Jubilees in Latvia
In 1990, Guido Kaus – hockey player.
In 1983, Kristaps Janičenoks – basketball player.
In 1977, Ivars Ciaguns – mountain skier.
In 1977, Vadim Fyodorov – football player.
In 1975, Jānis Apeinis – baritone.
In 1970, Jānis Bergs – businessman.
In 1969, Normunds Dreģis – conductor of the Latvian National Opera Orchestra.
In 1968, Roberts Kīlis – social anthropologist, lecturer and politician, former Minister of Education and Science (died in 2022).
In 1956, Ivars Mailītis – artist, scenographer.
In 1956, Alla Berezovska – journalist.
In 1956, Gunārs Dāboliņš – former head of the Latvian State Border Guard, retired border guard general.
In 1954, Jānis Lovniks – diplomat, was Latvian ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, co-chairman of the Latvian-Russian common border demarcation commission (died on January 6, 2009).
Jubilees in the world
In 1986, Jamie Bell – British actor.
In 1983, Taylor Hanson – an American musician (“Hanson”).
In 1979, Nicolas Anelka – French football player, 2000 European champion.
In 1978, Peter van den Hogenband – a Dutch swimmer.
In 1958, Prince Albert of Monaco.
In 1947, Billy Kristel – American actor and comedian.
In 1945, Walter Parazeider – an American musician, one of the founders of the jazz rock group “Chicago”.
In 1941, Wolfgang Petersen – German film director, producer and screenwriter.
In 1933, Quincy Jones – American musician and composer.
In 1933, Michael Caine – British actor, real name Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, winner of two “Oscar” awards.
In 1928, Frank Borman – American cosmonaut.
In 1923, Diane Arbus – an American photographer (died in 1971).
In 1899, Kenneth Colin Irving – Canadian industrialist (died in 1992).
In 1898, Arnolds Chikobava – Georgian linguist (died in 1985).
In 1879, Albert Einstein – German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1955).
In 1854, Paul Ehrlich – German scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1915).
In 1853, Ferdinand Hodler – Swedish painter (died in 1918).
In 1844, Umberto I – King of Italy (died in 1900).
In 1835, Giovanni Schiaparelli – Italian inventor (died in 1910).
In 1823, Theodore de Banville – French poet and writer (died in 1891).
In 1804, Johann Strauss – Austrian composer (died in 1849).
In 1681, Georg Philipp Telemann – German composer (died in 1767).
Events in Latvia
In 2007, the mayor of Ventspils, Aivaras Lembergs, was arrested on Kuldīgas road, who was brought to the Riga city center district court, which, at the request of the prosecutor’s office, placed the mayor of Ventspils under arrest as a security measure.
In 2006, the government confirmed the former head of the Traffic Bureau, Guido Janevičas, as the director of the Electronic Procurement (E-procurement) Agency.
In 2006, State President Vaira Vīke-Freiberga accepts letters of accreditation from Iceland’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Latvia Hannes Heimisson, El Salvador’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Latvia Martina Alberto Riveras-Gomes and Kuwait’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Latvia Abdulhamid Abdallāh al-Awadi.
In 2006, the British Chamber of Commerce celebrates its ten-year anniversary of operation in Latvia.
In 2006, the Riga Regional Court announced a verdict in a criminal case regarding large-scale counterfeiting of money in the RZM printing house. A court sentences four men to severe prison terms and confiscation of property for defrauding the accused men of more than $600,000. In July 2004, 700,000 counterfeit US dollars, 26,000 counterfeit euros, banknote printing clichés, stamps and other items used in counterfeiting were found in the RZM printing house. While investigating the criminal case, at the beginning of August 2004, the Security Police also found a capsule with a dangerous chemical substance and listening devices. According to the law enforcement officers, the findings lead to the conclusion that, in addition to printing counterfeit money, the arrested men also engaged in other illegal activities and were probably connected to a criminal group.
In 2005, representatives of Riga and Tartu municipalities signed a declaration of cooperation, which envisages cooperation between the two cities in economy, trade, education, culture and tourism. The goal is to exchange experience and information in various areas of life, to prepare and successfully implement cooperation projects, as well as to involve residents in the city administration.
In 2003, the Association of Regional Universities of Latvia was established in Liepāja, where five regional universities united in order to develop targeted planning for the development of universities and realize their interests in the government. Liepāja Academy of Pedagogy, Vidzeme University, Daugavpils University, Valmiera University and Rēzekne University will work in the association.
In 2002, the Saeima adopted the law “On the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Latvia and the Government of the United States of America on Cooperation in the Field of Preventing the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction” in its final reading, which provides for the possibility of receiving material aid from the United States, mainly for the structures of the Ministry of the Interior.
In 2002, the Prime Ministers of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia Andris Bērziņš, Alģirds Brazauskas and Sims Kallas meet with the Prime Minister of Great Britain Tony Blair in London, the main focus of the talks being on the expansion processes of the European Union and NATO and relations with Russia.
