HOLIDAYS:
Belarus – National Unity Day (celebrated from 2021).
Belarus – Forest Workers Day.
World Patient Safety Day.
World Bone Marrow Donor Day.
USA – Constitution and Citizenship Day.
SIGNS:
Burning bush. They began to dig up onions from the ridges. The Burning Bush is considered a guardian against fires and lightning. They ordered prayers to save houses from fire and people from illness.
BORN:
1832 Sergei Petrovich BOTKIN, famous Russian doctor. Botkin created a new direction in medicine called nervism. He believed that the body should be perceived as a single whole, inextricably linked with the environment, and believed that the disease recedes from the very moment the bed linen is changed to fresh ones. His son was the personal physician of the Russian royal family and was shot along with them.
1857 Konstantin Eduardovich TSIOLKOVSKY, founder of modern cosmonautics. Born into the family of a forester. After suffering from scarlet fever in childhood, I almost completely lost my hearing. A crater on the Moon is named after him.
1916 Yumzhagiin TSEDENBAL, communist leader of Mongolia (1940-84). He was married to a Russian woman.
1939 Vladimir Valentinovich MENSHOV, Russian actor and director. Died 2021
1944 Reinhold MESSNER, Austrian mountaineer who conquered all the eight-thousanders in the world.
1968 ANASTACIA (Anastacia Lyn NEWKIRK), American singer.
1985 Alexander Mikhailovich OVECHKIN, Russian hockey player. Height 190 cm, weight 100 kg. He plays in the NHL under number 8, just like his mother, a famous basketball player. One of the richest athletes in the world. He is married to model Nastasya SHUBSKAYA (daughter of actress Vera GLAGOLEVA), they have sons Sergei and Ilya.
1983 BIANKA (nee Yana Eduardovna LIPNITSKAYA), Russian singer. Born in Minsk. Divorced.
EVENTS:
1787 The US Constitution was adopted, according to which the union of individual states was transformed into a federation.
1910 In London, doctors suggested that if the number of sleepwalkers increases at the same rate as before, then in 40 years the number of insane people will outnumber the sane ones.
1922 The world’s first public screening of a sound film took place in Berlin.
1934 The first 33 1/3 rpm record was released (with Beethoven’s 5th symphony).
1983 Vanessa WILLIAMS became the first black Miss America.
1991 The last title of Hero of the Soviet Union (Gold Star No. 12772) was posthumously awarded to Lieutenant of the Internal Troops of the Russian Federation Oleg BABAK for courage and heroism in protecting the population in Nagorno-Karabakh.
2022 Igor MASLENNIKOV, Russian director, has died.
2022 The capital of Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan, was renamed back to Astana.
