Who was born on June 23 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – United Nations Public Service Day.
🇺🇳 International Widows’ Day.
🌍 World Whistleblowers Day.
🌏 International Olympic Day.
🌏 International Day of Women Engineers.
🌏 International Day of Women Inspectors.
🌎 Pink Flamingo Day.
🌏 Birthday of the typewriter.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇵🇱 Poland, 🇳🇮 Nicaragua – Father’s Day.
🇨🇭 Switzerland – Jura Independence Day.
🇨🇦 Canada – National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism.
🇯🇵 Japan – Okinawa Memorial Day.
🇦🇲 Armenia – Day of fitness and sports.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan, 🇺🇦 Ukraine, 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan, 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan – Civil servants’ day.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan – Police Day.
🇱🇺 Luxembourg – Grand Duke’s birthday.
🇪🇪 Estonia – Victory Day.
🇦🇹 Latvia – Ligo Day.
🇪🇸 Spain – Feast of Saint John.
🇦🇩 Moldova – Declaration of Sovereignty Day.
🇳🇴 Norway, 🇩🇰 Denmark – St. Hans Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Balalaika Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 479 – Shun-di, the last Southern Sun emperor deposed by the commander Xiao Daochen a month earlier, is killed.
– 1305 – France and Flanders conclude the Treaty of Atys.
– 1314 – English army defeated at Bennockburn.
– 1710 – After a two-month siege, the Russian army entered Vyborg.
– 1757 – The Battle of Plessy began the collapse of the Baburi state.
– 1803 – Robert Fulton demonstrated the first steamboat to the public on the Seine River.
– 1846 – Adolf Sax patented the saxophone.
– 1860 – The US Secret Service was established.
– 1865 – the civil war in the USA ended.
– 1868 – Christopher Letham Sholes received a patent for the typewriter.
– 1894 – International Olympic Committee was established.
– 1919 – adoption of the republican constitution by the Finnish Sejm.
-1924 – The murderer Fritz Haarmann was captured in Hanover.
– 1934 – the first heroes were awarded the Order of Lenin and Hero of the Soviet Union in the Kremlin.
– 1948 – introduction of a separate West German stamp in West Berlin.
– 1956 – Jamal Abdul Nasser was elected president of Egypt.
– 1989 – Islam Karimov was appointed the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Uzbek SSR.
– 1993 – The Olympic Museum was founded in Lausanne.
– 1996 – Uzbekistan established diplomatic relations with Brunei.
– 1998 – Human brain cells were transplanted for the first time in the world.
– 2006 – 175-year-old tortoise Harietta died in an Australian zoo.
– 2016 – The people of Great Britain voted to leave the European Union in a referendum.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1668- Giambattista Vico (1744) – Italian philosopher, founder of philosophy of history and ethnic psychology.
– 1750 – Deoda de Dolomieux (1801) – a French geologist and mineralogist, named after the mineral dolomite.
– 1763 – Josephine de Beaugarne (1814) – Napoleon Bonaparte’s first wife.
– 1855 – Lydia Seraskaya (1931) – a Russian female astronomer who discovered 219 moving stars.
– 1889 – Anna Akhmatova (Gorenko) (1966) – Russian Soviet poetess, translator and literary critic.
– 1894 – Edward VIII (1972) – King of Great Britain (1936), abdicated in favor of his lover.
– 1903 – Anne Revere (1990) – American film actress.
– 1907 – James Mead (1995) – English economist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1977).
– 19010 – Konstantinov Boris (1969) – Russian physicist.
– 1911 – Nikolai Kuznetsov (1995) – Russian designer of jet aircraft engines, twice Hero of Labor (1957, 1981).
– 1912 – Alan Mathison Turing (1954) – English mathematician, developed the first EHMs.
– 1952 – Armen Sargsyan – Armenian physicist, technologist and politician, president of the country since 2018.
– 1965 – Valery Meladze – singer, honored artist of Russia.
– 1972 – Zinedine Zidane – French football player, world champion (1998), European champion (2000), best player in the world (1998, 2000, 2003), coach.
– 1976 – Patrick Vieira – French football player.
– 1992 – Luiza Galiulina – Uzbek gymnast, member of the national team of Uzbekistan, winner of the Asian Games and the World Cup in gymnastics.
– 1995 – Danna Paola is a Mexican singer and actress.