Who was born on June 15 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – World Elder Abuse Awareness Day.
🌎 International Wind Day.
🌎 International Walk Day.
👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇮🇳 India, Mizoram – Youth Mizo Association Day.
🇩🇰 Denmark – Valdemar day and meeting day.
🇦🇲 Armenia – Flag Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Megalodon Day.
🇨🇷 Costa Rica – Tree Planting Day.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan – Firefighters’ Day.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan – National Salvation Day.
🇬🇧 England – Great Freedom Charter Day.
🇩🇰 Denmark – Flag Day.
🇮🇹 Italy – Day of Engineers.
🇷🇺 Russia – Day of Young Naturalists.
👉 EVENTS:
– 313 – Byzantine emperor Constantine declared freedom of religion.
– 1215 – The Great Charter of Liberty was signed.
– 1389 – Battle of Kosovo field.
– 1502 – Christopher Columbus discovered the island of Martinique.
– 1616 – The first school for Indians opened in Canada.
– 1667 – Jean-Baptiste Denis successfully transfused a 15-year-old boy.
– 1752 – Benjamin Franklin proved the electrical nature of lightning through the lightning rod experiment.
– 1830 – “Plague rebellion” in Sevastopol.
– 1869 – John Hyatt patents celluloid.
– 1907 – The Hague Conference begins.
– 1918 – Turkestan People’s Conservatory was opened.
– 1920 – the constitution of the Republic of Estonia was adopted.
– 1932 – war broke out between Bolivia and Paraguay.
– 1950 – West Germany was admitted to the Council of Europe.
– 1954 – UEFA was founded.
– 1970 – Charles Manson’s trial began in the USA.
– 1985 – Rembrandt’s painting “Danaya” was washed with sulfuric acid.
– 1993 – Heydar Aliyev was elected chairman of the Supreme Assembly of Azerbaijan.
– 2001 – In Shanghai, China, the leaders of 6 countries signed the declaration on the establishment of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
– 2002 – An asteroid named “2002 MN” flew by the earth at a distance of 121,000 kilometers. This distance is one third of the distance between the earth and the moon.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1479 – Lisa Gherardini (1542) – Florentine woman, believed to be depicted in da Vinci’s Mono Lisa.
– 1594 – Nicolas Poussin (1665) – French painter, art critic.
– 1843 – Edvard Grieg (1907) – Norwegian composer, pianist, conductor, founder of the Norwegian National School of Music.
– 1881 – Paul Cornew (1944) – French mechanic and aviator, who started the construction of helicopters, the first person to fly in a helicopter (1907).
– 1896 – Ivan Likhachyov (1956) – Soviet statesman, one of the founders of the automobile industry in the USSR.
– 1909 – Ubay Orifov –
Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Honored Scientist of Uzbekistan, physical and mathematical sciences
doctor.
– 1914 – Yuri Andropov (1984) – Soviet state and party figure, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1982-1984).
– 1915 – Thomas Heckle Weller (2008) – American virologist, academician, winner of the Nobel Prize (1954).
– 1916 – Herbert Alexander Simon (2001) – American economist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1978).
– 1921 – Robert Bruce Merrifeld (2006) – American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1984).
– 1923 – Hamid Ziyoyev (2015) – historian, scientist, honored scientist of Uzbekistan (1989).
– 1924 – Ezer Weisman (2005) – Israeli military and military figure, President of Israel (1993-2000).
– 1941 – Vyacheslav Koloskov – Chairman of the Football Federation of the USSR (1990-1991), President of the RFF (1992-2005).
– 1953 – Xi Jinping – General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (2012), General Secretary of the Communist Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Military Council.
– 1957 – Dostmurodov Beknazar – People’s Court of Uzbekistan (2001).
– 1966 – Raymonds Vejonis – President of Latvia (2015-2019).
– 1969 – Oliver Kahn – German football goalkeeper, three-time world and European best goalkeeper.
– 1973 – Neil Patrick Harris is an American actor, singer and comedian.
– 1992 – Salah is an Egyptian football player, striker of the Liverpool club and the Egyptian national team.
– 1999 – Nigina Fakhriddinova – Uzbek model. “Miss Uzbekistan” in 2019 and 2022.
– 2004 – Sterling Jerins is a young American actress.