Who was born on May 19 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 World Family Doctors Day.
🌏 World Baking Day.
🌏 Inflammatory Bowel Disease Day.
🔷 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan – Mother’s Day.
🇹🇴 Tonga – Father’s Day.
🇹🇷 Turkey – Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and sports holiday.
🇫🇮 Finland – Day of Remembrance of War Dead.
🇭🇷 Croatia – Day of Scouts.
🇨🇻 Cape Verde – Praia City Day.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka – Memorial Day.
🇦🇲 Armenia – Air Defense Forces Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Hepatitis Screening Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Malcolm X Day.
🇬🇷 Greece – Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide of Greeks in Asia Minor
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression.
🇰🇬 Vietnam – Birthday of Vietnamese genius Ho Chi Minh.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1571 – Miguel López Legaspi founded the city of Manila.
– 1586 – the birthday of the city of Samara.
– 1649 – England was declared a Republic.
– 1712 – The capital of Russia was moved from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
– 1780 – “Black Day”: The sun disappeared over North America.
– 1798 – Napoleon’s march to Egypt began.
– 1801 – A statue named after Alexander Suvorov was opened in Saint Petersburg.
– 1802 – Napoleon founded the Legion of Honor.
– 1907 – The Finnish Football Federation was founded.
– 1910 – Halley’s Comet returns.
– 1919 – the beginning of the revolution for the independence of Turkey.
– 1930 – White women in South Africa were given the right to vote.
– 1934 – coup d’état in Bulgaria.
– 1961 – Venus-1 unmanned spacecraft flew by Venus for the first time.
– 1969 – An uprising against the dictatorship broke out in Rosario (Argentina).
– 1995 – International Islamic Research Center was opened in Tashkent.
– 2012 – “Chelsea” won the UEFA Champions League for the first time.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1762 – Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1814) – German philosopher.
– 1857 – John Abel (1938) – American pharmacologist and biochemist, made a great contribution to endocrinology.
– 1881 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk – the first president of the Republic of Turkey (1923-1938).
– 1890 – Ho Chi Minh (1969) – President of Vietnam (1945-1969).
– 1914 – Perutz Max Ferdinand (2002) – English biochemist (originally Austrian), winner of the Nobel Prize (1962).
– 1925 – Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) (1965) – American fighter for black rights.
– 1937 – Ali Hamroyev – film director, screenwriter, honored artist of Uzbekistan.
– 1938 – Nazar Toraev – physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, scientist who served in Uzbekistan.
– 1942 – Gary Kildall – American programmer and entrepreneur, founder of Digital Research, Inc.
– 1945 – Shuhrat Ergashev – film actor, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1989).
– 1946 – Michele Placido – Italian film actor who played the role of Commissioner Cattani in the film “Sprut”.
– 1976 – Sergey Krushevsky – cyclist, international master of sports (2002), “Pride of Uzbekistan” (2003).
– 1977 – Natalia Oreiro – Uruguayan singer and actress.
– 1979 – Diego Forlan – a member of the Uruguay national team, the best player of the 2010 World Cup.
– 1979 – Andrea Pirlo – Italian football player, world champion 2006).
– 2003 – Jojo Siva – American dancer, singer.