Who was born on June 16 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – International Family Remittance Day.
🇺🇳 International Day of Solidarity with the Struggling People of South Africa.
🇺🇳 International Day of African Children.
🌏 World Sea Turtle Day.
🌍 International Waterfall Day.
👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇮🇪 Ireland – “Bloomsday” holiday.
🇦🇷 Argentina – Day of Engineers.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom – St. Richards Day.
🇿🇦 JAR – Youth Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Artek’s birthday.
🇸🇨 Seychelles – Father’s Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1567 – Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, is imprisoned at Lochlevan Castle.
– 1633 – The Inquisition decided to punish Galileo Galilei for his hypocrisy.
– 1815 – Napoleon’s Hundred Days: Battle of Cater-Bra.
– 1822 – a circus building was opened on Krest Island in St. Petersburg.
– 1842 – According to the decree of Nicholas I, the Standard Weights and Measures Depot was established in St. Petersburg.
– 1874 – The Cavendish Physics Laboratory, one of the world’s centers for experimental physics, biology and other fundamental research, was opened at the University of Cambridge.
– 1894 – on the initiative of Pierre de Coubertin, the congress began to work on the issue of the restoration of the Olympic Games.
– 1903 – The Ford Motor Company is founded.
– 1903 – “Pepsi-Cola” trademark was registered in the USA.
– 1907 – the Second State Duma was dissolved in the Russian Empire.
– 1913 – The South African Parliament banned blacks from owning land.
– 1920 – The International Tribunal of the League of Nations was opened in The Hague.
– 1925 – “Artek” children’s camp began to work.
– 1944 – Iceland’s constitution was adopted.
– 1959 – Exhibition of achievements of the USSR National Economy (VDNX) was opened in Moscow.
– 1963 – Valentina Tereshkova, the world’s first female astronaut, flew into space.
– 1972 – The Jazz Museum was opened in New York.
– 1974 – In Somalia, it was announced that universities would be closed for a year so that students could teach the country’s settlers to read and write.
– 1994 – Sweden decided to build a bridge and tunnel to Denmark.
– 2004 – an agreement on strategic partnership was signed between the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Russian Federation in Tashkent.
– 2012 – The first Chinese female cosmonaut flew into space as part of the crew of the Shengzhou-9 spacecraft.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1313 – Giovanni Boccaccio (1375) – Italian writer and poet.
– 1754 – Salavat Yulayev (1800) – Bashkir poet and national hero, comrade of Yemelyan Pugachyov.
– 1845 – Heinrich Dressel (1920) – German archaeologist and numismatist.
– 1858 – Gustav V (1950) – King of Sweden (1907-50).
– 1888 – Alexander Friedman (1925) – Russian mathematician and geophysicist, who created the non-stationary universe theory.
– 1896 – Jean Peugeot (1966) – French car manufacturer, one of the founders of Peugeot car company.
– 1897 – Georg Wittig (1987) – German chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1979).
– 1902 – Barbara McClintock (1992) – American geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1983).
– 1934 – William Forsyth Sharp – economist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1990).
– 1937 – Margarita Filanovich – Soviet and Uzbek historian, archaeologist, head of the Tashkent archaeological expedition.
– 1937 – Simeon II – the last king of Bulgaria (1943-46).
– 1949 – Caju – Brazilian football player, 1970 world champion.
– 1950 – Mithun Chakraborty – Indian actor.
– 1951 – Roberto Duran – Panamanian boxer, world champion in four weight categories.
– 1955 – Anatoly Chubais – Soviet and Russian political, state and economic leader and economist, Chairman of the Board of JSC “Rusnano” (since 2011).
– 1957 – Alexandra Marinina – Russian writer, author of works of the detective genre.
– 1964 – Robin Sharma – English writer, motivator and personal development expert.
– 1966 – Jan Zhelezny – Polish javelin thrower, three-time Olympic and world champion.
– 1986 – Jessica McNamee – Australian actress.
– 1990 – Yigitali Mamajonov – Uzbek actor.
– 1991 – Fazliddin Goibnazarov – professional boxer from Uzbekistan.
– 2000 – Bianca Andreescu is a Canadian professional tennis player