August 5 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS: EVENTS: BIRTHDAYS:

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Today is Saturday, August 5, 2023.

 

👉 HOLIDAYS:

🌏 International Traffic Light Day.
🌏 Horizon Observation Day.
🌏 International Blues Music Day.

 

🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:

🇺🇸 USA - Day of bloggers.
🇧🇾 Belarus - Day of Financial Investigation Officers.
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso - Independence Day.
🇮🇷 Iran - Islamic Human Rights Day.
🇨🇴 Colombia - Bogota Festival Day.
🇱🇻 Latvia - Railwaymen's Day.
🇭🇷 Croatia - Day of Victory and Thanksgiving to the Motherland.

 

👉 EVENTS:

- 1583 - Gilbert Humphrey founded the first English colony in North America.
-1772 - Rech Pospalita was divided between Russia, Prussia and Austria for the first time.
- 1775 - Ayala crossed the Golden Gate Strait and landed on Angel Island.
- 1789 - Serfdom was abolished in France.
- 1861 - Corporal punishment was abolished in the US army.
- 1864 - Giovanni Donati first observed the spectrum of a comet.
- 1884 - on this day, the construction of the "Statue of Liberty" began in New York City.
-1884 - Britain agreed that Madagascar is a French property.
- 1891 - "American Express" checks entered circulation.
- 1914 - The world's first electric traffic light was installed in Cleveland (USA).
-1924 - Polygamy was abolished in Turkey.
- 1940 - Latvia was accepted into the USSR.
— 1953 — the first RDS-6s hydrogen bomb was detonated at the Semipalatinsk test site.
- 1963 - representatives of the USSR, USA and Great Britain signed an agreement banning nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere, space and underwater in Moscow.
- 1964 - Vietnam War: US aircraft bombed North Vietnam for the first time.
- 1967 - Pink Floyd's first album was released.
— 1994 — The decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On the establishment of the State Museum of the History of Uzbekistan" was adopted.
— 2010 — As a result of an accident at the San Jose mine in Chile, 33 miners remained underground for 1 month.
— 2016 — The XXXI Summer Olympic Games began in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

 

👉 BIRTHDAYS:

- 1763 - Yakov Kulnev (1812) - Russian commander, hussar, major general, hero of the Patriotic War of 1812.
- 1802 - Nyel Henrik Abel (1829) - Norwegian mathematician, creator of the theory of elliptic functions.
- 1844 - Ilya Repin (1930) - Russian painter.
- 1850 - Guy de Maupassant (1893) - French writer.
- 1905 - Vasily Leontyev (1999) - American scientist and economist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1973).
— 1921 — Zhora Abdurasulov (1990) — radiologist, Honored Scientist of Uzbekistan (1964).
— 1930 — Neil Armstrong (2012) is an American astronaut, the first man to walk on the moon.
— 1941 — O'tkir Hashimov (2013) — People's Writer of Uzbekistan.
— 1943 — Abdulla Sher (Sherov Abdulla) — poet and translator.
- 1962 - Vadim Abramov - Soviet and Armenian football player, coach.
— 1974 — Valery Kechinov — former international professional football player from Uzbekistan and Russia.
— 1988 — Federica Pellegrini, Italian swimmer, Olympic champion (2008), multiple world and European champion.
- 1996 - Azize Erdogan - attacking midfielder of Turkish women's football.
— 1997 — Olivia Holt is an American actress and singer.