Who was born on May 22 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – International Biodiversity Day.
🌏 Sherlock Holmes Day.
🌏 Birthday of the toothpaste tube.
👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka – Republic Day.
🇬🇹 Guatemala, 🇪🇨 Ecuador – Arbor Day.
🇧🇷 Brazil – Anniversary of the Brazilian Air Force.
🇺🇸 USA – National Maritime Day.
🇾🇪 Yemen – Unity Day.
🇲🇶 Martinique – Abolition Day.
🇯🇵 Japan – Girl Scout Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 853 – Olaf the White, son of a Norwegian king, conquers the Vikings and Danes in Ireland and makes Dublin the capital.
– 1455 – The War of the Red and White Roses begins with the first battle near St. Albans.
– 1621 – Hugo Grotius escaped from Louvestein Castle.
– 1762 – The construction of the Trevi Fountain in Rome was completed. 1844 – The principles of Babism began to spread among Muslims.
– 1846 – “Associated Press” information agency was founded in New York.
– 1849 – Abraham Lincoln received patent #6469 for his floating dock design.
– 1856 – Tretyakov Gallery was founded in Moscow.
– 1892 – Dr. Washington Sheffield received a patent for a tube of toothpaste.
– 1906 – The Wright brothers received a patent for their flying machine.
– 1911 – The International Kennel Federation was founded in Paris.
– 1911 – the world’s first television broadcast was made in St. Petersburg.
– 1939 – “Iron Pact” was signed between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
– 1940 – the medal of the Hero of Socialist Labor – the “Hammer and Sickle” medal was established in the USSR, it was awarded to more than 16 thousand people.
– 1960 – Chile earthquake, the worst earthquake in human history.
– 1972 – Richard Nixon came to Moscow.
– 1972 – Ceylon adopted a new constitution and the country was transformed into the Republic of Sri Lanka.
-1980 – the first official release of the Pac-Man computer game.
– 1990 – Microsoft released Windows 3.0.
– 1990 – After years of conflict, North and South Yemen unite to form a single Republic of Yemen.
– 1998 – Rustam Rajapov, the first Uzbek mountaineer, conquered the highest peak of Mount Jomolungma and planted the flag of Uzbekistan there.
– 2007 – A terrorist act was committed in the historical center of Ankara in Turkey. Several people died.
– 2010 – Boeing 737 crash in Mangalore (India). 158 people died.
– 2014 – military coup in Thailand.
– 2017 – Explosion in Manchester.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1813 – Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1883) – German opera composer, conductor, dramatist, philosopher, revolutionary.
– 1859 – Arthur Conan Doyle (1930) – famous English writer.
– 1912 – Herbert Charles Brown (2004) – American organic chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1979).
– 1914 – Nikolai Makarov (1988) – Soviet weapons designer, Hero of Socialist Labor.
– 1920 – Thomas Gold (2004) – American astronomer, one of the authors of the stationary universe theory.
– 1924 – Charles Aznavour (2018) – French actor and singer.
– 1927 – George Ola (2017) – American chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1994).
– 1943 – Betty Williams – founder of the Peace People Community, winner of the Nobel Prize (1976).
– 1946 – George Best (2005) – Legendary Irish football player.
– 1963 – Mirza Azizov (2021) – People’s Artist of Uzbekistan, actor.
– 1969 – Hotamjon Ketmonov – the first deputy head of the state inspection of the quality of education.
– 1970 – Naomi Campbell – English model and actress.
– 1980 – Alexander Doktarashvili – athlete, champion of the Greco-Roman wrestling Olympics (2004, Athens), “Pride of Uzbekistan” (2004).
– 1986 – Tatyana Volosahar – Russian figure skater, two-time Olympic champion.
– 1987 – Novak Djokovic – Serbian tennis master.
– 1991 – Cantin Maye – French handball player, Olympic champion (2020), two-time world champion.