Who was born on May 20 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – International Bee Day.
🌏 World Metrology Day.
🌏 International day of traumatologists.
🌎 International Clinical Trials Day.
🌏 World Autoimmune Arthritis Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇪🇺 European Union – European Seas Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Volga River Day.
🇵🇭 Philippines – Philippine Navy Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Day of Bank Employees.
🇺🇸 USA – National Rescue Dog Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Sign Language Interpreter Day.
🇹🇱 East Timor – Independence Day.
🇲🇨 Indonesia – National Awakening Day.
🇰🇾 Cayman Islands – Discovery Day.
🇨🇲 Cameroon – National Day.
🇰🇭 Cambodia – Memorial Day.
🇨🇦 Canada – Victory Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1202 – Earthquake in Syria.
– 1217 – Battle of Lincoln
– 1498 – Vasco da Gama arrived in India.
– 1570 – Abraham Ortelius created the map “Theatrum Orbis Terrarum”.
– 1756 – The Seven Years’ War broke out.
– 1873 – Levi Strauss & Co. received a patent for the production of new pants. Jinsi’s official birthday.
– 1875 – Metric Convention was signed by 17 countries in Paris.
– 1882 – Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy formed the Triple Alliance.
– 1900 – The II Olympic Games began in France.
– 1927 – Great Britain recognized the independence of Saudi Arabia.
– 1972 – A referendum in Cameroon changed this country from a federal republic to a unitary republic
– 1995 – Days of Uzbekistan were opened in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
– 1996 – A scientific-practical conference was held in Tashkent on the topic “The path of mutual enrichment of the cultures of the Middle East and Central Asia”.
– 2002 – East Timor gained independence and Shanana Gujmau was elected as its first president.
– 2003 – the first flight of the private manned spacecraft “SpaceShipOne”.
– 2006 – The eighth meeting between Uzbekistan and Japan on economic cooperation issues was completed.
– 2009 – “Shakhtar” football club of Donetsk won the UEFA Cup for the first time in its history.
– 2019 – Volodymyr Zelensky became the president of Ukraine.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1799 – Honoré de Balzac (1850) – famous French writer.
– 1804 – Mikhail Glinka (1857) – one of the leaders of world classical music, Russian composer.
– 1822 – Frédéric Passy (1912) – French economist, winner of the world’s first Nobel Prize (1901).
– 1851 – Emil Berliner (1929) – German inventor, who created the first sound recording equipment – the gramophone.
– 1860 – Eduard Buchner (died 1917), German chemist and biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1907).
– 1882 – Sigrid Unset (1949) – Norwegian writer, winner of the Nobel Prize (1928).
– 1901 – Max Eive (1981) – Dutch chess player, 5th world champion.
– 1914 – Zunnun Madaliyev (1980) – actor and director, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1967).
– 1916 – Alexey Maresyev (2001) – pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, prototype of the hero of B. Polevoy’s book “The Story of a True Man”.
– 1923 – Nadine Gordimer (2014) – South African writer, winner of the Nobel Prize (1991).
– 1923 – Sarvar Azimov (1994) – People’s writer of Uzbekistan.
– 1937 – Tursunoy Okhunova (1983) – the initiator of the movement to master cotton picking techniques among Uzbek women, 2 times Hero of Labor (1959, 1978),
– 1943 – Al Bano – Italian pop singer.
– 1946 – Sher – American Armenian singer.
– 1955 – Walter Isaacson – American journalist, writer and biographer.
– 1981 – Iker Casillas – former goalkeeper of the Spanish national football team.
– 1982 – Petr Cech is a former goalkeeper of the Czech national football team.