Who was born on June 24 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 Women’s Day in International Diplomacy.
🌏 International Fairy Day.
🌍 International Scoliosis Awareness Day.
🌏 World History Day.
🔷 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇵🇭 Philippines – Manila Day.
🇨🇦 Canada, Quebec – Quebec National Day.
🏴 Scotland – Bannockburn Day.
🇳🇱 Netherlands – Veterans Day.
🇫🇮 Finland – Flag Day.
🇵🇪 Peru – Inti Raymi.
🇮🇩 Indonesia – National Midwife Day.
🇬🇧 Great Britain – Armed Forces Day.
🇷🇺 Russia, 🇧🇾 Belarus – Day of Inventors and Innovators.
🇻🇪 Venezuela – Carabobo Battle Day.
🇫🇮 Finland, 🇸🇪 Sweden – Midsummer day.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan – Day of workers of engineering industry.
🇨🇴 Lithuania – Kupala holiday.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1314 – In the battle near Bannockburn, the Scots defeated the English and regained their independence.
– 1497 – The island of Newfoundland is discovered.
– 1571 – The city of Manila was founded.
– 1793 – The Constitution was adopted in France.
– 1812 – Napoleon’s army crossed the Neman River and invaded Russia.
– 1901 – The first exhibition of 19-year-old Pablo Picasso was opened in Paris.
– 1916 – Mary Pickford signed the biggest contract of any Hollywood star.
– 1930 – Radar was used for the first time to detect aircraft.
– 1934 – the capital of Ukraine was moved from Kharkiv to Kiev.
– 1945 – Victory parade in Moscow.
– 1951 – Color commercial television (CBS) begins.
– 1959 – in Moscow, N. Khrushchev promised to show the “Mother of Kuzka” to US Vice President Richard Nixon.
– 1963 – The International Women’s Congress was opened in Moscow.
– 1973 – Leonid Brezhnev announced the end of the Cold War during his official visit to the United States.
– 1990 – Viktor Soya’s Kino group held its last concert at Luzhniki stadium.
– 1992 – The first issue of “Vatanparvar” newspaper was published.
– 2010 – The new leader of the ruling Labor Party in Australia and the country’s prime minister became the first woman – Julia Gillard.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1771 – Elether DuPont (1834) – French industrialist, founder and first president of the DuPont company.
– 1795 – Ernst Weber (1878) – German psychophysiologist and anatomist.
– 1838 – Jan Matejko (1893) – Polish painter.
– 1842 – Ambroise Bierce (1914) – American writer and journalist.
– 1852 – Friedrich Loeffer (1915) – German bacteriologist, one of the founders of medical microbiology.
– 1881 – Grigory Kotovsky (1925) – revolutionary, hero of the Russian Civil War, Soviet military officer and politician.
– 1883 – Victor Franz Hess (1964) – Austrian and American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1936).
– 1900 – Mikhail Zapashny (1982) – Soviet artist, founder of the Zapashny circus dynasty.
– 1914 – Safo Muhamedov (1990) – painter, pedagogue, honored artist of Uzbekistan (1971).
– 1927 – Martin Perl (2014) – American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1995).
– 1968 – Boris Gelfand – Soviet and Israeli chess player, grandmaster.
– 1987 – Lionel Messi is a professional soccer player who plays for the Inter Miami soccer club and the Argentina national soccer team.
– 1989 – Shuhrat Muhammadiyev – football player, player of Nasaf and Uzbekistan national teams.
– 1993 – Hasanboy Dostmatov – one of the famous boxers in Uzbekistan, Olympic champion (2016).
– 1997 – Jasurbek Yakshoboyev – winger of Navbahor club and national team of Uzbekistan.