August 10 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS: EVENTS: BIRTHDAYS:

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Today is Thursday, August 10, 2023.

 

👉 HOLIDAYS:

🌏 International Biodiesel Day.
🌏 World Lion Day.

 

👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:

🇹🇯 Tajikistan - Day of Athletics.
🇲🇨 Indonesia - National Veterans Day.
🇲🇨 Indonesia - Technology Development Day.
🇦🇷 Argentina - Air Force Day.
🇪🇨 Ecuador - National Day.

 

👉 EVENTS:

- Mil. avv. 586 - Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed Jerusalem.
— 843 — Charlemagne's empire was divided among his three grandsons by the Treaty of Verdun.
— 955 — King Otto I of Germany defeats the Hungarians at the Battle of the Lech River.
- 1230 - Kunia sultan, Khims, Halab, Mayafirikin and Baynas governors united alliance defeated Jalaluddin Manguberdi.
- 1500 - Diogo Dias discovered the island of Madagascar.
- 1519 - Fernand Magellan went on a journey.
- 1628 - "Vaza" ship sank.
- 1675 - King Charles II of England laid the foundation stone of the Greenwich Observatory.
- 1792 - Great French Revolution: Revolution of August 10 takes place, Louis XVI is arrested.
- 1793 - The Louvre Museum was opened in Paris.
- 1809 - Ecuador declared independence from Spain. In fact, independence was achieved only in 1822.
— 1911 — Great Britain's Parliament Act deprived the House of Lords of its absolute veto.
- 1913 - The Second Balkan War ended with the signing of the Bucharest Peace Treaty.
- 1937 - mass repression in Central Asia escalated.
— 1962 — Vilnius Planetarium opened its doors.
— 1985 — Radiation accident in Chajma Bay.
— 2004 — The Hubble Space Telescope discovers the Milky Way-like galaxy NGC3949 and loses one of its image sensors.
— 2014 — the beginning of the battle for Ilovaysk during the war in Donbass.

 

👉 BIRTHDAYS:

- 787 - Albumasar (886) - Persian mathematician, astronomer and astrologer.
— 1737 — Anton Losenko (1773) — Painter, founder of the genre of Russian historical painting.
— 1839 — Alexander Stoletov (1896) — Russian physicist.
— 1845 — Abay Kunanboyev (1904) is a Kazakh enlightener poet, the founder of Kazakh classical literature.
- 1874 - Herbert Hoover (1964) - the 31st president of the USA (1929-1933).
- 1877 - Frank James Marshall (1944) - American chess player, chess theorist.
- 1878 - Alfred Döblin (1957) - German writer.
— 1902 — Arne Tiselius (1971) — Swedish biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1948).
— 1902 — Norma Shearer (1983) is an Academy Award-winning Canadian and American actress.
— 1910 — Amin Turdiyev (1978) — actor and director, People's Artist of Uzbekistan
- 1912 - Jorge Amadou (2001) - Brazilian writer, journalist, politician, public figure.
— 1913 — Wolfgang Paul (1993) — German physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1989).
- 1941 - Erkin Malik - writer.
- 1950 - Erkin Azam - writer
- 1960 - Antonio Banderas - Spanish and American actor, director, producer and singer.
— 1960 — Tashpolat Matkarimov — singer, "Honored Artist of Uzbekistan."
— 1963 — Firdavs Abdukholikov — Director General of the Cinematography Agency of Uzbekistan (since 2019).
— 1974 — Yulia Kurochkina — winner of the "Miss World" competition (1992).
- 1994 - Gulnoza Matniyazova - Uzbek judoka, 70 kg weight category.
— 1995 — Nigina Sharipova — Uzbek athlete, specialized in sprinting,
— 1997 — Kylie Jenner is an American model, businesswoman.
- 2001 - Regina Parpiyeva - Russian TV journalist and athlete.