Who was born on May 30 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 International Potato Day.
🌏 World Sclerosis Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇵🇱 Poland – Adoption Day.
🇹🇭 Thailand – King Prachadipok Day.
🇪🇸 Spain – Canary Islands Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Confederate Memorial Day.
🇲🇻 Maldives – National Scout Day.
🇵🇷 Puerto Rico – Lod Massacre Memorial Day.
🇵🇪 Peru – Potato Day.
🇭🇳 Honduras – Arbor Day.
🇳🇮 Nicaragua – Mother’s Day.
🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago – Indian Arrival Day.
🇭🇷 Croatia – Parliament Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 301 – Overthrow of the tyrant Sim Lun in Western Hsin and restoration of Emperor Hui-di (290-301) to the throne.
– 1223 – Battle of Kalka.
– 1381 – Wat Tyler’s Rebellion begins.
– 1416 – Czech religious reformer Hieronymus Prajski burned by the Inquisition.
– 1431 – Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rwanda for witchcraft.
– 1453 – Istanbul University was founded the day after the conquest of Istanbul by Fatih Sultan Mehmet Khan.
– 1498 – The third voyage of Christopher Columbus began.
– 1563 – Battle of Bornholm [de]: A Danish squadron attacks Sweden, starting the Northern Seven Years’ War.
– 1574 – Henry III became King of France.
– 1631 – La Gazette – the first French newspaper was first published.
– 1635 – Thirty Years’ War: The Treaty of Prague is signed, ending the Swedish War era.
– 1778 – French writer and philosopher Voltaire, a French revolutionary and a great contributor to the Spiritual movement, died.
– 1814 – The Treaty of Paris (1814) was signed, ending the War of the Sixth Coalition.
– 1871 – The fall of the Paris Commune.
– 1891 – a highway was opened in Vladivostok.
– 1899 – Acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) was marketed for the first time in Germany.
– 1913 – The 1st Balkan War, which was waged by the Balkan Union of the Kingdom of Bulgaria, the Kingdom of Serbia, the Kingdom of Greece and the Kingdom of Montenegro against the Ottoman Empire, ended.
– 1941 – World War II: Germany occupied the island of Crete.
– 1961 – The USSR became independent from Great Britain.
– 1982 – Spain became the 16th member of NATO.
– 1989 – Chinese students installed the “deity of democracy” in Tiananmen Square.
– 1992 – The UN Security Council imposed an embargo on Serbia in order to stop the war in Bosnia.
– 1999 – 53 people died in the tragedy of Nemiga (Minsk).
– 2008 – An A320 crashes in Tegucigalpa, killing 5.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1423 – Georg von Purbach – Austrian mathematician, astronomer.
– 1846 – Carl Peter Faberge – famous Russian painter.
– 1868 – Abdulmajid II (1944) – the last Ottoman caliph (1922-1924).
– 1908 – Hannes Alven (1995) – Swedish astrophysicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1970).
– 1910 – Mirtemir (1972) – People’s poet of Uzbekistan.
– 1912 – Julius Axelrod (2004) – American biochemist and pharmacologist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1970).
– 1928 – Reza Fazil (2016) – Crimean Tatar writer and journalist.
– 1934 – Alexey Leonov – Soviet cosmonaut, the first man in space, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
– 1937 – Alexander Demyanenko – famous Russian film actor.
– 1941 – Ahmadkhojayev Saidbotir – cameraman and director. Honored Artist of Uzbekistan (1989).
– 1947 – Yuriy Sargsyan – football coach, 5 times the best coach of Uzbekistan (1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2006).
– 1949 – Murad Rajabov – actor and film director, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan.
– 1961 – Arina Sharapova – Russian TV presenter.
– 1963 – Helen Sharman – the first British astronaut.
– 1971 – Idina Kim Menzel – American film actress, singer and songwriter.
– 1980 – Steven Gerrard is a former member of the England national football team and the Liverpool club.
– 1992 – Qamariddin Shaykhov – Uzbek journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of Qalampir.uz internet publication.