September 20. Kazinform's timeline of major events
Kazinform's Timeline is the one-stop shop where you can learn about historical events for 23rd of August. See what notable events happened throughout Kazakhstan's history on September 20.
EVENTS
1913 – The first Kazakh football teams SSK, Olymp, Lastochka, Orlyata, and Yarysh are created in Semipalatinsk.
2002 – Kazakhstan establishes the post of the Human Rights Commissioner.
2010 – Kazakhstan’s tennis team is qualified for the first time for the Davis Cup Finals.
2016 – Kazakh violinist Yerzhan Kulibayev enters the top three winners in the final concert of the international festival George Enescu after performing Tchaikovsky’s Opera 36 in D major at the Romanian Athenaeum
2016 – For the first time the Kazakhstani military observer in the UN Mission in West Sahara (MINURSO) Lieutenant-Colonel Askar Kozhagaliyev is assigned as the commander of the UN military base in Ausard camp.
2018 – The large-scale project Focus – Kazakhstan is presented for the first time in the country’s history in the global art scene in London.
2019 – The Hungarian capital of Budapest holds the ceremony of opening the Turkic-speaking States Cooperation Council office.
2022 – President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev addresses the General Debates at the 77th session of the UN General Assembly in New York.
