Who was born on May 29 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 International Day of UN Peacekeepers.
🌏 Everest Day.
🌏 World Otter Day.
🌏 World Digestive Health Day.
🔷 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇮🇩 Indonesia – National Elderly Day.
🇹🇷 Turkey – the day of conquest of Istanbul.
🇺🇸 USA – Slime Worm Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Crocodile Day.
🇦🇷 Argentina – Army Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Wisconsin State Day.
🇸🇪 Sweden – Veterans Day.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan – Day of Internal Affairs Officers.
🇵🇱 Poland – Day of Veterans of Military Service Abroad.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan – Armed Forces Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1176 – The Battle of Legnano takes place, the army of the Lombard League defeats the forces of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa.
– 1453 – Ottoman Sultan Fatih Sultan Mehmet Conquered Istanbul and ended the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. The conquest of Istanbul marked the end of the Middle Ages.
– 1660 – Monarchy was restored in England.
-1790 – Rhode Island recognized the US Constitution within the colonies.
– 1802 – physicist and founder of electrometallurgy academician V. V. Petrov discovered the electric arc phenomenon.
– 1832 – The Rideau Canal was opened in Canada.
– 1873 – Russian troops occupied Khiva.
– 1913 – performance of “Bahor” theater.
– 1914 – The Canadian ship “RMS Empress of Ireland” sank in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, killing 1024 passengers.
– 1936 – The law on the Turkish flag was adopted by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
– 1942 – Bing Crosby wrote the bestseller “White Christmas”.
– 1953 – New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first people to climb Everest.
– 1964 – The Palestine National Council announced the establishment of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
– 1985 – Heysel tragedy: 39 people died and 350 were injured during the Liverpool-Juventus match at the Heysel stadium in Belgium in the European Champions Cup final.
– 1988 – US President Ronald Reagan’s visit to the USSR began.
– 1988 – The construction works of Istanbul Strait and Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge were completed.
– 1990 – Boris Yeltsin was elected Supreme Soviet of Russia.
– 1997 – The XII International Tashkent Film Festival “Universal Values and National Development” was held in Tashkent with the participation of cultural and industrial figures from 32 countries and 8 international organizations.
– 2003 – at the summit of the SCO in Moscow, it was decided to launch the executive committee of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure in Tashkent;
– 2008 – Nepal was declared a republic.
– 2009 – The President of the United States announced the establishment of a Cyber Security Office in the White House
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1630 – Charles II (1685) – King of England and Scotland (1660-1685).
– 1716 – Louis Jean-Marie Daubanton (1799) – French naturalist.
– 1830 – Louise Michel (1905) – French writer and public figure, hero of the Paris Commune.
– 1855 – David Bruce (1931) – English microbiologist, parasitologist, scientist who discovered disease-causing bacteria.
– 1874 – Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1936) – English writer, journalist, thinker.
– 1912 – Mukhtar Ashrafiy – composer, conductor, professor, pedagogue, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan.
– 1917 – John Kennedy (1963) – 35th president of the USA.
– 1920 – John Harsani (2000) – Hungarian economist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1994).
– 1922 – Salima Askarova (1997) – microbiologist, Honored Scientist of Uzbekistan (1982).
– 1953 – Alexander Abdulov – Russian theater and film actor.
– 1957 – Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (2016) – French mathematician, known for his work on dynamical systems.
– 1959 – Rupert Everett – English actor, writer and singer.
– 1979 – Iroda Dilroz – singer, winner of the “Nihol” award (2001).
– 1981 – Andrey Arshavin – a famous Russian football player.
– 1985 – Shahrukh Khan – Uzbek stage singer and actor.