Who was born on May 8 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – the first day of the Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation dedicated to the memory of the victims of World War II.
🌏 International Thalassemia Day
🌎 World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day.
🌏 Coca-Cola birthday
🌎 World Donkey Day
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇰🇷 South Korea – Parents’ Day.
🇳🇴 Norway – Veterans Day.
🇵🇭 Philippines – Radio Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Student Nurses Day.
🇲🇽 Mexico – Hidalgo Day, the birthday of Mexico’s national hero, Miguel Hidalgo.
🇦🇲 Armenia – Erkrap Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Occupational Safety and Health Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Memorial Day and Victory Day over Nazism.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1541 – Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto discovered the Mississippi River.
– 1713 – Helsinki surrendered to the Russians in the Northern War.
– 1713 – The capital of Russia was moved from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
– 1794 – French scientist and father of modern chemistry, Antoine Lavoisier, was executed for corruption.
– 1842 – Versailles railway disaster (France), kills at least 55 people.
– 1846 – Battle of Palo Alto, first battle of the American-Mexican War.
– 1886 – Coca-Cola, invented by Dr. John Pemberton, was produced for the first time.
– 1895 – China ceded Taiwan to Japan.
– 1902 – More than 20,000 people died as a result of the eruption of the Mont Pele volcano.
– 1903 – The first real airship – “Lebody” made its first flight of 37 km.
– 1923 – Great Britain issued a series of ultimatum demands to Soviet Russia (“Curzon ultimatum”).
– 1942 – Battle of the Coral Sea.
– 1945 – Victory Day in Europe.
– 1945 – the act of unconditional surrender of Germany in World War II was signed in Karlshort near Berlin.
– 1949 – The “Basic Law” (Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany) was adopted by the Parliamentary Council in Bonn.
– 1953 – The World Red Cross Organization was founded.
– 1962 – Trolleybus service was stopped in the British capital.
– 1967 – “Tomb of the Unknown Soldier” memorial architectural ensemble was opened.
– 1990 – Estonia’s withdrawal from the USSR.
– 1996 – The International Symposium on ceramics was held in Tashkent on the theme “The Great Silk Road in the 20th century: a new philosophy”.
– 2004 – 18-year-old computer virus creator Sasser was arrested by German police.
– 2020 – Russian unmanned autonomous submarine “Vityaz-D” was lowered to the bottom of the Mariana Trench (10,028 m).
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1639 – Giovanni Battista Gaulli – Italian painter of the Baroque period.
– 1737 – Edward Gibson – English historian.
– 1753 – Miguel Hidalgo – Mexican priest, leader of the Mexican Revolution.
– 1876 – Nikolay Nilovich Burdenko (1946) – physician, one of the founders of neurosurgery in Russia.
– 1884 – Harry Truman – the 33rd president of the USA (1945-1953).
– 1899 – Friedrich Hayek (1992) – economist and philosopher, winner of the Nobel Prize (1974).
– 1902 – André Michel Lwoff (1994) – French microbiologist and biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1965).
– 1912 – Arif Alimov (2005) – Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the UzSSR (1953-1961).
– 1916 – Joao Avelange – Brazilian sports figure, 7th president of FIFA (1974-1998).
– 1926 – Sir David Frederick Attenborough – English speaker and natural historian, one of the 100 Great Britons in history.
– 1937 – Thomas Pynchon – American writer, founder of black humor.
– 1939 – Sidney Altman – American chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1989).
– 1960 – Mahmud Namozov – People’s Artist of Uzbekistan.
– 1970 – Luis Enrique – Spanish football player, Olympic champion (1992), coach.
– 1975 – Enrique Iglases is a famous Spanish singer.
– 1978 – Lucio (Lucimar Ferreira da Silva) – Brazilian football player, world champion (2002).
– 1981 – Andrea Barsalli – Italian football player, world champion