Who was born on June 29 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – International Tropical Day.
🌏 International Industrial Design Day.
🌏 International Fishermen’s Day.
👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇮🇩 Indonesia – Family Day.
🇦🇲 Armenia – MIA Azatamartik Memorial Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Day of Partisans and Secret Fighters.
🇫🇯 Fiji – National Sports Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Work at Home Day.
🇮🇳 India – National Statistics Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Shipmen’s Day.
🇵🇫 French Polynesia – Autonomy Day.
🇸🇨 Seychelles – Independence Day.
🇪🇨 Ecuador – Engineers’ Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1174 – Poltava was mentioned for the first time in the Ipatiev Chronicle under the name of Ltava. The name Poltava appeared in 1430.
– 1540 – Frühbottin, Prista, victim of a witch hunt, burned at the stake.
– 1613 – The Globe Theater burned down in London.
– 1855 – The Daily Telegraph is published.
– 1880 – France annexed Tahiti.
– 1871 – The first Trade Union Act is passed in the British Parliament.
– 1881 – Sudanese Mullah Muhammad al-Mahdi led the Mahdi revolution.
– 1888 – One of the oldest surviving voice recordings was recorded.
– 1913 – The Second Balkan War began.
– 1916 – the first flight of “Boing” in America.
– 1922 – Fyodor Chaliapin went on a tour abroad and did not return.
– 1925 – American Marvin Pipkin received a patent for a dim-coated light bulb.
– 1945 – Czechoslovakia gave the Carpathian lands to the USSR.
– 1946 – “Agata” operation: 2.7 thousand Jews were imprisoned in Palestine.
– 1958 – Brazil became the world champion in football for the first time.
– 1964 – The TV remote control was created.
– 1973 – There was an attempted military coup in Chile known as “tankaso”.
– 1976 – Seychelles was declared independent.
– 1982 – Strategic arms limitation negotiations between the USSR and the USA began in Geneva.
– 1986 – Argentina national team became the world champion in football.
– 1991 – After the declaration of independence of Slovenia and Croatia, civil war broke out in Yugoslavia.
– 1996 – About 1,200 prisoners were killed during a riot in Abu Salim (Libya) prison.
– 2001 – Kofi Annan was re-elected for a second term as UN Secretary General.
– 2007 – Apple introduced the iPhone.
– 2008 – Thomas Beety, a pregnant man, gave birth to a girl.
– 2012 – Attempt to hijack a Chinese airliner in Khotan.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1326 – Murad I (1451) – 3rd sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1362-1389).
– 1397 – Juan II (1479) – King of Aragon (1458-1479), King of Navarre (1425-1479).
– 1516 – Rembert Dodoens (1585) – Flemish botanist, physician, geographer, astronomer.
– 1798 – Giacomo Leopardi (1837) – Italian poet, philosopher.
– 1888 – Alexander Friedman (1925) – Russian mathematician and geophysicist.
– 1894 – Pavel Viktorovich Gan –
Honored artist, sculptor-painter of Uzbekistan.
– 1895 – Mikhail Zoshchenko (1958) – Russian writer, humorist.
– 1900 – Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1944) – French writer and pilot.
– 1926 – Oriana Fallaci (2006) – Italian writer.
– 1957 – Maria Conchita Alonso – American actress and singer.
– 1957 – Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov – President of Turkmenistan (2007-2022).
– 1964 – Soso Pavliliashvili – Russian and Georgian pop singer, actor.
– 1968 – Zafar Hoshimov – Uzbek businessman, founder of “Anglesey Food” LLC, which includes “Korzinka.uz”, “korzinka.uz discount”, smart stores
– 1969 – Mahmudov Mahtumkuli – wrestler, international master of sports, “Pride of Uzbekistan” (2000).
– 1972 – Samantha Smith (1985) – American student – “goodwill ambassador”.
– 1979 – Arthur Avila – Brazilian mathematician.
– 1980 – Teja Gregorin – Slovenian biathlete.
– 1991 – Addison Timlin – American film actress.
– 1995 – Eldor Shomurodov – Uzbek football player, striker!