Jubilees in Latvia
In 1985, Kaspars Bērziņš – basketball player.
In 1963, Aleksandrs Radzevičs – actor.
In 1962, Māris Bružiks – track and field athlete, two-time European indoor triple jump champion.
In 1948, Anna Žīgure – member of the board of the Jūrmala Defense Society, writer and translator.
In 1945, Marina Kostenecka – writer, publicist.
In 1910, Auseklis Bauškėnieks – painter (died in 2007).
In 1877, Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš – writer, painter, book illustrator and one of the first Latvian art theorists and critics (died in 1962).
Jubilees in the world
In 1988, Aleksandra Burka – English singer.
In 1987, Blake Lively – American actress.
Cult actress Blake Lively
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In 1981, Rachel Bilson – American actress.
In 1976, Alexander Skarsgård – Swedish actor, “Golden Globe” and “Emmy” winner.
In 1973, Fatih Akin – German-Turkish film director.
In 1972, Joe Wright – English film director.
In 1970, Claudia Schiffer – German supermodel and actress.
Supermodel Claudia Schiffer on the red carpet and in everyday life
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In 1968, Stuart Murdoch – Scottish musician (“Belle & Sebastian”).
In 1964, Blair Underwood – American actor and director, “Emmy” and “Grammy” award winner,
In 1962, Vivien Campbell – Irish guitarist (“Def Leppard”, “Whitesnake”, “Dio”).
In 1961, Billy Ray Sayers – American musician and actor.
In 1958, Tim Burton – American director, producer and screenwriter, winner of the “Emmy” award.
Tim Burton Exhibition
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In 1954, Elvis Costello – English musician.
In 1952, Jed Downs – English keyboard instrumentalist (“Buggles”, “Yes”, “Asia”).
In 1951, Rob Halford – English singer (“Judas Priest”).
In 1949, Gene Simmons – American bassist and singer (“Kiss”).
In 1938, Frederick Forsyth – English writer.
In 1930, Sean Connery – Scottish actor, Oscar winner (died in 2020).
Sean Connery as James Bond
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In 1930 Georgis Danelia – Georgian film director, screenwriter and actor (died in 2019).
In 1925, Steps Butauts – Lithuanian basketball player and coach (as a player he became the European champion three times and won a silver medal at the Olympic Games, as a coach he led the USSR women’s national team to the world championship title twice, died in 2001).
In 1918, Leonard Bernstein – American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer and pianist (died in 1990).
In 1916, Frederick Chapman Robbins – American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 2003).
In 1912, Eric Honecker – the leader of East Germany (died in 1994).
In 1900, Hans Adolf Krebs – German physicist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1981).
In 1882, Sean O’Kelly – President of Ireland (died in 1966).
In 1850, Charles Richet – French scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1935).
In 1841, Emil Kosher – Swiss medical scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1917).
In 1845, Ludwig II – King of Bavaria (died in 1886).
In 1786, Ludwig I – King of Bavaria (died in 1868).
In 1767, Antoine Louis Leon de Richebourg de Saint-Giste – French revolutionary and writer (died in 1794).
In 1744, Johann Gottfried Herder – German poet, critic, theologian and philosopher, one of the founders of romanticism (died in 1803).
In 1530, Ivan IV – Tsar of Russia (died in 1584).
In 1414, Sixtus IV – Pope of Rome (died in 1484).
Events in Latvia
In 2004, weightlifter Viktors Ščerbatihs won the second silver medal for Latvia at the Athens Olympic Games, taking second place in the weight category over 105 kilograms. The first silver medal was won by gymnast Yevgenii Sapronenko.
Viktor Shcherbatykh in everyday life and in sports
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In 2003, information was received about a bomb allegedly placed in the residence of the President in the Riga Palace. The security services, searching for an explosive object in the residence of the President in the Riga Palace, check the entire area for almost two hours. Such objects are not found in the castle and its surroundings.
In 2001, the Minister of Transport of Latvia, Anatolijs Gorbunovs, and the President of the Belarusian Railways, Viktors Rakhmenko, signed a railway border agreement, which eases the process of railway freight crossing on the borders of Latvia and Belarus.
In 2000, the Association of Latvian Railwaymen celebrates its 80th anniversary.
In 2000, the executive director of the World Animal Protection Organization, Andrew Dixons, and the European regional representative of this society, Dragans Nostiks, visited Riga.
In 1999, United States congressman Lloyd Dodget visited Latvia.
In 1998, the Latvian Children’s Culture Support Fund was established.
In 1817, Alexander I approves the project of freeing farmers developed by the Courland nobility. From April 23, 1819, the new law began to be put into practice.
Events in the world
In 2012, at the age of 82, the American astronaut Neil Armstrong – the first person to land on the moon – died.
In 2004, the police of the Republic of South Africa arrested Mark Thatcher, the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, accused of participating in the coup plotting in Equatorial Guinea. Thatcher later pleaded guilty and settled with prosecutors.
In 2003, 52 people were killed and at least 150 injured in two car bomb explosions in the financial capital of India, Mumbai (Bombay).
In 2000, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe orders the government to expropriate 509 white-owned farms to provide housing for black residents.
In 1997, the last communist leader of East Germany, Egon Krenz, was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison for shooting people at the Berlin Wall in the 1980s.
In 1991, Belarus declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
In 1989, after a 12-year journey, the US spaceship “Voyager 2” flies past Neptune and its moon Triton, sending back to Earth photographs of swampy areas, frozen lakes and craters.
In 1988, a fire destroyed the historic center of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal.
In 1988, Iran and Iraq began direct negotiations to try to end the eight-year war.
In 1978, for the first time in 45 years, the Shroud of Turin, which is believed to be the Shroud of Jesus, is publicly displayed.
In 1967, the leader of the American Nazi Party, George Lincoln Rockwell, is killed by two shots outside a supermarket in Arlingon, Virginia. The co-founder of the Nazi party, John Palter, who was expelled from the party a few months ago for his passion for left-wing ideas, is detained at the scene.
In 1944, French and allied forces liberate Paris from the Nazis and General Charles de Gaulle returns to the capital.
In 1942, the younger brother of the British King George VI, the Earl of Kent, died in a plane crash during a military mission in Iceland.
In 1940, in the Second World War, a British plane drops the first bomb on Berlin.
In 1936, 16 opponents of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin were executed in Russia after a mock trial.
In 1910, the taxi company “Yellow Cab” was founded in the USA.
In 1900, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche dies.
In 1894, the Japanese biologist Sibasaburo Kitasato discovered the source of bubonic plague infection and published his findings in the journal “The Lancet”.
In 1830, Belgium revolts against the Netherlands.
In 1825, Uruguay declared independence from Brazil.
In 1768, the English sailor and explorer James Cook began his first voyage.
In 1758, the forces of Frederick II of Prussia defeated the Russian army in the Battle of Condorf.
In 1718, the city of New Orleans was founded in the state of Louisiana, USA.
In 1609, Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to the legislators of Venice.
In 1580, Spain defeats Portugal in the Battle of Alcantara.
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