July 15 HOLIDAYS: EVENTS: BIRTHDAYS:

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Today is Saturday, July 15, 2023.

👉 HOLIDAYS:

🇺🇳 World Youth Skills Day.
🌐 Charity day on social networks.

 

🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:

🇨🇴 Lithuania, 🇵🇱 Poland - Day of the Battle of Grunwald.
🇺🇦 Ukraine - Day of Peacekeepers.
🇹🇷 Turkey - Day of Democracy and National Unity.
🇧🇳 Brunei - Sultan's Day.

 

👉 EVENTS:

— 70 — Titus and his army breached the walls of Jerusalem.
— 1099 — Conquest of Jerusalem by the Crusaders.
— 1205 — Pope Innocent III declares that the Jews are condemned to eternal slavery and subjection because of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
— 1240 — Battle of the Neva.
— 1410 — Battle of Grunwald.
— 1783 — Engineer Claude de Geoffroy d'Abban was the first to test a steam engine in France, on the Sone River near Lyon.
- 1795 - "Marseille" officially became the national anthem of France.
- 1799 - During Napoleon's campaign in Egypt, French captain Pierre-Francois Bouchard discovered Rosette.
- 1815 - Napoleon I surrendered to the captain of the ship "Bellerophon".
— 1841 — a convention was signed in London prohibiting the passage of ships of European countries through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles without the consent of Turkey.
- 1865 - Amir Muzaffar marched to Kokhan
— 1870 Georgia returned to the United States.
- 1916 - Boeing company was founded.
- 1923 - State airline "Aeroflot" was established in the USSR.
- 1923 - the Italian parliament adopted a new constitution.
- 1925 - A women's educational institution was opened in the city of Khiva.
- 1926 - "Spartak Stadium" was opened in the old part of Tashkent.
- 1933 - Italy, Germany, England and France signed the Quadruple Pact on common international issues.
- 1991 - Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies was established.
— 1996 — the day of establishment of the International Foundation for Science and Culture in Uzbekistan.
— 2006 — Twitter microblogging service was created.
— 2016 — A group of soldiers and officers of the Turkish Air Force attempted a coup d'état.

 

👉 BIRTHDAYS:

— 1606 — Rembrandt Harmens Van Rijn (1669) is a famous Dutch painter.
- 1638 - Giovanni Viviani (1692) - Italian composer.
- 1817 - John Fowler (1898) - English railway engineer, author of several bridges and locomotives.
- 1848 - Vilfredo Pareto (1923) - Italian economist, sociologist, founder of the mathematical school of political economy.
- 1853 - Maria Yermolova (1928) - Russian actress, People's Artist of Russia (1920), Hero of Labor (1924).
- 1901 - Nicola Abbagnano (1990) - Italian idealist philosopher, representative of existentialism.
— 1903 — Lutfulla Nazrullayev (1962) — theater actor, People's Artist of Uzbekistan (1945).
— 1912 — Maguba Sirtlanova (1971) — Guards senior lieutenant, deputy squadron commander of the 46th Taman Guards Women's Aviation Regiment, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- 1918 - Bertram Brockhaus (2003) - Canadian physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1994).
— 1919 — Iris Murdoch (1999) is an English writer, multiple winner of the Booker Prize.
— 1921 — Mahmud Mirzayev (2000) — scientist in the field of horticulture and viticulture, organizer of agricultural production.
— 1921 — Robert Bruce Merrifield (2006) is an American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1984).
— 1922 — Leon Max Ledermann (2018) — American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1988).
- 1939 - Ayatollah Ali Khomeini - Iranian politician and religious leader, President of Iran (1981-1989), head of state.
— 1944 — Radjab Adashev — Uzbek theater and film actor, People's Artist of Uzbekistan (2010).
- 1946 - Bolkiah Muizzaddin Waddaulah Muda Hassanal - Sultan of Brunei (since 1967).
— 1949 — Rustam Hamidov — director, People's Artist of Uzbekistan (1992).
— 1959 — Zulfia Mominova — poetess.
- 1961 - Ravshan Haydarov - football coach from Uzbekistan.
- 1961 - Forest Whitaker - American actor, director, producer, winner of "Oscar", "Golden Globe".
- 1962 - Bahriyev Karim - journalist, writer, translator.
- 1976 - Diane Kruger - German actress and photo model.
- 2004 - Asrorbek Kenjayev - Uzbek football player, goalkeeper of "Neftchi" club and Uzbekistan U20 national football team.