Jubilees in Latvia
In 1989, Matīss Burgis – table tennis player.
In 1986, Ilze Jura – actress.
In 1984, Guntars Silagailis – football player.
In 1978, Sandis Walters – former basketball player.
In 1975 Katrīna Avotiņa – painter.
In 1969, Gatis Truksnis – former chairman of Jurmala City Council.
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In 1967, Vasilijs Melniks – entrepreneur, chairman of the board of JSC “Rīgas kuvu būtava”.
In 1957, Andrejs Domkins – Director of Forest and Wood Research and Development Institute.
In 1956, Aina Bataraga – economist, member of “Economist Association 2010”.
In 1953, Laine Kainaize – painter.
In 1947, Ingrīda Ābola – Latvian Radio journalist and producer.
In 1946, Jānis Jurkāns – politician, former minister of foreign affairs.
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In 1928, Mārtiņš Beķers – academician of the Latvian Academy of Sciences (died in 2014).
In 1927, Gunārs Placens – theater and cinema actor.
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In 1924, Egons Livs (Egons Gūtmanis) – writer (died in 1989).
In 1897, Aleksandrs Bieziņš – professor of medical sciences, surgeon, founder of Latvian children’s surgery (died in 1975).
In 1868, Jānis Sakne – painter (died in 1950).
Jubilees in the world
In 1988, David Ospina – Colombian football player, two-time “Copa America” bronze award winner.
In 1982, José Reyna – Spanish footballer, winner of the World Cup and two-time European champion.
In 1982, Ian Crocker – American swimmer, three-time Olympic champion.
In 1977, Ian Hart – Irish football player.
In 1973, Scott Niedermeyer – Canadian hockey player, four-time Stanley Cup winner.
In 1972, Chris Tucker – American actor.
In 1970, Ranja – Queen of Jordan.
In 1963, Reb Beach – American guitarist (“Winger”, “Whitesnake”).
In 1960, Hasan Nasralla – the leader of the militant group “Hizbollah”.
In 1955, Edwin Moses – American track and field athlete, two-time Olympic Games and two-time world champion in the 400-meter hurdles.
In 1949, Richard Gere – American actor.
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In 1949, H. David Politzer – American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
In 1948, Rudolf Schenker – German guitarist (“Scorpions”).
In 1945, Van Morrison – Northern Irish musician.
In 1928, James Coburn – Hollywood television and film actor (died in 2002).
In 1908, William Saroyan – an American writer of Armenian origin (died in 1981).
In 1880, Wilhelmina I – Queen of the Netherlands (died in 1962).
In 1843, Georg von Hertling – Chancellor of Germany (died in 1919).
In the 12th year, Caligula – Roman emperor (died in the year 41).
Events in Latvia
In 2006, the expanded shopping center “Galerija Centrs” was opened. The reconstruction of the shopping center lasted eight months and the total investment of “Linstow Center Management” in the creation of the center reached 31.5 million euros. During the reconstruction and expansion, an extension of the shopping center was built and Rīdzenes street turned into a pedestrian street.
In 2003, another landslide occurred on Turaida’s hill, which is why transport traffic is closed on the road section Inciems-Sigulda. The landslide is small, but it blocks about a third of the roadway, so a decision has been made to close traffic in order to avoid accidents.
In 2002, the first Riga Chess Festival began in Riga Congress House and Kronvalda Park.
In 2001, the new ice hall of SIA “Sporta kompleksas “Zemgale”” was solemnly opened in Jelgava.
In 2001, State President Vaira Vīke-Freiberga participated in the UN conference on manifestations of intolerance in the South African city of Durban.
In 2000, the Riga District Court sentenced Ainārs Eisaks, the former director of the “Misis Latvija” office, who was accused of pederasty, to five years’ imprisonment, but according to the Amnesty Law, the sentence was reduced twice.
In 1999, the Riga Regional Court recognized the insolvency of AS “Rīgas gaisā lijnas” (RIAIR).
