Who was born on June 20 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – World Refugee Day.
🌏 World Wi-Fi Day.
🌏 International Tennis Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan – the day of adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
🇺🇸 USA – West Virginia Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National American Eagle Day.
🇦🇺 Australia – Arbor Day.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan – Gas Sector Day.
🇪🇷 Eritrea – Martyrs’ Day.
🇦🇷 Argentina – National Flag Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 404 – Hagia Sophia, which was built as a church on October 15, 360, was burned in a rebellion that occurred on June 20, 404.
– 451 – Battle of Catalonia.
– 1685 – Monmouth Rebellion in England.
– 1792 – Great French Revolution: popular uprising in Paris.
– 1793 – American Eli Whitney received a patent for a cotton gin.
– 1837 – Victoria I ascended the throne of Great Britain.
– 1840 – Samuel Morse received a patent for the telegraph.
– 1895 – The Kiel Canal connecting the Baltic and North Seas was opened.
– 1933 – The General Prosecutor’s Office of the USSR was established.
– 1933 – Clara Setkin died in exile in Moscow.
– 1945 – The victory flag placed on the Reichstag was brought from Berlin to Moscow.
– 1949 – The Pope anathemas the communist leaders of Czechoslovakia.
– 1950 – “Pravda” newspaper published Stalin’s article “Marxism and Linguistics”.
– 1954 – “Dostlik” bridge on the Danube river was opened between Bulgaria and Romania.
– 1963 – a “hotline” line was created between the USSR and the USA.
– 1967 – Muhammad Ali was sentenced to 5 years in prison for refusing to serve in the US Army fighting in Vietnam.
– 1990 – the capital of Germany moved from Bonn to Berlin.
– 1990 — The Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopted the declaration of independence of Uzbekistan.
– 1990 – the constitution of 1922 was restored in Latvia.
– 1993 – the first train service through the Eurotunnel under the English Channel was tested.
– 2003 – The Wikimedia Foundation was established.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1583 – Sigismund Vaza (1632) – King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania (1587-1632) and King of Sweden (1592-1599).
– 1819 – Jacques Offenbach (1880) – French composer, founder of classical operetta.
– 1861 – Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1947) – English physician and biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1929).
– 1905 – Imamkhojayev Artikkhoja (1996) – singer, People’s Court of Uzbekistan (1949).
– 1915 – Terence Young (1994) – English film director and screenwriter.
– 1919 – Karimov Muhammadjon (1998) – singer, People’s Court of Uzbekistan (1992).
– 1927 – Simin Behbahani (2014) – famous Iranian poet and writer.
– 1932 – Sayfi Jalili (2003) – famous composer, musician and conductor, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan.
– 1932 – Robert Rozhdestvensky (1994) – Russian Soviet poet and translator.
– 1967 – Nicole Kidman – Australian actress, winner of such awards as “Oscar”, “BAFTA”, “Golden Globe”.
– 1978 – Frank Lampard – English football player, coach and children’s writer.
– 1983 – Ignatiy Nesterov – former goalkeeper of the national football team of Uzbekistan.
– 1987 – Gulhida Jorayeva is a well-known Uzbek journalist and TV presenter. Winner of the “Golden Pen” award (2014).
– 1998 – Muslima Odilova – Uzbek paralympic swimmer, member of the national team of Uzbekistan.