Notable Jubilees and Events: Latvia, World, and Historical Highlights

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Alisher Usmanov – a Russian billionaire born in Uzbekistan in 1953.

In 1952, David Stewart – English musician (“Eurythmics”).

In 1951, Alexander Downer – Australian politician, former Minister of Foreign Affairs.

In 1949, Susilo Bambang Judojono – President of Indonesia.

In 1941, Otis Redding – American musician (died in 1967).

In 1941, Dennis Ritchie – an American computer scientist, one of the creators of the UNIX operating system.

In 1939, Carlos Ortiz – Puerto Rican boxer.

In 1927, Elvin Jones – American jazz drummer (died in 2004).

In 1923, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek – American virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 2008).

In 1922, Hans Georg Demelt – physicist born in Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 2017).

In 1890, Colonel Harland David Sanders – founder of the fast food restaurant chain “Kentucky Fried Chicken” (died in 1980).

In 1873, Max Reinhardt – German film director and actor (died in 1943).

In 1855, Anthony Francis Lukas – an oil mining pioneer born in Croatia, discoverer of the first oil mining site in Texas (died in 1921).

In 1585, Armand Jean di Plessis – French Cardinal Richelieu (died in 1642).

In 384, Flavius ​​- Roman emperor (died in 423).

In 214, Aurelian – Roman emperor (died in 275).

Events in Latvia

In 2008, one of the strong Latvian men, son of Fisherman, Kaupo, Roplainis, father of Indranu Roberts Zēbergs, passed away.

In 2003, the Cabinet of Ministers supported the appointment of Security Police officer Juta Strīke to the position of head of the Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau (KNAB). On September 18, the Saeima rejected her confirmation in this position in a secret vote. Despite this, according to the order issued by the Prime Minister Einars Repše, as of September 22, Strīķe is appointed acting head of KNAB.

In 2003, the Rīga square was solemnly opened in St. Petersburg, created under the supervision of the specialists of the Rīga municipal company “Rīgas dārži un parki” as a gift to St. Petersburg on its 300th anniversary.

In 2002, the Senate of the Supreme Court rejected the protest of Mārtiņš Dudelis, the chairman of the Department of Civil Affairs, in the case of removing Jānis Ādamsons from the list of candidates for the 8th Saeima. Along with this judgment, the decision of the Riga Center District Court, which rejected Ādamson’s complaint against the Central Election Commission (CEC) for removing him from the list, admitting that the CEC acted legally, is upheld.

In 2000, Lee Peng, the chairman of the People’s Representative Assembly of the People’s Republic of China, arrives in Riga on an official visit.

In 1999, the association “Tēvzemei ​​und Brīvība”/LNNK expelled MP Oskars Griga from the Saeima faction for disciplinary violations.

In 1998, Javier Rupares, president of the North Atlantic Assembly, comes to Riga on a working visit.

In 1998, an official reception of the reconstructed East pier takes place in the port of Riga. The main functions of the breakwater are to retain the sand drifts of underwater currents. The light signal device and power supply batteries have also been completely reconstructed.

Events in the world

In 2015, Queen Elizabeth II became the longest-reigning British monarch, spending more than 63 years on the throne.

British Queen Elizabeth II

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In 2009, with the opening of the metro line, Dubai became the first city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to introduce rail into daily traffic.

In 2005, in the country’s first multi-candidate presidential election, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was elected head of state for a fifth consecutive six-year term with 88.6 percent of the vote.

In 2003, the Archdiocese of Boston agreed to pay $85 million to settle lawsuits filed by hundreds of people alleging child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy.

In 2003, the pioneer of molecular physics and the “father of the hydrogen bomb”, Edward Teller, died at the age of 95.

In 2003, Argentina was unable to pay the International Monetary Fund (IMF) a debt of three billion dollars. This is the largest outstanding debt in the history of the IMF.

In 2002, the Calcutta-Delhi passenger train “Rajdhani Express” derailed in India. The accident killed at least 126 people and injured around 200 more.

In 2001, the commander of the Northern Alliance of Afghan militants, Ahmad Shah Masud, was mortally wounded in a suicide bombing, and died of his injuries on September 14.

In 1999, 94 people were killed in a powerful explosion in a residential building in Moscow.

In 1996, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Burundi, Joachim Ruhun, was killed in an attack by Hutu rebels.

In 1995, the “PlayStation” game console of the “Sony” company is released on the US market.

In 1993, the Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognized Israel as a legitimate state.

In 1991, Tajikistan declared its independence from the Soviet Union.

In 1976, at the age of 83, the leader of the Chinese revolution, Mao Zedong, who announced the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 in Beijing, died.

In 1975, Czech tennis player Martina Navratilova applied for political asylum in the United States.

In 1971, an uprising takes place in the Attica maximum prison in the US state of New York and the inmates take control of the prison, taking the guards hostage. 10 hostages and 29 prisoners are killed in the failed rescue operation.

In 1965, hurricane “Betsy” in the US city of New Orleans takes the lives of 76 people and causes damages in the amount of 1.42 billion dollars.

In 1948, after the withdrawal of Soviet forces from the north of the Korean Peninsula, North Korea announced the establishment of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea with Pyongyang as its capital.

In 1945, Japan officially surrenders to China.

In 1944, the day after the Soviet forces entered Bulgaria, local communists overthrew the country’s Prime Minister Kimon Giorgjev in a coup d’état, and Konstantin Muravyov took his place.

In 1942, a Japanese plane dropped incendiary bombs on the US city of Oregon.

In 1926, the American broadcasting corporation “National Broadcasting Company” or NBC was founded.

In 1922, the Greek-Turkish war ended with the victory of Turkey. Most of the city of Smyrna (now Izmir) is burned and the non-Turkish population flees.

In 1914, after a counterattack by the British and French forces, Helmut von Moltke, commander of the German headquarters, stops the advance of the German forces, ending the first Battle of the Marne. The number of casualties on the German side reaches approximately 800,000.

In 1901, the French artist and lithographer Henri de Toulouse Lautrec died at the age of 37.

In 1893, US President Grover Cleveland’s wife Frances gave birth to the couple’s daughter, Esther, in the White House.

In 1886, work on the Berne Convention on the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is completed.

In 1850, California became the 33rd state of the USA.

In 1839, the English mathematician and astronomer John Herschel takes the first photograph on a glass plate.

In 1791, the capital of the United States was named Washington in honor of President George Washington.

In 1776, the Continental Congress officially named the new union of sovereign states the United States of America.

In 1543, the nine-month-old Mary Stuart was crowned Queen of Scots.

In 1493, in the battle of Krbava, the Croats suffered a decisive defeat in the fight against the Ottoman invasion.

In 1379, the Austrian Habsburg lands are divided between the Habsburg dukes Albert III and Leopold III with the Treaty of Neuberg.

In 1087, King William the Conqueror of England died in France, falling from his horse.

In 1000, the Battle of Svold between Norwegians and other Scandinavians breaks out in the Baltic Sea.

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