July 16 HOLIDAYS: EVENTS: BIRTHDAYS:

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Today is Sunday, July 16, 2023.

👉 HOLIDAYS:

🌏 World Snake Day.

 

🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:

🇨🇺 Cuba, 🇻🇪 Venezuela, 🇵🇦 Panama - Children's Day.
🇧🇴 Bolivia - La Paz Day.
🇺🇸 USA - National Personal Chef Day.
🇭🇳 Honduras - Engineers' Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine - Day of accountants and auditors.
🇧🇾 Belarus, 🇷🇺 Russia, 🇺🇦 Ukraine, 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan, 🇦🇲 Armenia - Metallurgists' Day.
🇫🇷 France - Holocaust Remembrance Day.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan - Grain holiday (wheat harvest holiday).

 

👉 EVENTS:

— 622 — the day the Islamic calendar began.
- 1054 - The Christian Church split into two.
— 1439 — Kissing was banned in England. The reason is cholera epidemic.
1548 - The Spanish founded the city of La Paz (La Paz means "peace" in Spanish).
- 1643 - The Dutch de Fries expedition discovered Sakhalin.
- 1661 - The first European banknotes were issued by the Bank of Stockholm.
- 1850 - Freedom of the press was restricted in France.
- 1867 - Joseph Monet, a former French gardener, received a patent for reinforced concrete, which became the main material for the construction of high-rise buildings.
— 1877 — the first tennis tournament final at Wimbledon. The winner was Spencer Gore.
— 1909 — Audi company was founded.
- 1920 - the blockade of Soviet Russia was lifted by the Entente.
- 1944 - a partisan parade was held in liberated Minsk.
- 1945 - the first test of an atomic bomb was successfully conducted in the US state of New Mexico.
- 1950 - Brazil lost in the Uruguay-Brazil football match.
— 1965 — a tunnel connecting France and Italy was opened under Mont Blanc (the highest peak of the Alps, 4807 m).
- 1969 - "Apollo-11" flew to the moon.
— 1977 — All Soviet specialists were expelled from Somalia.
- 1979 - Saddam Hussein became the president of Iraq.
- 1990 - Ukraine declared its sovereignty.
- 1990 - Saturn's moon Pan, known as Saturn XVIII, is discovered.
— 1994 — Comet Shoemakers-Levist collided with Jupiter.
— 2000 — a decision was made to increase the number of Internet domains.
- 2002 - a unique museum dedicated to the history of international espionage was opened in the center of Washington.

 

👉 BIRTHDAYS:

— 1486 — Andrea del Sarto (1530) — Italian painter, representative of the Florentine school.
— 1746 — Giuseppe Piazzi (1826) — Italian priest and astronomer who discovered the first minor planet — Ceres.
- 1841 - Vladimir Krylov (1906) - Russian pathologist, founder of anthropometry, professor of Kharkiv University.
- 1860 - Otto Jespersen (1943) - Danish linguist, founder of grammatical philosophy.
- 1872 - Roald Amundsen (1928) - Norwegian polar explorer and explorer.
- 1888 - Fritz Sernike (1966) - Dutch physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1953).
- 1896 - Trygve Lee (1968) - Norwegian politician, the first Secretary General of the UN (1946-1952).
— 1902 — Alexander Luria (1977) — Soviet psychologist, founder of neuropsychology.
— 1939 — Konstantin Kobets (2012) — General, Chief of Defense of the White House in August 1991, Minister of Defense of the RSFSR (1991).
— 1941 — Amon Mukhtar (2013) — Uzbek writer, poet, dramatist.
- 1944 - Ghairat Rakhmatgoriyev - doctor of chemical sciences, chemical scientist, professor.
- 1945 - Cetin Tekindor - Turkish actor.
— 1962 — Grigory Leps — singer, musician, honored artist of Russia.
— 1968 — Leonid Agutin — pop singer, composer, honored artist of Russia.
- 1968 - Larry Sanger - American doctor of philosophy, one of the founders of Wikipedia.
- 1982 - Carli Lloyd is a former American professional soccer player.
— 1986 — Shahboz Erkinov — football player from Uzbekistan.
- 1988 - Sergio Busquets - Spanish football player, world (2010) and European champion (2012).