Who was born on March 17 and what happened on that day?
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇧🇩 Bangladesh – Children’s Day.
🇵🇭 Philippines – Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Day of mobilization workers.
🇹🇭 Thailand – National Muay Thai Boxing Day.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birthday.
🇮🇪 Ireland – Saint Patrick’s Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– Mil. av. 45 – Battle of Munda.
– 1400 – Amir Temur captured Damascus.
– 1776 – American troops occupied Boston.
– 1825 – The formation of the Dominican Republic was announced.
– 1845 – Stephen Perry from England received a patent for a stationery eraser.
– 1861 – The Kingdom of Italy was established.
– 1861 – Alexander II’s manifesto on the abolition of serfdom was published.
– 1899 – The first radio signal of a disaster at sea is transmitted.
– 1899 – American astronomer William Pickering discovered Saturn’s moon Phoebus.
– 1929 – The Spanish government closed the University of Madrid due to a student strike.
– 1948 – The Brussels Act on the establishment of the Western military-political alliance was signed.
– 1950 – the 98th chemical element – californium – was discovered in the USA.
– 1958 – “Avangard-1” satellite went into orbit.
– 1959 – The Dalai Lama XIV and his supporters fled Tibet at night to Dharamsala (India).
– 1980 – The British Parliament voted to boycott the Moscow Olympics.
– 1991 – there was a referendum on preserving the USSR. 3/4 of those who voted voted to preserve the USSR.
– 1992 – In a referendum, the white population accepted the new constitution of South Africa.
-1992 – Uzbekistan established diplomatic relations with Spain and Greece.
– 1995 – Armed clashes between OPON and army units in the capital of Azerbaijan – Baku.
– 2001 – The construction of the 224-kilometer-long “Miskin-Uchkuduq” railway was completed.
– 2004 – Two days of rioting began in Kosovo, resulting in the burning of 34 churches and monasteries.
– 2004 – “Uzbekkino” National Agency was established.
– 2021 – A vaccine was brought from India to inoculate against the coronavirus.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 763 – Harun al-Rashid (809) – Caliph of Baghdad from the Abbasid dynasty.
– 1473 – James IV (1513) – King of Scotland from the Stuart dynasty (1488-1513).
– 1834 – Gottlieb Daimler (1900) – German engineer, designer and industrialist, invented the 1st motorcycle.
– 1856 – Mikhail Vrubel (1910) – Russian painter.
– 1881 – Walter Hess (1973) – Swiss physiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1949).
– 1883 – Max Penson (1959) – photographer, one of the founders of photography art in Uzbekistan.
– 1891 – Matvey Manizer (1966) – Russian sculptor.
– 1908 – Boris Polevoy (1981) – Soviet writer.
– 1941 – Davron Salimov (2009) – cameraman, director, honored artist of Uzbekistan.
– 1946 – Sidney Rome – Italian actress, singer.
– 1948 – William Gibson – American fantasy writer.
– 1951 – Kurt Russell – American film actor.
– 1961 – Mamarizo Nurmurodov – Chairman of the Board of the Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan (since 2017).
– 1972 – Oksana Grishchuk is a Soviet and Russian figure skater, the first two-time Olympic champion in ice dancing.
– 1997 – Cathy Ledecky – American swimmer, 5-time Olympian, 14-time world champion.