Jubilees in Latvia
In 1948 Oskars Zīds – politician, rector of the Baltic International Academy.
In 1966, Larisa Neilande – a Latvian tennis player of Ukrainian origin, was the world leader in doubles, French “open” and Wimbledon champion.
In 1967, Laine Skopiņa – lawyer.
Jubilees in the world
In 1510, Alessandro de’ Medici – Duke of Florence (died in 1537).
In 1890, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy – matriarch of the influential American Kennedy family (died in 1995).
1932 Oscar de la Renta – Dominican/US fashion designer (died 2014).
In 1938, Terence Stamp – English film actor.
In 1941, George Clinton – American singer, songwriter and record producer, one of the fathers of funk music.
In 1946, Mireille Mathieu – French singer.
In 1947, Don Henley – American drummer, singer and songwriter (“Eagles”).
In 1947, Danny Glover – American actor.
In 1949, Lase Virens – Finnish track and field athlete, long-distance runner, four-time Olympic champion.
In 1955, Willem Dafoe – American actor.
In 1963, Emilio Butragenho – Spanish football player,
In 1967 Rhys Ifans – Welsh actor and musician.
1973 Rufus Wainwright – American/Canadian musician.
In 1974, Franka Potente – German actress.
In 1980, Dirks Kujts – Dutch football player, silver medal winner of the 2010 World Cup final tournament and bronze medal winner of the 2014 World Cup final tournament.
In 1983 Decls, real name Kirils Tolmackis – Russian rapper (died in 2019).
Decl, the rapper who died at the age of 35, was last seen in Moscow
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In 1987, Charlotte Kalla – Swedish cross-country skier, three-time Olympic and three-time world champion.
In 1992, Selena Gomez – American singer and actress.
Selena Gomez attends the We Day charity event in a Dior dress
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In 2013, Prince George of Wales.
Prince George and Princess Charlotte visit their newborn brother in hospital
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Events in Latvia
In 1997, the Commercial Port of Riga acquired the status of a free port.
In 1998, an agreement was signed on the merger of the leasing companies “Hanza līzings” and “Latvijas Zemes bankas līzings”.
In 1999, the Būtingės oil terminal in Lithuania begins work.
In 2001, the oldest restored yacht “Amata” in Latvia, built in 1909, was ceremonially opened at the Jūrmala city festival.
In 2003, in Riga, at the corner of Krišjāņa Valdemāra Street and Rainiņa Boulevard, a monument to the statesman and patriot, Prime Minister Kārlis Ulmanis was unveiled.
Events in the world
In 1298, the forces of King Edward I of England defeated the Scottish rebels led by William Wallace in the Battle of Falkirk.
In 1456, Johann Hunjadi, regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, defeated the forces of Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire, ending the siege of Belgrade. This victory stopped the Ottoman advance in Catholic Europe for 70 years.
In 1917, Alexander Kerensky became the Prime Minister of the Provisional Government of Russia.
In 1933, American aviator Willie Poust became the first person to fly around the world alone, covering 25,094 kilometers in seven days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
In 1934, the famous bank robber John Dillinger was shot by agents of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation near the “Biograph” cinema in Chicago.
In 1942, the Nazis began to systematically deport Jews who were not employed in German factories from the Warsaw ghetto to death camps. Over the next 52 days, 300,000 Jews were taken to the Treblinka death camp.
In 1946, the Jewish militant group “Irgun” blew up the headquarters of the British Civil and Military Administration in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people. The attack was organized by one of the leaders of the “Irgun”, David Bengurion, who later became the first prime minister of Israel.
In 2003, Uday and Qusay, the sons of the deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, as well as Qusay’s 14-year-old son Mustafa Hussein, were killed in an airstrike in the Iraqi city of Mosul.
In 2005, British police officers killed Brazilian Jean-Charles de Menezes with seven shots in the head, mistaking him for a suicide bomber.
In 2008, one of the most wanted people in the world was arrested in Serbia – Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, who had been on the run from the UN war crimes tribunal for almost 13 years.
In 2011, the 32-year-old extremist Anders Behring-Breivik carried out an explosion in a block of Norwegian government buildings in the center of Oslo. Eight people are killed and more than 200 are injured. He then goes to the island of Uteia, where he attacks the members of the summer camp of the youth organization of the ruling Labor Party. Dressed in a police uniform, Behring-Breivik shot dead 69 people, mostly terrified teenagers, in more than an hour. Another 67 people are injured.
Breivik at the court hearing on March 16, 2016
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In 2013, the first child of British Prince William and his wife Catherine was born. He is given the name George Alexander Louis.
Prince George and Queen Elizabeth II
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