Who was born on April 21 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – World Creativity and Innovation Day.
🌏 World Longnose Day.
🌏 International Hemp Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇸 USA – National Kindergarten Day.
🇮🇹 Italy – the day Rome was founded.
🇬🇧 Great Britain – National Tea Day.
🇻🇳 Vietnam – Book Day.
🇵🇭 Philippines – Calamba City Day.
🇰🇵 DPRK – Kan Pan Sok’s birthday.
🇷🇺 Russia – Day of local self-government bodies.
🇰🇪 Kenya – Arbor Day.
🇲🇽 Mexico – Heroic defense of Veracruz.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan – Science Day.
🇮🇳 India – Public Service Day.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan – State Security Service Day.
🇧🇷 Brazil – Tiradentes Day. In 1792, the Portuguese executed Tiradentes, who fought for the independence of Brazil.
👉 EVENTS:
– mile. av. 753 – Romulus is believed to have founded Rome on this day.
– 1408 – Mironshah, the son of Amir Temur, who became famous in the west as the patron of the Catholic religion, died.
– 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés’ ship anchored off the coast of Mexico.
– 1526 – First Battle of Panipat. Babur’s army won over Ibrahim Lodi’s army.
– 1782 – King Buddha Yodfa Chulalok founded the new capital of Siam (Thailand). It is known to us as Bangkok.
– 1809 – Battle of Landshut. The 77,000-strong French army led by Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the 36,000-strong Austrian army.
– 1863 – London Underground opened.
– 1898 – The Spanish-American War began. The US fleet began to blockade Cuban ports.
– 1918 – The Soviet government dissolved the National Parliament (National Assembly) of the Muslims of Inner Russia and Siberia.
– 1926 – Kyrgyz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established.
– 1938 – President of Muslim League, poet Muhammad Iqbal passed away. Iqbal is considered the spiritual father of Pakistan.
– 1944 – Women won the right to vote in France.
– 1960 – Brasilia became the new capital of Brazil. Before that, Rio de Janeiro was the capital.
– 1964 – British television channel “BBC 2” began broadcasting.
– 1967 – Black colonels organized a coup d’état in Greece.
– 1975 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu flees the capital Saigon for his life. The North Vietnamese army captured the last stronghold on the way to capture the capital of South Vietnam.
– 1983 – One pound notes are replaced by one pound coins in Great Britain.
– 1989 – About 100,000 students accused of involvement in the death of Chinese government leader Hu Yaobang gathered in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
– 1992 – The State Museum of the History of Uzbekistan was established in Tashkent.
– 1996 – “Zerkalo” information-analytical program was broadcast for the first time on Russian television.
– 2000 – The Russian State Duma ratified the treaty on the complete cessation of nuclear tests.
– 2019 – A series of terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1619 – Jan van Riebeeck (1677) – Dutch sailor who founded Cape Town.
– 1782 – Friedrich Fröbel (1852) – German pedagogue, founder of “kindergarten”.
– 1816 – Charlotte Bronte (1855) – English writer and poet.
– 1830 – James Starley (1881) – English inventor of the bicycle.
– 1837 – Fredrik Bayer (1922) – Danish politician, founder of the Peace Bureau, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
– 1843 – Walter Flemming (1905) – German anatomist, founder of cytogenetics.
– 1864 – Max Weber (1920) – German sociologist, one of the founders of modern sociology.
– 1882 – Percy Williams Bridgeman (1961) – American physicist and philosopher, winner of the Nobel Prize (1946).
– 1889 – Karrer Paul (1971) – Swiss organic chemist and biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1937).
– 1915 – Anthony Quinn (2001) – American actor, two-time Oscar winner.
– 1926 – Elizabeth II – Queen of Great Britain (since 1952).
– 1939 – Maryam Ikhtiyorova – actress, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1997).
– 1951 – Michael Friedman – American mathematician.
– 1959 – Abdulla Yameen – President of the Republic of Maldives (2013-2018).
– 1985 – Anzur Ismailov – Uzbek football player, defender and midfielder.
– 1990 – Nadezhda Dorofeyeva – Ukrainian singer, designer and video blogger.