Jubilees in Latvia
In 1974, Igors Sokolovs – track and field athlete, Latvian record holder in hammer throw.
In 1976, Liene Circene – pianist.
In 1978, Māra Mennika – Valmiera Drama Theater actress.
Jubilees in the world
In 1882, Samuel Goldwyn – American film producer (died in 1974).
In 1893, Maya West – American actress (died in 1980).
In 1911, Mikhail Botvinnik – a Jewish chess player living in Russia, was a world champion (died in 1995).
In 1943, Robert de Niro – American actor, winner of two “Oscar” awards.
Robert De Niro and his wife Grace Hightower walk hand in hand
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In 1952, Nelson Piquet – Brazilian driver, three-time F1 champion.
In 1952, Guillermo Vilas – Argentine tennis player, winner of four “Grand Slam” tournaments.
In 1958, Belinda Carlisle – American singer (“The Go-Go’s”).
In 1960, Sean Penn – American actor and director, winner of two “Oscar” awards.
In 1962, Gilby Clark – American musician (“Guns N’ Roses”).
In 1969, Donnie Wahlberg – American musician (“New Kids On The Block”).
In 1970, Jim Currier – American tennis player, former world leader, winner of four “Grand Slam” tournaments and winner of two Davis Cups, now a tennis commentator.
In 1977, Thierry Henry – French football player, now coach, 1998 World Cup winner, 2000 European champion.
In 1977, William Galla – French football player, silver medal winner of the 2006 World Cup final tournament, winner of the 2003 Confederations Cup.
In 1980, Lene Marlin – Norwegian singer.
In 1993 Ederson – Brazilian footballer, winner of the 2019 “Copa America”, finalist of the 2021 “Copa America”.
Events in Latvia
In 1764, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, one of the most prominent architects of the 18th century, came to Kurzeme and stayed intermittently to participate in the completion of the construction of Rundāle and Jelgava castles.
In 1803, a solar eclipse was observed for the first time in Riga. The observation was made by the German lawyer and astronomer Johann Georg Andreas Brickner. On the other hand, in 1802, he determined the geographical longitude and latitude of Riga, using measurements of the height of the Sun.
In the year 2000, two explosions take place in the evening in the “Centrs” department store in Riga, in which 38 people suffer, including the general director of “RIMI Baltija” Knuts Kvisviks.
In 2000, the campaign “Life Style” on the water 2000″ begins, during which a raft made of inflated condoms travels across the sea.
In 2001, celebrating the 130th birthday of the second president of the State of Latvia and the head of the city of Riga, Gustavus Zemgal, in front of the house in Riga, Krišjāņa Barona iela 3, on the side of Elizabetes iela, a memorial sign created by the sculptor Bruno Strautiņas was unveiled.
In 2001, the culminating events of Riga’s 800th anniversary celebrations begin.
In 2006, a charity concert of well-known musicians in Latvia in support of Lebanese children “From a small state, from a large heart” is held in Vērmanes garden, in which the group “Tumsa”, Lauris Reiniks and “VIA” girls, Chilli, “Putnu balle”, “Z-Scars” take part “, “Astro’n’out”, “Double Faced Eels”, “Baraka”, Gunārs Kalniņš and the gospel choir, “Metanoia”, “Secondchance” and “Goran Gora”.
Events in the world
In 1807, the first commercial steamship voyage in the world takes place in New York.
In 1908, the world’s first animated film, created by the Frenchman Emile Cole, was screened in Paris.
In 1943, in World War II, the US 7th Army arrives in Messina, Italy, and after a few hours, the British 8th Army joins the allied forces, completing the occupation of Sicily.
In 1945, George Orwell’s novel “Animal Farm” was published.
In 1962, 18-year-old Peter Fechter was shot by East German border guards while trying to escape to West Berlin, allowing him to bleed to death and become the first “victim of the wall”. In 1996, two former guards are tried for Fechter’s murder.
In 1975, the Soviet icebreaker “Arktika” became the first ship to reach the North Pole.
In 1978, “Double Eagle II” became the first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean, reaching the vicinity of Paris in 137 hours from the state of Maine, USA.
In 1982, the first compact disc in the world goes on sale in Germany.
In 1987, Rudolf Hess, the deputy of the leader of the Nazi regime, Adolf Hitler, was found hanging from an electrical cord in a Berlin prison.
In 1998, US President Bill Clinton admits that he had an “inappropriate physical relationship” with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. A few hours later, he addresses the nation and admits that he “misled the people” on the matter.
In 1999, the French prosecutor declares driver Henri Paul to be the sole culprit in the tragic car accident in Paris in which Princess Diana died, and announces that the investigation is closed.
In 2008, American swimmer Michael Phelps became the first athlete to win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games.
In 2012, a Russian court found three members of the punk group “Pussy Riot” guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and sentenced them to two years in prison for the anti-Putin “punk prayer” campaign “Godmother, expel Putin!” held in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in the capital of Russia.
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