Who was born on March 25 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 Day of Remembrance for the Victims of International Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
🇺🇳 UN – International Day of Solidarity with Missing and Imprisoned Staff.
🌏 Earth Hour Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇪🇺 European Union – European Union Talent Day.
🇸🇮 Slovenia – Mother’s Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Medal of Honor Day.
🇸🇪 Sweden – Crane Day.
🇸🇰 Slovakia – Day of struggle for human rights.
🇱🇻 Latvia – Day of Remembrance of Victims of Communist Terror.
🇳🇿 New Zealand – Army Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Day of security service personnel.
🇧🇾 Belarus – Freedom Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Day of Culture Workers.
🇸🇲 San Marino – Anniversary of Arengo.
🇬🇷 Greece – Independence Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 421 – The city of Venice was founded.
– 1238 – the beginning of the 50-day heroic defense of Kozelsk. After capturing the city, the Mongols massacred everyone, including the babies.
– 1305 – Scrovegna Chapel lit up in Padua.
– 1306 – Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.
– 1420 – The army of peasants led by Jan Ijizka defeated Sigismund’s army.
– 1436 – Pope Eugene IV opened a church in Florence.
– 1532 – The History of Florence by Nicola Machiavelli is published in Rome
– 1655 – Christian Huygens discovered Saturn’s moon Titan.
– 1815 – the 7th anti-French coalition was formed (Russia, Great Britain, Austria and Prussia).
– 1821 – Greece declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
– 1864 – Battle of Paducah.
– 1918 – The creation of the People’s Republic of Belarus was announced in Minsk.
– 1919 – Playwright, publicist, religious and public figure, one of the leaders of Jadidist movement, Mahmudhoja Behbudi was arrested in Shahrisabz and thrown into the prison in Karshi.
– 1930 – Tugsbuyant uprising began in Mongolia.
– 1949 – Mass deportation of tens of thousands of Estonians, Lithuanians, and Latvians to Siberia began.
– 1957 – The Treaty of Rome on the establishment of the European Economic Cooperation Council was signed.
– 1992 – The National Association of International Cultural and Educational Relations of the Republic of Uzbekistan was established.
– 1992 – Uzbekistan established diplomatic relations with Austria.
– 1997 – A legendary sea treasure was found off the coast of Ecuador.
– 2002 – Epilepsy gene discovered.
– 2018 – A fire broke out in the shopping and entertainment complex “Winter Cherry” in Kemerovo.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1611 – Saint Chalabi (1642) – a famous tourist from Turkey and a scientist who thoroughly mastered Arabic, Persian and Greek languages, history, geography and poetry (poetics).
– 1614 – Juan Carreno de Miranda (1685) – Spanish painter of the Baroque period.
– 1835 – Adolf Wagner (1917) – German economist.
– 1867 – Arturo Toscanini (1957) – Italian conductor.
– 1871 – Igor Grabar (1960) – painter and art critic.
– 1881 – Béla Bartók (1945) – Hungarian composer, pianist, ethnomusicologist and pedagogue.
– 1936 – Akhmed Shoymurodov – sculptor.
– 1937 – Maria Pakhomenko (2013) – Soviet and Russian pop singer, people’s artist.
– 1942 – Aretha Franklin (2018) – American singer, songwriter, actress, pianist and civil rights activist.
– 1947 – Sir Elton John – English singer, songwriter, pianist and composer.
-1951 – Sadulla Hakim – Uzbek poet.
– 1956 – Yefim Shifrin – Soviet and Russian actor, entertainer, director, writer.
– 1976 – Bakhtiyor Ashurmatov – football player, played for the national football team of Uzbekistan and the Bunyodkor club.
– 1984 – Catherine McPhee – American singer, poet, actress, model.
– 1994 – Justin Dufour-Lapointe – Canadian freestyler (mogul), Olympic champion (2014), world champion.
– 2007 – Kylie Fleming is an American actress.