2023-04-18 01:26:00
Jubilees in Latvia
In 1986, Uģis Avotiņš – hockey player.
In 1985, Artūrs Dīcis – actor and playwright.
In 1975, Anna Auziņa – poet and painter.
In 1962, Uldis Sesks – the former chairman of the Liepāja City Council.
In 1957, Ivars Brīver – Professor of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Business Informatics at the University of Banking.
In 1956, Andris Andrušaitis – hydrobiologist, marine biologist, head of the Department of Hydrobiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Latvia, professor.
In 1940, Rasma Valdmane – conductor (died in 2021).
In 1904, Pēteris Barisons – composer and conductor (died in 1947).
Jubilees in the world
In 1990, Wojciech Szczesny – Polish football goalkeeper.
In 1987, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley – British supermodel.
In 1984, America Ferrer – American actress (star of “Ugly Betty” series).
In 1979, Kourtney Kardashian – American TV show star, entrepreneur and model.
In 1974, Edgars Raits – English director, producer and screenwriter.
In 1973, Haile Gebrselasi – Ethiopian track and field athlete, two-time Olympic and four-time world champion in the 10-kilometer race.
In 1972, Ilaj Roth – American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.
In 1971, David Tennant – Scottish actor.
In 1967, Maria Bello – American actress.
In 1963, Conan O’Brien – American comedian.
In 1956, Eric Roberts – American actor.
In 1955, Mike Naumenko – Soviet rock musician (died in 1991).
In 1949, Bengt Holmström – Finnish economist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Economics.
In 1947, James Woods – American actor, winner of two “Emmy” and one “Golden Globe”.
In 1942, Jochen Rint – an Austrian F-1 pilot of German origin, who became the world champion after his death (died in 1970).
In 1940, Joseph Goldstein – American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate.
In 1939, Ali Khamenei – the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In 1927, Tadeusz Mazowecki – Polish author, journalist, philanthropist and politician, former Prime Minister of Poland (died in 2013).
In 1927, Samuel Huntington – American political scientist (died in 2008).
In 1905, George Hitchings – American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1998).
In 1901, László Nemet – Hungarian dentist, writer and playwright (died in 1975).
In 1882, Leopold Stokowski – Polish conductor (died in 1942).
In 1797, Louis Adolphe Thiers – French politician and historian (died in 1877).
In 1605, Giacomo Carissimi – Italian composer (died in 1674).
In 1580, Thomas Middleton – English playwright (died in 1627).
Events in Latvia
In 2007, the outstanding cultural worker of Latgale, artist and poet Antons Kūkojs died.
In 2007, Latvian Ambassador to Greece Līga Bergmane submitted a letter of accreditation to the President of Greece, Karols Papoulias, thus becoming a full-fledged ambassador to Greece.
In 2006, Prime Minister Aigars Kalvītis (TP) goes on a working visit to Japan in order to promote economic relations between the two countries in talks with officials and businessmen of this country. Kalvītis meets with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Foreign Minister Taro Aso.
In 2006, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh to Latvia Amir Huseins Sikders and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Korea Lee Jun-hi came to the State President Vaira Vīke-Freiberg on an accreditation visit.
In 2006, the Cabinet of Ministers approved Jānis Vucāns, doctor of mathematics, as rector of Ventspils University. The regular rector’s election at Ventspils University of Applied Sciences was held on February 13, and Jānis Vucāns was re-elected unanimously as the rector of Ventspils University of Applied Sciences at the Constituent Assembly.
In 2005, State President Vaira Vīke-Freiberga goes on a state visit to Turkey, where she meets with Turkish President Ahmet Nejbet Sezer and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Together with the president, three members of the government and a large delegation of businessmen are going to Turkey.
In 2002, State President Vaira Vīke-Freiberga is on a state visit to the Republic of Slovenia.
In 2002, the representative office of the Lithuanian resort town of Palanga in Latvia was solemnly opened in Riga.
In 2001, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs José Pique i Camps is in Latvia on an official visit.
In 2001, in Riga, in front of the building of the Cabinet of Ministers, there is a disabled picket against discrimination of disabled people in health care and social security.
In 2000, the air temperature record of 1906 was exceeded in Riga. On April 18, 1906, the air temperature in Riga reached plus 20.6 degrees, and on April 18, 2000, the air temperature in Riga reached plus 21 degrees.
In 1999, President Guntis Ulmanis paid a state visit to Iceland.
In 1999, the Latvian delegation led by the Minister of Special Tasks for Cooperation with International Financial Institutions, Robert Zīles, attended the plenary meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London.
In 1998, the official founding meeting of the Latvian National Library Support Fund was held.
In 1998, the Latvian Women’s Party was founded.
In 1998, the world-famous Spanish tenor José Carreras gave a solo concert at the Latvian National Opera.
In 1920, elections to the Constituent Assembly take place.
Events in the world
In 2007, Islamic radical militants killed nearly 200 people and injured more than 150 in a car bomb attack in Baghdad.
In 2006, the presidents of Honduras and El Salvador shook hands on the border of the two countries, officially ending the border conflict that began in 1969 as a “soccer war”.
In 2004, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, the founder of the modern state of Fiji, died at the age of 83.
In 2002, the former king Mohammad Zahir Shah returns to Afghanistan after 29 years of exile.
In 1999, Canadian Wayne Gretzky ends his brilliant National Hockey League (NHL) career.
In 1996, more than a hundred Lebanese refugees are killed when Israeli artillery shells hit a crowded UN peacekeeping base.
In 1996, armed militants kill 17 Greek tourists and an Egyptian guide in Cairo.
In 1992, General Abdul Rashid Dostum rebelled against Afghan President Mohammad Najibullah and joined the forces of Ahmed Shah Masud to capture the capital, Kabul.
In 1988, the United States launched the “Praying Mantis” military operation against the Iranian navy in the Persian Gulf, conducting the largest naval battle in the world since World War II.
Born in Ukraine in 1988, Ivan Demjanjuk, a pensioner from the US auto industry, is found guilty of war crimes in an Israeli court. Three teenagers decided he was a guard at the Treblinka death camp in Poland during World War II, nicknamed “Ivan the Cruel.”
In 1983, 63 people were killed in a suicide bombing at the US embassy in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon.
In 1980, the former British colony of Rhodesia became the independent country of Zimbabwe.
In 1968, the London Bridge is sold for a million pounds to the American Robert McCallagh, who later installs it in the state of Arizona.
In 1955, the German-born scientist and mathematician Albert Einstein died, who formulated the theory of relativity and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.
In 1946, the League of Nations ended its existence, and its functions and assets were taken over by the United Nations.
In 1934, the first self-service laundromat opens in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
In 1915, during the First World War, French pilot Roland Garros’s plane is shot down and he has to land on the German-controlled side of the front line.
In 1906, the US city of San Francisco was shaken by a strong earthquake, after which a series of fires broke out, destroying the city and causing the death of about a thousand people. More than 200,000 people lose their shelter.
In 1880, a strong tornado in the US state of Missouri kills 99 people.
In 1506, the foundation stone of today’s St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican is laid.
In 1025, Boleslaw I became the first king of Poland.
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