World Allergy Day.

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Today is Saturday, July 8, 2023.

 

👉 HOLIDAYS:

🌏 World Allergy Day.

 

🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:

🇹🇯 Tajikistan - Day of Disabled and Elderly.
🇲🇾 Malaysia - Penang State Governor's birthday.
🇺🇦 Ukraine - Family Day.
🇷🇺 Russia - Day of Family, Love and Loyalty.
🇱🇻 Latvia - Holiday of sea and fishermen.

 

👉 EVENTS:

- Mil. av. 52 — Paris (Luthesia) was founded.
— 1497 — the first sea expedition from Europe to India, led by Vasco da Gama, left Lisbon.
- 1618 - Maria de' Medici's servant was executed for "bewitching" the French princess.
- 1659 - Battle of Konotop.
- 1686 - Siege of Buda.
— 1709 — Northern War: Battle of Poltava.
- 1777 - Vermont became the first state to abolish slavery.
— 1796 — The US State Department issued the first US citizen passport.
— 1916 — the decision to involve 400 inhabitants of Turkestan and steppe regions in forced labor. The mass uprising of the Kazakh tribes was brutally suppressed.
- 1920 - The English colony of East Africa was named Kenya.
- 1969 - Vietnam War: The withdrawal of American troops from South Vietnam begins, which is completed in three and a half years.
— 1974 — The Central Committee of the CPSU approved the construction project of the Baikal-Amur Railway (BAM).
— 1994 — the day diplomatic relations were established with the Republic of Uzbekistan and Kuwait.
- 1998 - Larry Page, the founder of Google, added the verb "To google" (Uzbek: гуглаш) to the list of words.
— 2008 — the Czech Republic became the 18th member of the European Space Agency.
— 2022 — Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is assassinated during an election campaign in Japan.

 

👉 BIRTHDAYS:

- 1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi (1653) - Italian painter.
- 1621 - Jean de Lafontaine (1695) - French poet and fantasy writer.
— 1836 — Joseph Shomilen (1914) is a British politician and statesman, the father of Austin Chamberlain and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Neville Chamberlain.
— 1839 — John Rockefeller (1937) — American industrialist, founder of the Standard Oil oil company.
- 1842 - Nikolai Benardos (1905) - Russian engineer, inventor of all types of electric arc welding.
1851 - Arthur John Evans (1941) is an English historian and archaeologist who discovered the Minoan civilization.
— 1894 — Peter Kapitsa (1984) — Soviet physicist, engineer, academician, winner of the Nobel Prize (1978).
— 1895 — Igor Tamm (1971) — Soviet theoretical physicist, professor, academician, Nobel laureate in physics (1958).
- 1904 - Henri Cartan (2008) - French mathematician.
— 1912 — Maksuda Hojinova (1981) — scientist in the field of mechanics.
— 1917 — Mikhail Devyatayev (2002) — Soviet fighter pilot who escaped from a German concentration camp in a stolen plane, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- 1950 - Konstantin Raikin - theater and film actor, artistic director of Satyrikon Theater, People's Artist of Russia.
- 1952 - Karen Shakhnazarov - Russian director, screenwriter, producer, public figure, People's Artist of Russia.
— 1972 — Gulnara Karimova — the eldest daughter of Islam Karimov, the first president of Uzbekistan, Ambassador of Uzbekistan to Spain (2010-2012).
- 1981 - Anastasia Myskina - Russian tennis player.
- 1994 - Bahadir Jalolov - heavyweight professional boxer, champion of the Olympic Games (2020), two-time world champion (2019, 2023), master of sports of the international category of the Republic of Uzbekistan.