Who was born on May 31 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 INTERNATIONAL:
🇺🇳 UN (BST) – World No Tobacco Day.
🌏 World Blonde Girl Day.
🌏 Brothers and Sisters Day in Europe.
🌏 World Parrot Day.
🌍 International Flight Attendant Day.
🔷 NATIONAL:
🇺🇸 USA – National Seniors Health and Fitness Day.
🇻🇳 Vietnam – Scout Day.
🇪🇸 Spain – Castile – La Mancha Day.
🇧🇳 Brunei – Royal Armed Forces Day.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan – Day of remembrance of victims of political repression and hunger.
🇿🇦 JAR – Republic Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Advocacy Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1223 – Battle of Kalka.
– 1578 – Italian archaeologist Antonio Bosio discovered ancient Christian catacombs in Rome.
– 1787 – The world’s first cricket club was founded in England.
– 1815 – The Kingdom of the Netherlands was established.
– 1850 – Abolition of universal suffrage in France.
– 1858 – the city of Khabarovsk was founded.
– 1859 – Big Ben clock is launched in London.
– 1868 – The world’s first bicycle race was held in the Saint-Claude park near Paris.
– 1879 – The world’s first electric railway opens in Berlin and the first electric train designed by Werner von Siemens is shown.
– 1891 – a highway was opened in Vladivostok.
– 1902 – The Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) ended.
– 1941 – In Germany, the Gothic alphabet was changed to the Latin script.
– 1961 – South Africa became independent from Great Britain.
– 1970 – an earthquake in Peru killed more than 60 thousand people; 600,000 Peruvians lost their homes.
– 1994 – Boris Berezovsky was elected chairman of the board of directors of VAZ.
– 1995 – Tashkent Aviation Institute was established.
– 1997 – The Confederation Bridge was opened in Canada.
– 2002 – the day when diplomatic relations were established between the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Republic of Angola.
– 2002 – The World Football Championship was started in Japan and South Korea.
– 2003 – The Amber Room reopened in St. Petersburg.
– 2009 – the beginning of a series of civil protests in Russia to protect the freedom of assembly (Article 31 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation).
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1469 – Manuel I (1521) – the fifth king of Portugal belonging to the Aviss dynasty.
– 1847 – William James Pirrie (1924) – Irish shipbuilder, engineer of the gigantic ship “Titanic”.
– 1887 – Saint-John Perce (1957) – French poet, winner of the Nobel Prize (1960).
– 1892 – Konstantin Paustovsky (1968) – Russian Soviet writer.
– 1911 – Maurice Alle (2010) – French economist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1988).
– 1913 – Mukarram Turgunboyeva (1978) – dancer, ballet master, founder of Uzbek public stage dance, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1937).
– 1916 – Bernard Lewis (2018) – British-American orientalist and political commentator.
– 1929 – Menachem Golan is a famous American film director.
– 1931 – John Schrieffer (2014) – American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1972).
– 1948 – Svetlana Alekseyevich – Soviet and Belarusian writer, journalist, winner of the Nobel Prize (2015).
– 1962 – Victoria Ruffo – Mexican actress, prima donna of Mexican TV series.
– 1965 – Brooke Shields – American film actress and model.
– 1967 – Sandrine Bonner – French actress.
– 1973 – Natalya Korolyova – singer.
– 1976 – Colin Farrell – Irish film actor.