In 2002, a meeting between the Minister of Culture of Latvia, Karinas Pētersones, and the Minister of Culture of Russia, Mihailas Švidkojas, takes place in Moscow. At the end of the conversation, the Latvian and Russian ministries of culture signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of culture.
In 2001, the general director of the state real estate agency, Kalvis Bricis, and the state secretary of the Ministry of Justice, Aivars Maldups, signed a contract for the reconstruction of the courthouse in Riga, Abrenes street 3.
In 2001, State President Vaira Vīke-Freiberga visited Lithuania on a state visit.
In 2000, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, Vartans Oskanians, stayed in Latvia on a working visit.
In 1998, Minister of Defense Tālavs Jundzis issues an order in which the officers and instructors of the National Armed Forces are ordered not to participate in the events of the legionnaires on March 16.
In 1998, the founding congress of the New Party was held. Raimonds Pauls is unanimously elected as the chairman of the party, the board of the party consisting of 18 people is confirmed, which includes Vita Kotāne, Ainārs Šlesers, Ints Kalniņš, Āris Auders, Ingrīda Łudre and others.
In 1996, the district court of Hamburg began to consider the case against the chairman of the people’s movement “Latvijai” Joachim Zigerista. He is accused of inciting hatred against a part of the population, distributing material that incites racial hatred, as well as uttering insults.
In 1995, Prime Minister Māris Gailis dismisses the board of state AS “Latvenergo” and dismisses Gunāras Koemec from the post of president of “Latvenergo”. On April 26, Edgars Birkāns takes this position.
In 1994, a delegation of Latvian officials led by Prime Minister Valdas Birkavas visited the Netherlands.
In 1944, the Gestapo arrested Gustavus Celmiņas for publishing the illegal newspaper “Brīvā Latvija. Latvju raksti”.
In 1927, Jānis Čakste, the first President of Latvia, died.
Events in the world
In 2016, within the framework of the European and Russian joint Mars mission, the “Proton” rocket is launched with an orbital probe for the study of atmospheric traces of methane gas.
In 2006, at the age of 86, Lennarts Meri, who was the first president of Estonia since independence in 1991, died. Meri helped Estonia break away from the USSR and join the European Union and NATO.
In 2005, China passed a law giving it the right to attack Taiwan if the island took steps toward formal independence.
In 2005, after the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, about a million Lebanese took to the streets of Beirut to protest the Syrian military presence in the country and the government’s policies.
In 2004, the people of Spain turned away from the center-right government of Prime Minister José María Asnar in an election that took place under the influence of a bomb attack in Madrid a few days earlier.
In 2004, Vladimir Putin is elected for a second term as President of Russia.
In 2002, 125 cars collided in a grand car accident on Interstate 75 near the town of Ringold in the US state of Georgia.
In 1994, the base version of the Linux operating system, Linux kernel 1.0.0, is released.
In 1991, six people who were falsely convicted in 1974 for killing 21 people in terrorist acts organized by the Irish Republican Army in two pubs in Birmingham are released from prison in London. The so-called Birmingham Six spent a total of 96 years in prison.
In 1984, Gary Adams, the head of the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, Sinn Fein, was seriously injured in an assassination attempt near the center of Belfast.
In 1980, a passenger plane crashed near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-member American boxing team.
In 1979, a Hawker-Siddeley Trident passenger plane crashed into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200 people.
In 1978, the Israeli army invades and occupies southern Lebanon.
In 1964, Jack Ruby is found guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspect in the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy.
In 1953, the communist president of Czechoslovakia, Klement Gottwald, dies.
In 1951, during the Korean War, UN forces occupy Seoul for the second time.
In 1945, during the Second World War, the British aviation dropped the heaviest bomb used in the war “Grand Slam” on the Bielefeld railway viaduct in Germany. The bomb weighed about 9,070 kilograms.
In 1943, the Nazis completed the “liquidation” of the Krakow ghetto during the Second World War. 8,000 Jews who were found able to work were sent to the Plaszow labor camp. About 2,000 Jews deemed unable to work were shot in the streets of the ghetto. The few remaining inhabitants of the ghetto were sent to die in Auschwitz.
In 1939, Nazi German troops occupied the Czechoslovak provinces of Bohemia and Moravia.
In 1938, the prominent Bolshevik Nikolai Bukharin, who was found guilty of anti-revolutionary activities and espionage in one of the most famous model trials of the Soviet court of the 1930s, was executed.
In 1932, American photo pioneer George Eastman, who founded the Kodak company, committed suicide.
In 1647, during the Thirty Years’ War, Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden signed the Ulm Peace Treaty.
In 1492, Queen Isabella of Castile orders the kingdom’s 150,000 Jews to convert to Christianity or be deported.
In 1489, the queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, was forced to hand over her kingdom to the control of Venice.
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