Who was born on June 13 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – International Albinism Awareness Day.
🌏 International Association of Community Managers Day.
🌎 World Animal Day.
🌏 World Softball Day.
🌏 International Ax Throwing Day.
🌏 Sewing machine day.
🌏 Cousin’s birthday.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇮🇶 Iraq – Sulaymaniyah Martyrs Memorial Day.
🇺🇸 USA ‐ National Dance/Movement Therapy Awareness Day.
🇭🇺 Hungary – Day of Hungarian Inventors.
🇵🇱 Poland – Military Gendarmerie Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Random Acts of Day of Light.
🇺🇸 USA – National Forklift Safety Day.
🇪🇸 Spain, 🇵🇹 Portugal – Feast day of Anthony of Padua.
🇦🇷 Argentina – Writers’ Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 922 – Islam became the state religion in Volgaboyi Bulgars.
– 1373 – England and Portugal signed a treaty of alliance that is still in effect today.
– 1525 – Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora.
– 1550 – The construction of Sulaymaniya mosque, the work of architect Sinan, began.
– 1860 – The State Bank of Russia was established.
– 1877 – Battle of Zivin.
– 1891 – Istanbul Archaeological Museum was opened. This museum is one of the largest museums in the world with more than 1 million works of different cultures.
– 1918 – Mikhail Alexandrovich (representative of the Romanovs) was executed in Perm.
– 1920 – The US Postal Service banned sending children in parcels.
– 1920 – The International Congress of Feminists opened in Geneva.
– 1934 – Hitler and Mussolini meeting in Venice.
– 1942 – US President Franklin Roosevelt decided to create the Office of Strategic Services (now MRB).
– 1944 – cruise missiles were used for the first time in Germany.
– 1949 – Orwell’s novel “1984” was named the best book of the year in the USA.
– 1955 – a kimberlite pipe (diamond mine) was discovered in the USSR.
– 1958 – The first experimental nuclear reactor was launched in China.
– 1983 – The Pioneer 10 space probe became the first vehicle to leave orbit around the Sun.
– 2000 – the first meeting of the leaders of North and South Korea.
– 2009 – Riots in Tehran after Ahmadinejad wins the Iranian presidential election.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1773 – Thomas Jung (1773) – English physicist, doctor and astronomer, one of the founders of the light wave theory.
– 1790 – José Antonio Páez (1873) – hero of the struggle for Venezuelan independence and the 1st president of Venezuela.
– 1831 – James Clerk Maxwell (1879) – Scottish physicist, founder of electromagnetic field theory.
– 1865 – Williams Yeats (1939) – Irish poet and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize (1923).
– 1870 – Jules Borde (1961) – Belgian bacteriologist and immunologist, creator of vaccines, winner of the Nobel Prize (1919).
– 1911 – Luis Alvarez (1988) – American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1968).
– 1911 – Erwin Müller (1977) – German physicist, inventor of the electron and ion projector, the first person to observe the atom.
– 1914 – Fakhriddin Sodikov (1977) – Honored artist, composer, folklorist of Uzbekistan.
– 1928 – John Forbes (2015) – American economist, author of game theory, winner of the Nobel Prize (1994).
– 1940 – Gojko Mitic – Yugoslav film actor, director and stuntman.
– 1944 – Ban Ki-moon – the eighth Secretary General of the United Nations (2007-2016).
– 1957 – Rinat Dasayev – famous Soviet football player, goalkeeper.
– 1959 – Klaus Werner Iohannis – President of Romania (since 2014).
– 1966 – Grigory Perlman – Russian mathematician.
– 1986 – Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen – American actresses, twins.
– 1990 – Aaron Taylor-Johnson – American actor.
– 1995 – Dostonbek Tursunov – Uzbek football player, defender.