Who was born on April 14 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 World Chagas Disease Day.
🌏 World Quantum Day.
🌏 International Day of Goalkeepers.
🌏 International Laughter Day.
👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇦🇴 Angola – Youth Day.
🇵🇪 Peru – Children’s Day.
🇮🇶 Iraq – Anfal Genocide Commemoration Day.
🇬🇳 Guinea, 🇲🇱 Mali – N’Ko Alphabet Day.
🇬🇪 Georgia – Mother Language Day.
🇺🇸 USA, 🇺🇾 Uruguay, 🇳🇮 Nicaragua, 🇭🇳 Honduras, 🇨🇷 Costa Rica – Pan American Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Dolphin Day.
🇷🇺 Russia, 🇧🇾 Belarus – Air Defense Forces Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 43 BC – Caesar’s army led by Gaius Vibius Pansa Setronian defeated the army of Mark Antony.
– 972 – King of Germany and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire Otto II married Byzantine princess Theofano in Rome.
– 1205 – In the Battle of Adrianople, the Bulgarian army led by King Kaloyan defeated the Crusaders led by Baldwin I.
– 1471 – Battle of Barnet between the Yorks under King Edward IV and the House of Lancaster under Richard, Earl of Warwick during the War of the Red and White Roses in England.
– 1543 – Bartolomeo Ferrello’s expedition discovered San Francisco Bay.
– 1611 – Federico Sezi was the first to use the word “telescope”.
– 1621 – The “Protestant League”, an alliance of German princes, declares its dissolution.
– 1687 – King James II of England equalized the rights of Catholics and Protestants.
– 1847 – British ship “Cleopatra” carrying prisoners from Mumbai to Singapore sank due to a tropical storm; More than 250 people died.
– 1849 – Hungarian rebels declared the independence of Hungary from Austria.
– 1864 – the Spanish fleet captured the Chincha Islands off the coast of Peru. The Spanish-South American War began.
– 1865 – the 16th president of the USA, Abraham Lincoln, was assassinated; Lincoln was seriously wounded and died the next day.
– 1871 – Parliament – Reichstag was established in Germany.
– 1879 – Russian Emperor Alexander II was assassinated. Alexander II survived.
– 1894 – First demonstration of the Edison film projector.
– 1900 – The largest international exhibition in Europe was opened in Paris.
– 1909 – British-Persian oil company (“British Petroleum”) was founded.
– 1912 – The Titanic collided with an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
– 1927 – The first Volvo rolled off the assembly line in Gothenburg, Sweden.
– 1929 – The first Grand Prix of Monaco was held in Monte Carlo.
– 1931 – The 2nd Republic was established in Spain.
– 1945 – more than five hundred British planes bombed the historic center of Potsdam (Germany).
– 1956 – The first VCR was introduced.
– 1967 – Bombs exploded in several places in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince.
– 1978 – People demonstrated in Tbilisi with the demand to make the Georgian language the official language.
– 1980 – the first commercial videocassette (Harry Newman’s concert) goes on sale in England.
– 1983 – the first radiotelephone went on sale in Great Britain.
– 1988 – The Geneva agreement on the elimination of armed conflicts in Afghanistan was signed.
– 1991 – 500 million from the Van Gogh Museum. 20 dollar pictures were stolen.
– 1996 – The law of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On the establishment of the Order of Amir Temur” was adopted.
– 2007 – Protests in Turkey.
– 2010 – Eyjafjadlayokudl volcano erupted in Iceland.
– 2010 – an earthquake occurred in Yushu, China; More than 300 people died.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 216 – Moni (original name Surayk; 273 or 276) – a Babylonian preacher who declared himself a prophet, the founder of the Persian dualistic religion – Monism.
– 1126 – Ibn Rushd (Averroes) (1198) – Andalusian Arab philosopher.
– 1527- Abraham Ortelius (1598) – Flemish cartographer, author of the first modern atlas.
– 1578 – Philip III (1621) – King of Spain.
– 1629 – Christian Huygens (1695) – Dutch mathematician, physicist, astronomer.
– 1744 – Denis Fonvizin (1792) – writer, playwright, creator of Russian domestic comedies.
– 1862 – Pyotr Stolypin (1911) – Russian statesman, initiator of Stolypin’s reform.
– 1886 – Jackson Sidney (1966) – boxer, honored sports teacher (1938).
– 1886 – Abdulla Tokai (1913) – Tatar poet, publicist.
– 1889 – Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1975) – English historian and sociologist, historical philosopher and cultural scientist.
– 1906 – Faisal bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (1975) – King of Saudi Arabia (1964-1975).
– 1907 – Francois Duvalier (1971) – permanent president (dictator) of Haiti (from 1957 until his death).
– 1908 – Maria Shamanova (1994) – Soviet athletics athlete, 14-time USSR champion.
– 1916 – Sulaymon Yudakov (1990) – composer, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1976).
– 1916 – Muhammedov Amin (2000) – hydrotechnical scientist, honored science and technology figure of Uzbekistan.