HOLIDAYS:
Belgium – national day.
SIGNS:
Procopius the Reaper, Zazhinki. On this day, the first “zazhin” of rye was made in old age. Eggs, bread, salt had to be taken with them for snacks. We started picking cherries.
BORN:
356 BC Alexander the MACEDONIAN, commander, founder of the largest ancient state.
1814 John GOODALL, legendary American cowboy. Invented the sheriff’s star.
1899 Ernest Miller HEMINGWAY, American writer. His aphorism: “Do not judge a man only by his friends. Remember that Judas’ friends were impeccable.” In 1961, he committed suicide by shooting himself in the forehead with a double-barreled hunting rifle and leaving no suicide note.
1929 Vija (Alida) ARTMANE, Latvian actress.
1948 Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov, Russian satirist writer. Age in 2017 brain cancer
1951 Robin Williams, American actor He committed suicide in 2014. His father was one of the leaders of the Ford concern.
1969 Abraham RUSSO (Abraham Zhanovich IPJYAN), Russian singer of Armenian origin. Born in Syria. Now lives in the USA. He has two daughters.
1971 Nonna Valentinovna GRISHAEVA, Russian actress. Husband – actor Alexander NESTEROV, son Ilya. Nonna has a daughter from her first marriage.
1977 Ilya Anatolyevich NOSKOV, Russian actor. He collects suitcases.
1982 MIGUEL (Sergey Migelevich SHESTEPYOROV), Russian dancer and choreographer (TV project “Dances”). His father is Cuban, the son met his father only in 2014.
2002 Rika KIHIRA, Japanese figure skater.
EVENTS:
356 BC e. Ephesian Greek HEROSTRAT, in order to immortalize his name, burned one of the seven wonders of the world – the temple of Artemis of Ephesus. Herostratus confessed under torture, so some historians doubt that the arson was the work of his hands.
1873 The Jesse JAMES Gang carried out the world’s first train robbery, capturing $6,000 in booty.
1960 Sirimavo BANDARANAIKE became the world’s first female Prime Minister (in Sri Lanka).
1969 At 3:56 CET, American Neil Armstrong was the first human to walk on the surface of the moon. Edwin ALDRIN followed him out. The third member of the Apollo 11 crew, Michael COLLINS, was on board the ship. The television broadcast of the epochal event in the history of mankind was carried out in almost all countries of the world, except for the USSR and China.
1975-1976 In the US, two brothers died 1 year apart on the same street, hit by the same car, by the same driver carrying the same passenger.
1984 The American author of the theory of the beneficial effects of jogging on health, 52-year-old James FIX, died of a heart attack while jogging.
1992 In Moscow, Armenian Robert GALSTYAN with his teeth stretched two wagons with a total weight of 199 tons over a distance of seven meters (a world record).
2011 Cardinal Casimir SVENTEK, Metropolitan of Minsk and Mogilev, has died.
