HOLIDAYS:
Bulgaria – Unification Day.
SIGNS:
Eutyches. If it rains, there will be a dry autumn and a good harvest for next year.
BORN:
1766 John DALTON, an English physicist, was the first to describe a visual defect called “color blindness”, which he himself suffered from. The son of a weaver, went to school only at the age of 12.
1876 John James Riccard Macleod, English physiologist who discovered insulin.
1896 Pyotr Semyonovich ISAEV, orderly V.I. CHAPAEV, the hero of numerous anecdotes. His countrymen indignantly refute that Petka had an affair with the machine gunner Anka. Petka, according to them, “was an exemplary decent family man, he loved his wife and children, whom he gave birth to many.”
1940 Juozas Stanislavas BUDRAYTIS, Lithuanian actor. He was expelled from the 9th grade of the school for hooliganism.
1944 Roger Waters, English bassist and composer. Created and destroyed the Pink Floyd group.
1971 Dolores Mary Eileen O’RYODAN, lead singer of the Irish band The Cranberries. She died in 2018. She has three children.
1973 Yuri Vasilyevich SHATUNOV, Russian pop singer, ex-soloist of the Laskovy May group. Shatunov – mother’s surname, his own father refused to give Yura his surname – KLIMENKO. Yuri died on June 23, 2022.
1984 Helena JUNSON-EKHOLM, Swedish biathlete. She has two children.
1986 Inna Ivanovna ZHUKOVA, Belarusian gymnast.
EVENTS:
1819 Thomas Blanchard patented the lathe.
1936 The honorary title “People’s Artist of the USSR” was established. The first to receive it were 13 people, among them K.S. STANISLAVSKY, V.I. NEMIROVICH-DANCHENKO, V.I. KACHALOV, I.M. MOSKVIN. One of the last in 1991 was A.B. PUGACHEVA and O.I. YANKOVSKY.
1941 The Pravda newspaper for the first time called the partisans “people’s avengers”.
1948 Died the largest horse on Earth – Brooklyn Supreme, weighing 1400 kg and having a height of more than 2 meters.
1975 Tennis player Martina NAVRATILOVA (Czechoslovakia) asked for political asylum in the United States.
1987 In Baltimore (USA), for the first time in the world, Siamese twins were surgically separated.
1989 Due to a computer error, 41,000 Parisians received letters accusing them of murder, extortion and organizing prostitution instead of violating traffic rules.
1991 Leningrad was returned to its historical name – St. Petersburg.
1997 Funeral of British Princess Diana. The broadcast was watched by a record number of viewers – 2.5 billion people.
2002 The Belarusian Republican Union of Youth – BRSM was created.
2018 Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor, has died.
