Jubilees in Latvia
In 1936, Jānis Streičs – film director and artist.
In 1951, Laimonis Strujevičs – businessman, politician, former Minister of Economy.
In 1953, Aivars Lembergs – Chairman of the Ventspils City Council.
In 1954, Anita Kvālas – Liepaja Theater actress.
In 1956, Guntis Rutkis – an employee of security institutions, the first head of the Office for the Prevention and Combating of Corruption (died in June 2012).
In 1959, Gundars Bērziņš – former Minister of Finance and Health.
In 1966, Andris Makovskis – actor (died in 2009).
In 1970, Leonid Tambijev – hockey player, now a coach.
In 1978, Mārtiņš Rubenis – luge driver, bronze medal winner at the Turin Olympic Games.
Jubilees in the world
In 1181, Saint Francis of Assisi – the founder of the Franciscan order (died in 1226).
In 1750, Cuthbert Collingwood – British admiral (died in 1810).
In 1873, Alexey Shusev – a Russian architect who designed the Lenin Mausoleum (died in 1949).
In 1888, TS Eliot – writer and editor born in the USA, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1965).
In 1898, George Gershwin – American composer (died in 1937).
In 1907, Anthony Blunt – English art historian and Soviet spy (died in 1983).
In 1909, Bill French – founder of NASCAR (died in 1992).
1926 Julia London – American singer and actress (died 2000).
In 1945, Brian Ferry – British singer (“Roxy Music”).
In 1956, Linda Hamilton – American actress.
In 1965, Petro Poroshenko – former president of Ukraine.
In 1968, Jim Caviezel – American actor.
In 1972, Sean Stockman – American R&B singer (“Boys II Men”).
In 1976, Michael Ballak – German football player.
In 1980, Dāniels Sēdins – Swedish ice hockey player.
In 1980, Henriks Sedins – Swedish ice hockey player.
In 1981, Serena Williams – American tennis player.
In 1983, Ricardo Quarezma – Portuguese footballer, 2016 European champion.
In 1984, Keisha Buchanan – English singer (“Sugababes”).
In 1985, Lenna Kūrmas – Estonian singer (“Vanilla Ninja”).
Events in Latvia
In 875, the oldest information about the division of the territory of Latvia was provided. Archbishop Rimberts of Hamburg and Bremen in his description of “The Life of St. Anskars” mentions the country of Kursa, which had five castle districts and two cities – Jūrpils (present-day Grobiņa) and Apūle (present-day Lithuanian city).
In 1347, for the first time in the documents of the Rīga Rāte, special officials appointed by the Rīga Rāte are mentioned – masters of office. The task of these officials was to supervise the activities of artisan cunfs. They checked the quality of goods, gave permission to convene cunfte meetings, punished craftsmen for violations of the rules of the cunfte craft roll.
In 1629, the Armistice of Altmark was concluded between Sweden and Poland-Lithuania, which ended hostilities in the Polish-Swedish War (from 1600 to 1629). The contract was concluded in the village of Altmark in Prussia for six years. With the armistice, Sweden acquired Southern Estonia and Vidzeme up to the Aiviekste river, while the Duchy of Pārdaugava, which was divided into two parts, came under the control of Poland.
In 1927, the rank of admiral was awarded for the first time in Latvia, which was received by the sea captain, the commander of the Latvian Navy, the Baltic German Archibalds von Keizerling. On the other hand, the first Latvian was awarded the rank of admiral only 11 years later – in 1938, sea captain Teodoras Spade.
In 1936, the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new building of the Army economic store, or now the shopping center “Galerija Centrs”, takes place, in which the then Prime Minister of Latvia Kārlis Ulmanis also participates.
In 1961, the scientific nuclear reactor started operating in Salaspils, which was the impetus for the development of science and technology related to nuclear energy in Latvia. It was the first and only civilian research reactor in the Baltics. Young scientists focused on nuclear physics, radiation physics and chemistry, including radiobiology. Scientific research in the nuclear reactor took place until 1998, when its operation was stopped on June 19.
In 1994, the legendary actor, Latvian archer Ēvalds Valters died at the age of 100.
Events in the world
In 1580, Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe.
In 1687, in the battle against the Ottoman Turkish forces besieged in Athens, the Parthenon of Athens was partially destroyed in an explosion organized by the Venetian army.
In 1918, when French and American forces attacked on a wide front, the last major battle of the First World War began – the Battle of Argonne.
In 1954, the Japanese railway ferry “Toya Maru” sank during a typhoon, killing 1172 people.
In 1957, the first performance of “West Side Story” by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim takes place in New York.
In 1960, the first nationally televised presidential debate between Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy takes place in the United States.
In 1961, the first Bob Dylan concert takes place.
In 1973, the supersonic plane “Concorde” made its first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, and at record speed.
In 1983, Soviet army officer Stanislav Petrov averts global nuclear war by logically dismissing an American nuclear attack alarm as a hardware error.
In 1988, Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was stripped of his Olympic gold medal in the 100-meter sprint when he was caught using doping.
In 1997, Italian mafia boss Salvatore Rina and 23 other people were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of prosecutor Giovanni Falcone in 1992.
In 2002, the Senegalese ferry “Joola” sank off the coast of Gambia. Only 64 out of 1,863 people survive the disaster.
In 2014, 43 students are kidnapped and killed in Mexico, causing a widespread political crisis in the country. Corrupt municipal police officers who have cooperated with drug cartels are suspected.