In 1999, the Cabinet of Ministers decided to liquidate the state joint-stock company “Valsts rožinbūve”, whose previous work was recognized as ineffective.
In 1998, a protest against the construction of the Būtingė oil terminal in Latvia ends. During the campaign, a total of 17,500 signatures were collected against the construction of the Būtingės oil terminal in Lithuania, as well as the demand to stop the operation of the Ignalina nuclear power plant, which were submitted to the Lithuanian ambassador in Latvia.
In 1998, the Skrunda radar station (RLS) was closed. Thus, the period of temporary functioning of the RLS ends and the dismantling works begin, which must be completed by February 29, 2000. On October 19, 1999, the inspection of the European Security and Cooperation Organization officially confirms that the dismantling of the Skrunda RLS has been completed.
Events in the world
In 2016, the Brazilian Senate impeached President Dilma Rousseff, accusing her of manipulating the state budget.
In 2006, the Norwegian police recovered Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream”, which had been stolen from the Oslo museum two years ago, and which was found to have minor damage caused by glass fragments and moisture.
In 2005, at the age of 96, Polish-born British scientist Joseph Rothblatt, who worked on the development of the atomic bomb and won the Nobel Peace Prize as a campaigner against nuclear weapons, died.
In 2005, about 1,000 Shiites were killed on a bridge over the Tigris River in Baghdad, as a crowd panicked over a possible suicide bomber.
In 2004, the US Republican Party nominated George Bush for the presidential election.
In 2002, the American jazz legend Lionel Hampton died at the age of 94.
In 2000, the Millennium World Peace Summit, attended by more than a thousand world religious and spiritual leaders, concludes in New York at the UN headquarters.
In 1999, shortly after takeoff from Buenos Aires airport, an Argentine passenger plane crashed on the highway, killing at least 71 people.
In 1997, British Princess Diana and her friend Dodi al-Fayed died in a car accident in Paris.
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In 1994, the Irish Republican Army announced the end of the 25-year militant war against British rule in Northern Ireland, turning instead to a negotiated united Ireland.
In 1991, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan declared independence from the Soviet Union.
In 1990, East Germany and West Germany signed an agreement on the harmonization of their political systems after the unification scheduled for October 3.
In 1989, after 16 years of marriage, British Princess Anne and her husband, Captain Mark Phillips, divorced.
In 1986, a passenger plane “Douglas DC-9” collided with a small plane near the Los Angeles airport, both planes crashed in the suburbs of Los Angeles. The crash kills 67 people on both planes and 15 people on the ground.
In 1986, the Soviet passenger ferry “Admiral Nahimov” sank in the Black Sea after a collision with the cargo ship “Pyotr Vasev”, as a result of which 398 people lost their lives.
In 1980, the trade union “Solidarity” was founded in Poland.
In 1969, former world heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano died in a plane crash in Iowa.
In 1962, Trinidad and Tobago became an independent country within the British Commonwealth of Nations.
In 1957, the Federation of Malaya gained independence from Great Britain.
In 1939, Nazi Germany staged a staged attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, then used it as an excuse to attack Poland the next day, starting World War II in Europe.
In 1928, the premiere of “The Three Graces Opera” written by Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill takes place in Berlin.
In 1920, Detroit radio station 8MK broadcasts the first radio news program.
In 1907, Great Britain, France and Russia signed a convention in St. Petersburg, resolving differences over Persia, Afghanistan and Tibet.
In 1897, the American inventor Thomas Edison patents the first movie projector.
In 1888, prostitute Mary Ann Nichols is killed in London, the first known victim of Jack the Ripper.
In 1876, Sultan Murat V of the Ottoman Empire was overthrown, and his brother Abdulhamid II took his place.
In 1056, the Byzantine empress Theodora died unexpectedly. As she has no descendants, her death ends the Macedonian dynasty.
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