LAWS:
World Beard Day.
World War I Toy Destruction Day.
International Clean Air Day for blue skies.
Brazil – Independence Day.
MARKS.
Titus and Bartholomew. Saint Titus grows the last mushroom. A large harvest of mushrooms during the summer foreshadows a long winter.
DONE:
1870 Alexander Ivanovich KUPRIN, Russian writer.
1894 Gala DALI (nee Elena Dmitrievna DYAKONOVA), the Russian wife of the French poet Paul ELUARD, then the wife of the painter Salvador DALI.
1899 Isabella Danilovna YURIEVA, Soviet singer, queen of “cruel” romance. According to the passport, she was born in 1902.
1911 Todor Zhivkov, former leader of Bulgaria. Zhivkov is remembered for putting forward the idea of Bulgaria joining the USSR as the sixteenth republic at one of his party congresses. It seems that this was so unexpected even for the leadership of the Soviets that they did not accept this proposal.
1912 David PACKARD, an American engineer, one of the founders of the Hewlett-Packard company (the capital of the company was $538).
1936 Buddy HOLLY (born Charles HARDIN), rock pioneer. Died in a plane crash. He won his first five dollars at the age of 5, participating in a contest as the Morning Star.
1955 Oleg Stepanovich SHTEFANKO, Russian actor. He has two children.
1959 Ivan Igorevich ZATEVAKHIN, Russian TV presenter (“Conversations about animals”, “Conversations about fishing”). There is a black belt in karate.
1985 Alena LANSKAYA (nee Elena Mikhailovna LEPOKHINA), Belarusian singer and TV presenter. Unmarried.
2000 Ariarne Elizabeth TITMUS, Australian swimmer.
EVENTS:
1812 The Battle of Borodino took place during the Patriotic War of 1812 between Russian and French troops in the area of the town of Borodino (125 km from Moscow). Napoleon’s loss: more than 58 thousand people, incl. 47 general. From Russia: 44 thousand people were killed and wounded, incl. 23 general.
1813 For the first time, the phrase “Uncle Sam” was associated with the United States government. During the Second Anglo-American War, Samuel WILSON of Troy, New York, supplied meat to the American army. The meat was served in barrels on which the capital letters SA (United States) were stencilled. The Irish watchman believed that this writing meant the name of the supplier and read it as “Uncle Sam Wilson”, i.e. “Uncle Sam Wilson” It can hardly be said that this idea came to the person -watch on this very day, but on September 15, 1961, the US Congress passed a resolution to consider Uncle Sam Wilson as the originator of America’s national symbol, Uncle Sam.
1923 The International Criminal Police Commission – Interpol – was founded in Vienna. Belarus became a member of Interpol in 1993.
1936 The world’s last marsupial wolf has died in Tasmania.
1951 The Canada Post Service said that all mailers must mark the street name and house number on the envelope (previously, many only marked the city and the last name of the addressee).
1992 The newspaper Kommersant was the first to use the term “new Russians”
1998 The birthday of the Google search engine.
2011 A Yak-42 plane carrying the local hockey team “Lokomotiv”, on its way to a match in Minsk, crashed near Yaroslavl. 44 people died, including the famous Belarusian hockey player Ruslan SALEI. Only the flight engineer Alexander SIZOV survived.
2021 Boris KRASNOV, Russian stage designer, has died aged 60.
City Days:
Lepel – 585 years.
