Who was born on June 22 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 World Rainforest Day.
🌏 World Camel Day.
🌏 World Bathing Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇱🇻 Latvia – Heroes’ Remembrance Day.
🇬🇧 Great Britain – Windy day.
🇧🇾 Belarus, 🇷🇺 Russia, 🇺🇦 Ukraine – Memorial Day for the victims of the Great Patriotic War.
🇮🇷 Iran – National Guild Day.
🇸🇻 Salvador – Teacher’s Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National HVAC Technology Day.
🇭🇷 Croatia – Day of struggle against fascism.
🇨🇳 China, 🇭🇰 Hong Kong, 🇹🇼 Taiwan, 🇲🇴 Macau – Dragon Boat Day.
🇨🇴 Colombia – Lawyers’ Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– Mil. avv. 217 – Ptolemy IV defeats the army of Antiochus III at the Battle of Raphia.
– Mil. av. 168 – The Roman army defeats the Macedonian army at Pydna.
– 1377 – Richard II ascended the throne of England.
– 1498 – The famous historian scientist Mirkhand died
– 1582 – Attack on Khannodzi.
– 1633 – Galileo Galilei renounced the doctrine of the heliocentric world system on his knees at the monastery of Saint Minerva in the Dominican Republic.
– 1671 – Turkey declared war on Rech Pospolita.
– 1675 – Greenwich Observatory was founded.
– 1813 – Battle of Vitoria.
– 1876 – The Spanish Constitution was adopted.
– 1889 – Germany was the first in Europe to introduce old-age pensions.
– 1901 – A. Suvorov Museum was opened in St. Petersburg.
– 1909 – “Russo-Balt” car was presented in Riga.
– 1940 – France surrendered to Germany.
– 1941 – Nazi Germany attacked the USSR.
– 1948 – USSR carried out monetary reform in East Germany.
– 1960 – USSR and China officially cut off relations.
– 1973 – FRG and GDR were admitted to the UN.
– 1978 – Pluto’s moon Charon was discovered.
– 1986 – Diego Maradona, the Argentinian player, scored the “Goal of the Century” with the “Hand of God” against England at the FIFA World Cup in Mexico.
– 1994 – a protocol on the basis of cooperation between Russia and NATO was signed in Brussels within the framework of the “Partnership for Peace” program.
– 1999 – Volcano eruption in the Philippines.
– 2002 – A magnitude 6.5 earthquake in western Iran kills more than 260 people.
– 2009 – the president of Ingushetia was assassinated. Yunus-bek Yevkurov was wounded.
– 2016 – Angren-Pop electrified train service was launched.
– 2022 – A 6.2-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan kills more than 1,000 people.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1757 – George Vancouver (1798) – English explorer.
– 1767 – Wilhelm Humboldt (1835) – German philosopher, philologist, linguist, founder of Berlin University.
– 1805 – Giuseppe Mazzini (1872) – Italian revolutionary, fighter for the unification of Italy.
– 1837 – Paul Morphy (1884) – American chess genius.
– 1863 – Georgy Wolff (1925) – Russian physicist, created X-ray spectroscopy.
– 1864 – Hermann Minkowski (1909) – German mathematician who developed the geometric theory of numbers.
– 1887 – Julian Huxley (1975) – English philosopher, biologist, the first director of UNESCO.
– 1890 – Isaak Zelensky (1938) – USSR statesman and party figure, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR (1929-1931).
– 1898 – Erich Maria Remarque (1970) – German writer.
– 1940 – Daniel Quillen (2011) – American mathematician.
– 1944 – Inoyatov Rustam – State adviser to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan on political and legal issues (2018-2021).
– 1947 – Natalya Varley – film actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
– 1949 – Meryl Streep is an American actress, the winner of three times “Oscar”, nine times “Golden Globe” and other awards.
– 1965 – Dan Brown is a famous American writer.
– 1966 – Emmanuel Senye – French actress.
– 1969 – Shuhratbek Abdurahmanov – statesman of the Republic of Uzbekistan, governor of Andijan region (since 2013).
– 1983 – Mansurbek Chashemov – Uzbek weightlifter and coach, member of the Uzbekistan national team, winner of the Asian Games.
– 1996 – Rodrigo Hernandez – Spanish football player.
– 1997 – Dinah Jane – American singer.