Who was born on April 26 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – World Intellectual Property Day.
🇺🇳 International Day of Remembrance of the Chernobyl tragedy.
🌏 Undiagnosed Children’s Day.
🌏 International Pilots Day.
🌏 International Secretaries Day.
👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇸 USA – National Kids and Pets Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Arbor Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Dissertation Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Tatar Language Day.
🇹🇿 Tanzania – National Unity Day.
🇦🇲 Armenia – Day of Border Guards.
🇷🇺 Russia – Day of Remembrance of Victims of Radiation Accidents and Disasters.
🇲🇾 Malaysia – Birthday of Sultan Terengganu.
👉 EVENTS:
– Mil. av. 1457 – Battle of Megiddo: The forces of Pharaoh Thutmose III defeat a coalition of kings of northern Syria and Palestine.
– 1164 – In Vladimir, Prince Andrey Bogolyubsky built the Golden Gate on the model of the Kiev Gate, and Vladimir completed the construction of the fortress walls.
– 1607 – The first English settlers of America arrived at Cape Henry (Virginia).
– 1658 – by the decree of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, the main tower of the Moscow Kremlin was renamed Spasskaya.
– 1755 – Moscow State University was founded.
– 1792 – the birthday of the revolutionary anthem “Marseilles”.
– 1795 – The Russian Empire annexed Courland.
– 1798 – France annexed the Republic of Geneva.
– 1803 – Thousands of meteorite fragments fell to the ground near the city of L’Aigle. This phenomenon convinced European scientists of the existence of meteorites.
– 1828 – The Russian Empire declared war against the Ottoman Empire.
– 1912 – Russian animators created the first puppet film.
– 1920 – Khorezm People’s Soviet Republic was established.
– 1921 – Police patrols on motorcycles appeared on the streets of London for the first time.
– 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg was elected president of the Weimar Republic.
– 1954 – the Supreme Council of the USSR approved the decree of its Presidium on the transfer of the Crimea region from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR and made appropriate amendments to the Constitution of the USSR.
– 1964 – Merger of Tanganyika and Zanzibar into the Republic of Tanzania.
– 1966 – an 8-point earthquake occurred in Tashkent.
– 1986 – One of the biggest man-made disasters in the history of mankind: an accident occurred at the Chernobyl NPP.
– 1991 – The first international festival of satire and humor “Kulgi-91” dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Arkady Raikin was opened in Riga.
– 1994 – the last fundamental particle, the t-quark, was discovered.
– 1994 – South Africa held its first non-racial election. The African National Congress (ANC) led by Nelson Mandela won and Nelson Mandela was elected the president of the Republic of South Africa.
– 1996 – “Amir Temur” Order was established.
– 1996 – the honorary title “Honored Journalist of the Republic of Uzbekistan” was established.
– 1998 – The State Duma approved Sergey Kiriyenko as the head of the government of the Russian Federation.
– 1999 – “Chernobyl” computer virus infected about half a million computers worldwide.
– 2002 – Massacre at the Gutenberg Gymnasium in Erfurt, 17 people were killed.
– 2003 – After a 12-year hiatus, the Russian expedition raised the Russian flag – the tricolor at a station located in the central Arctic – a rotating ice sheet 150 km from the North Pole.
– 2015 – Presidential elections in Kazakhstan: Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has been in power since 1991, received 97.75% of the vote.
– 2019 – One of the highest-grossing films of all time, Avengers: Endgame opened at the US box office, grossing $2.8 billion.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 121 – Marcus Aurelius – Roman emperor (161-180), philosopher
– 1575 – Maria de’ Medici – Queen of France (1600-1614), wife of Henry IV, mother of Louis XIII.
– 1660 – Defoe Daniel (1731) – English writer, publicist, one of the founders of realistic prose.
– 1710 – Thomas Read (1796) – founder of the Scottish “common sense” school of philosophy.
– 1798 – Victor Eugène (1863) is a French artist, a major representative of progressive romanticism.
– 1812 – Alfred Krupp (1887) – German industrialist and inventor, founder of “Krupp” metallurgical and engineering concern.
– 1886 – Abdulla Tokay (1913) – Tatar poet, literary critic, publicist and translator.
– 1886 – Ma Rainey (real name Gertrude Pridgett; 1939) – American singer, “mother of the blues”.
– 1889 – Ludwig Wittgenstein (1951) – Austrian philosopher and logician, representative of analytical philosophy.
– 1896 – Lutfikhanim Sarimsokova (1991) – a bright star of Uzbek theater and cinema.
– 1898 – Vicente Alessandre (1984) – Spanish poet, winner of the Nobel Prize (1977).
– 1918 – Fanny Blankers-Kun (2004) – Dutch athlete, four-time Olympic champion.
– 1925 – Mikel Ferrero is an Italian businessman, the owner of the Ferrero confectionery company founded by his father Pietro Ferrero.
– 1925 – Rahim Nurmuhamedov – surgeon and gerontological scientist, honored scientist of Uzbekistan (1975).
– 1932 – Michael Smith (2000) – Canadian biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1993).
– 1933 – Arno Allan Penzias – German-American astrophysicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1978).
– 1936 – Botir Zakirov (1985) – People’s Artist of Uzbekistan.
– 1938 – Jamal Kamal – People’s Poet of Uzbekistan (1992).
– 1954 – Muhammad Yusuf – (2001) – People’s poet of Uzbekistan (1998), public figure.
– 1963 – Jet Li – Chinese film actor, wushu master.
– 1970 – Melania Trump is an American fashion model and designer, the wife of Donald Trump.
– 1972 – Nikolai Luhansky – Russian pianist, teacher, People’s Artist of Russia.
– 1974 – Ilhom Farmonov – singer, honored artist of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
– 1980 – Bekzod Tajiyev – Uzbek actor and director.
– 1991 – Jørgen Grobak – Norwegian biathlete, two-time Olympic champion (2014).
– 2006 – Kamila Valiyeva – Russian figure skating master, Olympic champion (2022).