Who was born on May 26 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 World Red Hair Day.
🌏 World Dracula Day.
👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇭🇺 Hungary – Children’s Day.
🇵🇱 Poland, 🇫🇷France, 🇩🇿 Algeria, 🇲🇬 Madagascar, 🇲🇦 Morocco, 🇸🇳 Senegal, 🇹🇳 Tunisia – Mother’s Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Paper Airplane Day.
🇦🇺 Australia – National Forgiveness Day.
🇦🇲 Armenia – Day of the Battle of Sardarabad.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan – Turkmen Carpet Day.
🇻🇪 Venezuela – Arbor Day.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan – Defense lawyer day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine, 🇷🇺 Russia, 🇰🇿Kazakhstan, 🇧🇾 Belarus – Day of Chemical Industry Employees.
🇩🇰 Denmark – Crown Prince Frederik’s birthday.
🇷🇺 Russia – Entrepreneurship Day.
🇰🇭 Cambodia – Royal plowing ceremony.
🇬🇾 Guyana – Independence Day.
🇬🇪 Georgia – Independence Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 451 – Battle of Avarai.
– 1135 – Alfonso VII was proclaimed Emperor of all Spain in the Cathedral of Leon.
– 1648 – Bogdan Khmelnitsky defeated the Poles near Korsun.
– 1679 – The English Parliament passed the Habeas Corpus Act.
– 1707 – Bourbon coalition forces capture Zaragoza during the War of Succession to the Spanish throne.
– 1761 – Mikhail Lomonosov discovered the atmosphere of the planet Venus.
– 1799 – The army of the Russian Empire led by A. Suvorov invaded Turin.
– 1805 – The iron crown of Lombardy was placed on the head of Napoleon I in the church of Milan.
-1828 – Caspar Hauser was found in Nuremberg.
– 1868 – the last mass execution in England.
– 1897 – B. Stoker published the novel “Dracula”.
– 1899 – the ceremonial opening ceremony of the Fargona region folk museum was held.
– 1918 – The Transcaucasian Federation was divided into three independent republics: Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
– 1928 – The FIFA organization decided to hold the world football championship every four years.
– 1938 – “Volkswagen” car company was founded in Wolfsburg, Germany.
– 1948 – apartheid policy was announced in South Africa.
– 1953 – Norilsk uprising of Gorlag prisoners began.
– 1947 – the death penalty was abolished in the USSR (reestablished in 1950).
– 1966 – Republic of Guyana declared its independence.
– 1972 – Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signed the Treaty on Limiting Anti-Missile Defense Systems in Moscow.
– 1991 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia won the presidential election of Georgia.
– 1994 – “Navroz” International Charitable Fund was established.
– 2014 – Fighting began at Donetsk airport.
– 2020 – Mass demonstrations against racial discrimination began in the United States.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1265 – Dante Alighieri (1321) – Florentine poet, one of the founders of the Italian literary language, thinker, theologian, political figure, author of the famous “Divine Comedy”.
– 1568 – Muhammad III, Mehmed III (1603) – Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
– 1814 – Heinrich Geisler (1879) – German scientist, inventor of unique instruments, thermometers, chemical equipment.
– 1822 – Edmond De Goncourt (1896) – French writer.
– 1876 – Robert Yerkes (1956) – psychologist, founded ethology in the USA.
– 1877 – Isadora Duncan (1927) – American dancer.
– 1877 – Edward Grüneisen (1949) – German physicist, founder of solid state theory.
– 1905 – Aldo Gucci (1990) – Italian dress designer, fashion designer.
– 1909 – Matt Busby (1994) is a famous English coach who devoted his whole life to Manchester United.
– 1938 – Bakhtiyor Aliyev – dustman, composer, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1983).
– 1947 – Tilak Jora (1994) – sensitive poet, literary critic, translator.
– 1966 – Helena Bonham Carter – British theater, film and television actress.
– 1969 – Angelika Varum – pop singer, honored artist of Russia.
– 1971 – Matt Richard Stone – American animator, film producer, screenwriter, actor, and composer.
– 1974 – Sherzodkhan Qudrathoja – journalist, TV presenter, political scientist, rector of the University of Journalism and Mass Communications of Uzbekistan, chairman of the NGO “International Press Club”.
– 1977 – Luca Toni – Italian football player, world champion (2006).
– 1988 – Akito Watabe – Japanese biathlete, two-time Olympic medalist, world champion.
– 2000 – Hanna Neise – German skeleton athlete, Olympic champion.