sun.
-2004 – Google introduced Gmail mail service.
– 2009 – Albania and Croatia joined NATO.
– 2016 – armed conflicts began in Nagorno-Karabakh, known as the “four-day war”.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1578 – William Harvey (1657) – English physician, physiologist and embryologist.
– 1697 – Antoine-Francois Prevost (1763) – French writer.
– 1750 – Hugo Kollontay (1812) – Polish publicist and public figure of the Enlightenment period.
– 1809 – Nikolai Gogol (1852) is a Russian writer, poet, critic, a classic representative of world literature.
– 1815 – Otto von Bismarck (1898) – prince, politician, statesman, the first chancellor of the German Empire (1871-1890), called the “Iron Chancellor”.
– 1840 – Illarion Pryanishnikov (1894) – Russian artist, teacher.
– 1865 – Richard Adolf Zigmondi (1929) – Austrian physicist and chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1925).
– 1868 – Edmond Rostand (1918) – French poet, playwright.
– 1873 – Sergei Rachmaninov (1943) – Russian composer, pianist and conductor.
– 1883 – Lon Chaney (1930) – American silent film actor.
– 1919 – Joseph Edward Murray (2012) – American surgeon, winner of the Nobel Prize (1990).
– 1920 – Ubaydulla Karimov (1997) – Uzbek Orientalist, Honored Scientist of Uzbekistan (1980).
– 1933 – Claude Cohen-Tannuji – French physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1997).
– 1934 – Vladimir Posner – Soviet and Russian journalist, TV presenter, writer.
– 1947 – Alain Cohn – French mathematician.
– 1976 – Ruud van Nistelrooy – former Dutch football player, striker, one of the great players included in the FIFA 100 list.
– 1986 – Irene Wuest – Dutch figure skater, 5-time Olympic champion, multiple world and European champion.