Anniversaries 🎂
🎂1845: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen🩻, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate – X-rays
🎂1888: Alexei Mateevici✒️ was one of the most representative Romanian writers from Bessarabia
🎂1899: Gloria Swanson🎬 was one of the most important Hollywood silent film divas
🎂1908: Șerban Țițeica🔬, Romanian physicist, member of the Romanian Academy
🎂1950: Tony Banks 🎸(Genesis)
🎂1952: Gheorghe Tadici🤾
🎂1953: George Copos💰
🎂1956: Calotă Flower🎵
🎂1963: Quentin Tarantino🎬
🎂1969: Mariah Carey🎵
🎂1971: David Coulthard🏎
🎂1975: Fergie🎵
🎂1976: Roberta Anastase🗣
🎂1986: Manuel Neuer⚽️
🎂1988: Jessie J🎵
Commemorations🕯
🕯1613: Sigismund Báthory♚prince of Transylvania. There was an attempt to achieve the first union of Transylvania with Wallachia and Moldova, the so-called “Dacian plan”
🕯1875: Edgar Quinet✒️, istoric francez
🕯1968: Iuri Gagarin👩🏼🚀
🕯2008: George-Mihail Pruteanu✒️
🕯2014: Augustin Deleanu⚽️ played in the Romanian national football team at the 1970 World Football Championship in Mexico, a performance for which in March 2008 he was decorated with the “Sports Merit” Order, 3rd class
🕯2018: Aimée Iacobescu🎬protégé of writer Eugen Barbu, filmed with director Dinu Cocea and then became Sergiu Nicolaescu’s favorite
Calendar🗒 Events
📋Day of solidarity of artists🕊
📋World Theater Day🎭
💶The International Organization of Francophonie launches in Romania the Economic and Commercial Mission of Francophonie in Central and Eastern Europe
🏛The National Art Museum of Romania and the National Art Museum of Moldova in Chisinau organize the opening of the exhibition “A century of Bessarabian painting. One hundred works from the MNAM collection”, on the occasion of the anniversary of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania
⚽️Women’s Champions League, return of the quarter-finals
🗒1513: Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León is the first European to see Florida, which he believed to be an island
🗒1697: The Synod of Alba Iulia, convened by Metropolitan Teofil, adopted the Union with Rome, an act that laid the foundations of the Romanian Church United with Rome.
🗒1703: Russia: Peter the Great founded Saint Petersburg.
🗒1849: “Paulskirche Constitution” (Paulskirchenverfassung), the first democratic constitution in Germany.
🗒1850: The first issue of the weekly magazine Household Words, by Charles Dickens was published in London.
🗒1886: The famous Apache fighter, Geronimo, surrenders to the American army; the main phase of the Apache Wars ends.
🗒1899: Guglielmo Marconi made the first wireless telegraphic link between England and France
🗒1907: Being in Paris, Constantin Brâncusi, apprentice of the sculptor August Rodin, decided to leave his workshop, uttering the famous words: “Under the shadow of an oak, only grass can grow”. Also from that year, Brâncusi gave up traditional modeling, working directly in stone
🗒1914: The Romanian Olympic Committee was founded, recognized in the same year by the International Olympic Committee
🗒1918: Union of Bessarabia with Romania, by decision of the Council of the Country; this was the beginning of the formation process of Greater Romania.
🗒1933: Japan left the League of Nations.
🗒1958: Nikita Khrushchev becomes president of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
🗒1977: Tenerife air disaster: The worst accident in the history of civil aviation, with the highest number of victims. In dense fog, while one Boeing 747 was parked on the runway, another Boeing aircraft wanted to take off and plowed into the stationary plane. Of the 644 people on board both planes, 583 died and only 61 survived
🗒1994: In Italian parliamentary elections, Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party became a dominant force, enabling him to form a centre-right government
🗒2020: North Macedonia becomes the 30th member state of NATO
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