Who was born on June 7 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN — International Food Safety Day.
🌏 World Caring Day.
🌎 International Tourette Awareness Day.
👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇵🇪 Peru – Flag Day.
🇨🇱 Chile – Arica Battle Day.
🇸🇰 Slovakia – Anniversary of the Slovak People’s Memorandum.
🇩🇰 Denmark – Prince Joachim’s birthday.
🇳🇴 Norway – Independence day.
🇭🇷 Croatia – Croatian Diplomacy Day.
🇦🇷 Argentina – Day of Journalists.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan – Day of Finance and Economic Employees.
🇲🇹 Malta – Sette Giugno.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1099 – Crusades: Siege of Jerusalem.
– 1340 – The city of Rotterdam was founded in the Netherlands.
– 1494 – Spain and Portugal divide the world again.
– 1498 – Christopher Columbus set off on his third voyage.
– 1628 – King Charles II of England approves the Petition of Rights.
– 1654 – Louis XIV ascended the throne of France.
– 1692 – A 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck Port Royal, leveling the city within three minutes.
– 1776 – All English colonies in America except New York vote for independence.
– 1863 – British, French and Spanish troops invaded Mexico.
– 1903 – Pierre Curie discovered a new chemical element – polonium.
– 1905 – The Swedish-Norwegian union was abolished.
– 1929 – The Vatican State was established in accordance with the Lateran Treaty.
– 1960 – Women were allowed to study in Saudi Arabia.
– 1965 – Sony Corporation introduced the CV-2000, the first VCR, priced at $995.
– 1967 – Six-Day War: Israeli army captures the Holy Wall.
– 1981 – The Israeli Air Force bombed the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak and completely destroyed it.
– 1991 – The Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR made a decision to resubordinate allied enterprises on its territory to the republic.
– 2001 – Parliamentary elections in Great Britain, Labor won for the second time in a row.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1548 – Giordano Bruno – Italian thinker, philosopher, astronomer and poet.
– 1794 – Pyotr Chaadaev – Russian philosopher, writer, public figure.
– 1829 – Nikolai Fyodorov – thinker, creator of utopian system, founder of Russian cosmosism.
– 1848 – Paul Gauguin – French painter, graphic artist, sculptor, representative of post-impressionism.
– 1862 – Philip Lenard (1947) – German physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1905).
– 1868 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh – English architect, designer and illustrator.
– 1877 – Charles Barkla (1944) – English physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1917).
– 1896 – Robert Mulliken (1986) – American chemist, professor, winner of the Nobel Prize (1966).
– 1911 – Melvin Calvin (1997) – American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1961).
– 1924 – Khurshida Yanboyeva – honored scientist of Uzbekistan, doctor of medical sciences, therapist-cardiologist, professor.
– 1928 – Rasulqori Hafiz Mamadaliyev (1976) – singer, musician (tanbur, dutor, violin) and skier.
– 1942 – Muammar Gaddafi (2011) – Libyan military and statesman.
– 1952 – Orhan Pamuk – Turkish writer, winner of the Nobel Prize (2006).
– 1970 – Cafu – Brazilian football player, two-time world champion (1994, 2002).
– 1981 – Anna Kournikova – Russian tennis player, photo model.
– 1986 – Gyluk’oza (Natalya Ionova) – Russian pop singer, actress.
– 1989 – Khushnud Khudoyberdiyev – deputy general director of the National Information Agency of Uzbekistan, lawyer, blogger, one of the intellectuals of the Zakovat intellectual club.
– 1997 – Davlat Bobonov – Uzbek judoka, 90 kg weight category, bronze medalist at the 2020 Summer Olympics, honored athlete of the Republic of Uzbekistan.