Jubilees in Latvia
In 1936 Pauls Dambis – composer.
In 1939, Jānis Peters – a poet.
Jānis Peters 80th anniversary concert
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In 1944, Anna Jurkāne – director of the Turaida museum reserve, historian.
In 1954, Leonid Salcevičs – the former chairman of Jēkabpils city council.
In 1955, Egils Levits – the 10th President of the State of Latvia.
PHOTO: how the new president of Latvia was elected
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Jubilees in the world
In 1470, Charles VIII – King of France (died in 1498).
In 1893, Walter Ulbricht – German communist leader (died in 1973).
In 1917, Susan Hayward – American actress (died in 1975).
In 1942, Robert Bollard – American oceanographer.
In 1943, Florence Bollard – American singer (“The Supremes”, died in 1976).
In 1959, Brendan Perry – British musician (“Dead Can Dance”).
In 1959, Vincent D’Onofrio – American actor.
In 1966, Mike Tyson – American boxer.
In 1975 Ralf Schumacher – German driver.
In 1982, Andy Knowles – British musician (“Franz Ferdinand”).
In 1983, Cheryl Cole – British singer (“Girls Aloud”).
In 1985, Michael Phelps – an American swimmer.
Michael Phelps is celebrating a wedding in Mexico
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Events in Latvia
In 1998, the reconstructed part of the facade of the “Riga” airport was ceremonially opened, which significantly improves the movement of passengers at the airport.
In 2005, several Valmiera businessmen, representatives of non-governmental organizations and municipalities founded a new charitable organization – the Valmiera County Foundation.
Events in the world
In 1859, the French acrobat Charles Blonden crossed Niagara Falls on a stretched rope.
In 1905, Albert Einstein publishes the article “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”, in which he mentions special relativity for the first time.
In 1908, eastern Siberia is rocked by a huge explosion caused by a meteorite falling in Tungunsk. The underground jolts it caused were felt even as far as central Europe. The blast uprooted an estimated 80 million trees over an area of more than 2,150 square kilometers.
In 1934, German leader Adolf Hitler exterminates his political opponents, including special forces commander Ernst Röhm and former German chancellor Kurt von Schleicher, in the “Night of the Long Knives”.
In 1936, writer Margarete Mitchell’s novel “Gone with the Wind” was published in the USA.
In 1953, the first Chevrolet Corvette rolled off the production line in Flint, Michigan, USA.
In 1960, the Republic of Congo gained independence from Belgium.
In 1963, Cardinal Giovanni Montini was consecrated as Roman Catholic Pope Paul VI.
In 1974, during the concert tour of the Soviet “Kirov Ballet” in Canada, ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov fled to the west, asking for political asylum in Toronto.
In 1997, JK Rowling’s first book about the teenage wizard Harry Potter – “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” – was published in Great Britain.
In 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flew through Saturn’s rings and settled into its orbit to begin the most detailed study of the sixth planet from the Sun in history.
In 2005, despite fierce protests from the Catholic Church, the Spanish government approves a law legalizing gay marriage.
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