Jubilees in Latvia
In 1809, Dāvis Balodis – is considered the first Latvian who became an Orthodox priest (died in 1864).
In 1928, Viktors Kalnbērzs – a surgeon and politician, a full member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, was a member of the Saeima and Riga City Council (died in 2021).
In 1942, Ivars Strautiņš – businessman, vice-president of the Confederation of Employers of Latvia (died in 2020).
In 1961, Guntis Berelis – writer, literary critic.
In 1988, Aleksandrs Fadeevs – hockey player.
Jubilees in the world
In 1714, Christoph Wilbalds Gluck – German composer (died in 1787).
In 1877, Hermanis Hesse – German writer (died in 1962).
In 1903, Ulav V – King of Norway (died in 1991).
In 1922, Pierre Cardin – French fashion designer of Italian origin (died in 2020).
French fashion legend Pierre Cardin (1922-2020) and the clothes he made
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1925 Patrice Lumumba – Democratic Republic of the Congo independence fighter and first prime minister after the Democratic Republic of the Congo gained independence from Belgium (assassinated in 1961).
1946 Ron Silver – American actor, producer, director and radio personality (died 2009).
In 1947, Larry David – American comedian, actor, director and television producer, winner of the “Emmy” award.
In 1953, Mark Hart – British musician (“Crowded House”).
In 1954 Pete Bricket – English musician (“Boomtown Rats”).
In 1956, Jerry Hall – American actress and model.
In 1961, Sami Naseri – French actor (“Taxi”).
In 1979, Joe Thornton – Canadian/American hockey player, participated in the NHL “All-Star Game” six times, Olympic champion in 2010.
In 1985, Ashley Tisdale – American actress and singer.
In 1986, Lindsay Lohan – American actress and musician.
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In 1990, Danny Rose – English football player.
In 1990, Margot Robbie – Australian actress.
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Events in Latvia
In 1289, the Riga Debt Book mentions the first historically known physician in Riga, whose name was Bruno.
In 1570, one of the oldest pharmacies in Riga – Buša Aptieka – was established. Its first owner was a doctor, K. Egerst.
In 1745, the well-known German woodcarver, art carpenter Karls Gottlobs Apelbaums, who made the organ for St. John’s Church and Old St. Gertrude’s Church, arrived in Riga.
In 1934, the first prisoners were brought to the Liepāja concentration camp, which was a concentration camp-type prison in the territory of the Liepaja war port between May 1934 and March 1935, where existing and potential political opponents of the regime were imprisoned as a preventive measure after the coup of Kārlis Ulmanis .
In 1938, the border issue with Poland, which claimed Borna, Demenes, Kalkūnas, Skrundalien and Borovka parishes, was completely resolved.
In 1941, Latvia with Riga as its center was included in a special formation of the German occupation administration – the Reichskommissariat of Ostland.
In 1944, the Gestapo arrested Brūno Kalniņa, the deputy chairman of the Central Council of Latvia.
In 2003, the Environmental Protection Club (VAK) appealed to the Northern District Court of the city of Riga regarding the construction of the office building “Saules Akmens”.
Events in the world
In 1494, Spain ratifies the Treaty of Tordesillas, which defines the sphere of influence of Spain and Portugal in the world.
In 1566, the French apothecary and seer Nostradamus, whose real name was Michel de Notre-Dame (born in 1503), died.
In 1698, English engineer Thomas Severy patents his first steam engine.
In 1777, Vermont becomes the first state in the United States to abolish slavery.
In 1839, near the shores of Cuba, 53 black slaves revolted and took control of the ship “Amistad”, with which they were taken as slaves to the American continent.
In 1853, the Russian army invaded Turkey, starting the Crimean War.
In 1881, US President James Garfield was mortally wounded in an assassination attempt, and he died on September 19.
In 1900, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in Germany takes off his first aircraft, which later got the name Zeppelin.
In 1937, an airplane with American aviator Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot Fred Noonan, who were trying to fly around the world, disappears over the Pacific Ocean.
In 1940, during the Second World War, a Nazi German submarine torpedoed the liner “Arandora Star”, which was transporting German and Italian prisoners of war to Canada, killing 750 prisoners of war and the ship’s crew.
In 1947, near Roswell in the US state of New Mexico, an object crashes, about the origin of which many rumors are spreading around the world, bringing to the fore the version of a crashed aircraft of an extraterrestrial civilization. The US Air Force claims the object is a downed weather balloon.
In 1961, the American writer Ernest Hemingway died, who entered the history of literature with such works as “A Farewell to Arms” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls”.
In 1976, after the Vietnam War, North Vietnam and South Vietnam are reunited into one country with Hanoi as the capital. Vietnam was divided since 1954.
In 1990, 1,496 Muslim pilgrims were crushed to death in a tunnel during the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
In 2001, after a seven-hour operation at the University of Louisville, surgeons Leman Gray and Robert Dowling implanted the first self-sustaining mechanical heart in a patient.
In 2002, millionaire Steve Fawcett became the first person in the world to fly non-stop around the globe in a hot air balloon. He flew almost 31,400 kilometers.
In 2005, singers Paul McCartney and “U2” leader Bono hold a “Live 8” concert in London’s Hyde Park to fight against poverty, which is the centerpiece of a series of ten concerts taking place around the world. This event is becoming the biggest music event ever.
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