Who was born on January 30 and what day is it?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 Day of non-violence and peace in schools.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇸 USA – Day to plan for the weekend.
🇺🇸 USA – Fred Korematsu Day.
🇮🇳 India – Independence Day.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan – Sade Festival.
🇧🇷 Brazil – Saudade Day.
🇮🇩 Indonesia – Indonesian Primates Day.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan – Day of Customs Officers.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1703 – According to legend, forty-seven samurai – former vassals of the Ako family – avenged their master in Edo.
– 1790 – The first dedicated lifeboat was tested on the River Tyne in Northern England.
– 1801 – Pavel I issued a manifesto on the annexation of Georgia (Kartli-Kakheti) to Russia.
– 1826 – The Menai Bridge was built in England.
– 1894 – Charles King patented the hammer he invented.
– 1915 – Germany used submarines for the first time in an attack on the French port of Le Havre.
– 1924 – Mosfilm was founded.
– 1930 – Pavel Molchanov launched a radiosonde in Pavlovsk.
– 1933 – Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany.
– 1934 – Osoaviakhim-1 stratospheric balloon rose to a height of 22 km for the first time in the world. It crashed on landing, killing all three crew members.
– 1935 – Charles Reichter invented a special scale for measuring earthquake magnitude.
– 1943 – The German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad, a turning point in the Great Patriotic War.
-1945 – USSR submarine C-13 sank the German ship “Wilhelm Gustloff”.
– 1969 – The Beatles gave their last concert in London.
– 1972 – “Bloody Sunday” in Derry.
– 1992 – The Republic of Uzbekistan was admitted to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
– 1996 – Comet C/1996 B2 discovered.
– 2007 – Windows Vista operating system was released.
– 2009 – Russian spaceship “Koronas-Foton” was launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome using the “Syklon-3” launch vehicle.
– 2020 – The World Health Organization declared the epidemic of COVID-19 (nCoV) a public health emergency of international concern.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1736 – James Watt (1891) – a Scottish mechanical engineer who invented the steam engine.
– 1841 – Felix Faure (1899) – French politician, President of France (1895-1899).
– 1882 – Franklin Roosevelt (1945) – 32nd president of the USA.
– 1899 – Max Taylor (1972) – South African physician and microbiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1951).
– 1900 – Isaac Dunayevsky (1955) – Soviet composer.
– 1923 – Leonid Gayday – Soviet and Russian actor, film director.
– 1924 – Hanifa Mavlonova (2010) – singer (lyrical-dramatic soprano), People’s Artist (1968).
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– 1925 – Douglas Carl Engelbart (2013) – American computer technology specialist, creator of the computer mouse.
– 1928 – Ruth Brown (2006) – singer and actress, “mother-queen” of American blues.
– 1937 – Boris Spassky – Soviet and French chess player, 10th world champion.
– 1938 – Islam Karimov (2016) – the first president of Uzbekistan.
– 1947 – Otajhonov Artik (2019) – singer, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1991), Turkmenistan and Karakalpakstan (1993).
– 1962 – Abdullah bin Hussein – King of Jordan (since 1999).
– 1968 – Philip VI – King of Spain (since 2014).
– 1974 – Christian Bale – English actor.
– 1975 – Arda Turan – Turkish national football team player.
– 1986 – Nigina Amonkulova – Tajik singer.
– 1997 – Sim Sok Hee is a South Korean short-track runner, two-time Olympic champion, multiple world champion.
– 2001 – Roksana Khudoyarova – an athlete of Uzbekistan, specializing mainly in long jump, a member of the national team of Uzbekistan.