Who was born on May 7 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 World Asthma Day.
👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇦🇲 Armenia, 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan, 🇧🇾 Belarus, 🇧🇬 Bulgaria, 🇷🇺 Russia – Radio Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Teacher’s Day.
🇨🇦 Canada – National Child and Youth Mental Health Day.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan – Defender of the Fatherland Day.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh – Engineers’ Day.
🇱🇹 Lithuania – Day of restoration of Lithuanian press, language and books.
🇸🇻 Salvador – Soldiers’ Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1104 – The Crusaders are defeated at the Battle of Harran.
-1663 – Drury Lane Theater opened in London.
– 1744 – Elizaveta Petrovna signed the decree to abolish the death penalty in Russia.
– 1755 – Moscow University was opened.
– 1785 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries flew across the English Channel together in a balloon.
– 1887 – American Thomas Stevens traveled 13,500 miles around the world by bicycle.
– 1895 – Russian physicist and electrical engineer Alexander Popov demonstrated the first version of the radio to the public in St. Petersburg.
– 1907 – “Fenerbahçe” football club of Turkey was founded.
– 1915 – German submarine U-20 attacks British passenger liner Lusitania; 1198 passengers died.
– 1940 – Moscow State University was named after Lomonosov.
– 1945 – At 2:41 a.m., Germany’s unconditional surrender was signed in Reims.
– 1946 – Sony company was founded in Tokyo.
– 1954 – The USA, France and England rejected the Soviet Union’s offer to join NATO.
– 1960 – Mikhail Tal became the 8th world chess champion.
– 1992 – of independent Uzbekistan at the House of Cinematographers in Tashkent
the first postage stamp was presented.
– 1993 – Order “For a healthy generation” was established.
– 1994 – the first Republican Olympics of sports national and folk games began in Forish.
– 1997 – Intel officially introduced the Pentium II microprocessor.
– 1997 – Luc Besson’s film The Fifth Element premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
– 2000 – Vladimir Putin became the President of Russia.
– 2008 – Dmitry Medvedev, the third president of the Russian Federation, took office.
– 2013 – The inhabitants of the Earth observed a rare astronomical phenomenon that happens only a few times a century. Mercury moved between the Earth and the Sun.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1713 – Alexey Claude Clairo (1713) – French mathematician, became a member of the French FA at the age of 18.
– 1840 – P. I. Tchaikovsky (1893) – Russian composer.
– 1861 – Rabindranand Thokur (1941) – a famous Indian writer, winner of the Nobel Prize (1913).
– 1867 – Władysław Reymont (1925) – Polish writer, winner of the Nobel Prize (1924).
– 1896 – Pavel Alexandrov (1982) – mathematician, academician, founder of the Soviet topological school.
– 1908 – Max Grundig (1989) – German businessman, founder of the Grundig radio electronic concern.
– 1909 – Edwin Land (1991) – inventor of the Polaroid camera, founder of the Polaroid company.
– 1923 – Anne Baxter (1985) – American film actress.
– 1929 – Tolepbergen Kayipbergenov 2010) – People’s writer of Uzbekistan and Karakalpakstan, Hero of Uzbekistan (2003).
– 1929 – Abdulkhay Valiyev – Honored scientist, philosopher-scientist, professor.
– 1939 – Sayed Ali Hosseini Khamenei – Iranian political and religious figure, Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah. 3rd President of Iran (1981-1989).
– 1939 – Sidney Altman – Canadian and American molecular biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1989).
– 1961 – George Clooney – American film actor.
– 1974 – Nazarbekov Ozodbek – a famous Uzbek singer, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (2010) and People’s Artist of Karakalpakstan.
– 1980 – Kim Nam Sun – South Korean athlete, Olympic archery champion (2000)
– 1983 – Marco Gallazzo – Italian archer, two-time Olympic champion.
– 1983 – Josip Glasnović – Croatian shooter, Olympic champion (2016).
– 1983 – Alexander Legkov – Russian skier, Olympic champion (2014).