July 20 HOLIDAYS: EVENTS: BIRTHDAYS:

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Today is Thursday, July 20, 2023

 

👉 HOLIDAYS:

🇺🇳 World Chess Day.
🌎 International Moon Day.
🌏 World Jumping Day.

 

🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:

🇺🇿 Uzbekistan - July 20-21 - "Day of Imam al-Bukhari".
🇨🇫 Central African Republic - Tree Planting Day.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan - National Guard Day.
🇷🇴 Romania - Romanian Air Force Day.
🇨🇷 Costa Rica - Day of Engineers.
🇱🇦 Laos - Lao Women's Union Day.
🇨🇴 Colombia - Independence Day.
🇳🇴 Norway - Crown Prince Haakon's birthday.
🇦🇷 Argentina, 🇧🇷 Brazil, 🇺🇾 Uruguay - Friends Day.

 

👉 EVENTS:

— 1217 — 6 Ryazan princes were killed at the congress of princes in Isadakh.
- 1402 - Amir Temur defeated Turkish sultan Bayazid I Yildirim.
- 1810 - the establishment of the independent state of Colombia in Latin America was announced.
- 1840 - The National Chartist Union was formed in England, a model for future political parties of workers.
- 1871 - British Columbia was given to Canada.
— 1877 — the beginning of the history of animation.
— 1882 — AF Mozhaisky's airplanes were tested.
- 1917 - The Declaration of Corfu was signed.
— 1917 — the day the BMW trademark was registered.
- 1924 - The International Chess Federation was opened in Paris.
- 1936 - The Montreux Convention transferred the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus Straits to Turkish jurisdiction.
- 1940 - Billboard magazine released a ranking of the 100 greatest songs.
- 1941 - bombing of Moscow by the German Air Force.
- 1944 - assassination of Adolf Hitler.
- 1955 - The Kremlin was opened for tourists.
- 1969 - the US Apollo 11 spacecraft landed on the Moon.
- 1976 - the first researches were conducted on the surface of Mars.
- 1993 - Lithuania introduced its own currency - lit.
— 2015 — Cuba and the United States fully restore diplomatic relations after 50 years.

 

👉 BIRTHDAYS:

— 810 — Imam al-Bukhari (870) is a great scholar, the author of a collection of hadiths known as "Sahih Bukhari".
— 1304 — Francesco Petrarch (1374) — Italian poet, leader of the older generation of humanists, one of the greatest representatives of the Italian Renaissance.
- 1656 - Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1723) - Austrian architect, the founder of the Empire style.
- 1726 - Joachim Ibarra (1785) - Spanish book printer.
— 1804 — Sir Richard Owen (1892) — English zoologist, anatomist and paleontologist, author of the word dinosaur.
- 1822 - Gregor Johann Mendel (1884) - Austrian biologist and botanist, created the foundations of genetics.
— 1864 — Eric Karlfeldt (1931) — Swedish poet, member of the Swedish Academy, winner of the Nobel Prize (1931).
— 1897 — Tadeusz Reichstein (1996) — Swiss organic chemist of Polish origin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine (1950).
- 1917 - Komiljon Otaniyozov (1975) - singer, musician (string), actor and composer, People's Artist of Uzbekistan SSR (1949), Turkmenistan (1964), Karakalpakstan (1968).
— 1919 — Sir Edmund Hillary (2008) — New Zealand explorer and mountaineer, the first person to conquer Everest.
— 1929 — Qaziboyiv Nemat (2004) — master of color painting, Academician of Uzbekistan (1997), People's Artist of Uzbekistan (1970).
— 1933 — Malik Murodov — folklorist scientist, scientist of the Republic of Uzbekistan (1997).
- 1945 - Alexander Mirzayan - Russian poet, composer, bard, theoretician of author's songs.
— 1946 — Erkin Komilov — actor, People's Artist of Uzbekistan (1998).
- 1947 - Gerd Carl Binnig - German physicist, inventor, winner of the Nobel Prize (1986).
- 1977 - Dilshod Oripov - international master of sports in Greco-Roman wrestling (1997), "Pride of Uzbekistan" (2001).
- 1978 - Pavel Datsyuk - Russian ice hockey player, Olympic champion (2018), world champion (2012).
- 1979 - Artur Taymazov is an Uzbek freestyle wrestler of Ossetian origin.
- 1988 - Julianne Hough is an American dancer, actress and singer.
- 1994 - Maya Shibutani - American figure skater, champion of four continents.