HOLIDAYS:
International Cake Day.
International Chess Day (since 1966 the name of the game comes from the Persian language: “checkmate” – the ruler is dead).
Colombia – Independence Day.
SIGNS:
Foma Blueberry. Blueberries ripen, If it starts to rain, it will last a long time.
BORN:
1304 Francesco Petrarca, Italian poet. Born in the family of a notary.
1804 Richard OWEN, English zoologist, sir. Coined the word “dinosaur”.
1940 David Fyodorovich Tukhmanov, Russian composer. Married with a second marriage to a German citizen.
1941 Lyudmila Alekseevna Chursina, Russian actress. She was married to the son of the former leader of the USSR Yu.V. ANDROPOVA Igor.
1947 Carlos (Augusto Alves) SANTANA, famous Mexican musician.
1963 Alexander Vyacheslavovich ZHULIN, Russian figure skater and coach.
1968 Robert Rodriguez, American director His parents had ten children.
1973 Haakon MAGNUS, Crown Prince of Norway. He runs excellent skis, drives a yacht, is fond of hang gliding. Avid theatergoer. Serves in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1979 Igor Viktorovich MAKAROV, Belarusian judoka.
1980 Gisele Caroline Bündchen, Brazilian supermodel. Height 180 cm, weight 60 kg, 86-61-86 cm. The richest supermodel in the world – her fortune is more than $ 200 million. She has two children.
1982 Boris Vyacheslavovich KORCHEVNIKOV, Russian TV presenter (“The Fate of a Man”). At the age of 3, he became deaf in one ear due to meningitis. Only at the age of 13 did he first see his father. Korchevnikov was banned from entering Ukraine.
EVENTS:
1534 The world’s first publishing house was established in Cambridge.
1917 The BMW trademark was registered. The BMW logo is actually nothing more than a rotating airplane propeller.
1924 The International Chess Federation (FIDE) was founded in Paris.
1940 The American Billboard magazine published the world’s first hit parade of gramophone records. Similar lists have already been published in the magazine before, but the data presented in them was given by manufacturing companies and reflected the popularity of records produced only by them. Now all the data was brought together and gave an objective picture of the sales of gramophone records of one or another artist. The first chart was topped by the song “I’ll Never Smile Again” (I-ll Never Smile Again), recorded by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra with Frank SINATRA and the Pied Pipers vocal group.
1941 An inscription appeared on the bricks of the Brest Fortress: “I’m dying, but I don’t give up!”.
1944 Failed assassination attempt on HITLER at his headquarters in Rastenburg. The Fuhrer was saved from the explosion by an oak table. Count Claus von STAUFFENBERG, who planted the bomb, would shoot himself the same evening. In the next few months, 5,000 people were executed for participating in the conspiracy. About this event in 2009, the film “Operation Valkyrie” was shot with Tom Cruise in the role of the count.
1969 The American spacecraft Apollo 11 made the first ever landing on the moon.
1973 Famous actor Bruce Lee died of cerebral edema at the age of 33. An autopsy revealed that the swelling was caused by a hypersensitivity reaction to a headache pill. After his death, rumors began to circulate that Lee died in the bed of his mistress, but they were not confirmed.
2020 Died Victor CHIZHIKOV, Russian artist, author of the Olympic Bear. By the way, Chizhikov was color blind.
2020 Alexander BELYAEV, Russian geographer, weather forecaster on the NTV channel, has died.
