Who was born on June 17 and what happened on the day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought.
🌏 World Cleaning Workers Day.
🌏 World Karate Day.
🌎 World Juggling Day.
🌏 International Surfing Day.
🌏 International Crocodile Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇬🇹 Guatemala, 🇸🇻 El Salvador – Father’s Day.
🇵🇹 Portugal – National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Forest Fires.
🇱🇻 Latvia – The day of the conquest of the Republic of Latvia.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan – Day of Medical Workers.
🇹🇩 Romania – National Aviation Day.
🇮🇸 Iceland – National Day (Independence Day).
👉 EVENTS:
– 1462 – Vlad Zepesh attacked the camp of Mehmed II the Conqueror.
– 1596 – Barens Billem arrived in Spitsbergen.
– 1789 – In France, the third category of deputies of the States General declared themselves the National Assembly.
– 1863 – Battle of Eldi.
-1866 – Austria declared war on Prussia.
– 1885 – The Statue of Liberty was brought to New York.
– 1898 – US Senate approves annexation of Hawaii.
– 1925 – The Protocol on the Prohibition of the Use of Poisonous, Asphyxiant and Other Similar Gases and Biological Products in War was signed in Geneva.
– 1930 – the first tractor left the conveyor of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant.
– 1940 – Soviet troops invaded Latvia and Estonia.
– 1940 – “Lancastria” ship sank with 4000 passengers.
– 1940 – In the village of Meshera, Gorky region, it rained silver coins of the XVI-XVII centuries.
– 1944 – Iceland declared its independence.
– 1950 – Chicago surgeon Richard Lawler performed the world’s first kidney transplant.
– 1953 – there were demonstrations against the government of the GDR.
– 1967 – The first hydrogen bomb was tested in China.
– 1970 – Edwin Land received a patent for the Polaroid camera.
– 1972 – The Watergate case broke out in the United States.
– 1988 – “Microsoft” developed the MS DOS 4.0 operating system.
– 1992 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin addressed the US Congress.
– 2000 – The new building of the British Embassy in Moscow was ceremonially opened.
– 2015 – Charleston shooting, 9 dead.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1239 – Edward I Long-legged (1307) – King of England (1272-1307).
– 1609 – Faustino Bocchi (1741) – Italian painter.
– 1714 – César Francois Cassini (1784) – French astronomer and geodesist.
– 1811 – Jón Sigurdsson (1879) – Icelandic scientist, leader of the national liberation movement.
– 1818 – Charles Gounod (1893) – French composer, conductor, pedagogue, organist.
– 1856 – Franz Roubaud (1928) – Russian painter.
– 1912 – Zunnun Qadiri (1989) – Uyghur writer, playwright, founder of Uyghur literature of the new era.
– 1920 – Setsuko Hara (1998) – Japanese actress.
– 1920 – Francois Jakob (2013) – French microbiologist, geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1965).
– 1929 – Tigran Petrosyan (1924) – Soviet chess player, 9th world champion.
– 1946 – Javlon Umarbekov – painter, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1989), Honored Artist of Uzbekistan (1982).
– 1961 – Bryn Jones (1999) – British musician known by the pseudonym Muslimgauze.
– 1964 – Michael Gross – German swimming master, three-time Olympic champion.
– 1978 – Isabel Delobel – French ice dancer, World (2008) and European (2007) champion, Grand Prix final champion (2008).
– 1980 – Venus Williams is an American tennis player, multiple winner of the Grand Slam tournament.
– 1985 – Ayshegul Koshkun – Turkish singer, actress and poetess.
– 1988 – Stephanie Rice – Australian swimmer, three-time Olympic champion.
– 1996 – Bekmurod Altiboyev – Uzbek judoka, member of the national team of Uzbekistan in the weight category over 100 kg.
– 2000 – Odessa Azion – American actress.
– 2002 – Shahjakhan Abdullayev – Uzbek amateur and professional boxer.
– 2010 – Cristiano Ronaldo Jr. – Cristiano Ronaldo’s son.