SIGNS:
Prokop the Road Destroyer. On this day you cannot leave the house without putting your ear to the ground. You must first make sure whether the snow road is reliable.
BORN:
1831 Clement STUDEBAKER, American industrialist, founder of the company of the same name.
1832 Charles Cunningham BOYCOTT, a retired British army captain who had been remarkably unsuccessful in managing his estate in Ireland. When the harvest failed in 1880, he demanded that the tenants of his land immediately pay rent or part with their property. The farmers responded by rallying and stopping work on his estate. Boycott’s family found themselves completely isolated from their neighbors and fell into poverty. The name of the unsuccessful captain became a household name, and the word “boycott” entered not only the English language.
1881 Mustafa Kemal ATATÜRK, founder and first president of the Turkish Republic. He received the surname Ataturk (“Father of the Turks”) in 1934 from the Grand National Assembly of the country.
1937 Zurab Lavrentievich SOTKILAVA, Soviet singer – tenor. Died 2017
1946 Liza MINNELLI, American actress and singer. She made her film debut at the age of 2.
1953 Irina Vitalievna PONAROVSKAYA, Russian singer. In 1996, representatives of the Chanel Fashion House awarded her the title “Miss Chanel USSR.” She knows about furs and diamonds: the Americans invited her to work as an expert at a jewelry factory, but she would have to change her life dramatically.
1961 Sergei Andreevich SELIN, Russian actor. During his school years he was registered with the police. Married for the second time, his wife Anna is 24 years younger than him.
1972 Egor Vladislavovich DRUZHININ, Russian actor, choreographer and TV presenter. He has three children.
1981 Alexey Yurievich CHUMAKOV, Russian singer and TV presenter. In his surname, the emphasis is correctly placed on the second syllable. Born in Uzbekistan into a Bulgarian-Armenian family. Husband of singer and TV presenter Yulia KOVALCHUK, they have daughters Amelia (born 2017) and Alicia (born 2023).
1990 Dawid Grzegorz KUBACKI, Polish ski jumper.
1988 Marina Viktorovna LITVINCHUK (nee POLTORAN), Belarusian rower and kayaker.
EVENTS:
1832 Italian ballerina Maria TAglioni was the first in the world to dance in a ballet tutu (a fluffy, multi-layered ballet skirt). This happened at the premiere of Jean SCHNEITZHOFFER’s ballet La Sylphide.
1910 The England football team beat France 20:0 (striker DAY scored 11 goals).
1911 Dr. FLETCHER of the Rockefeller Institute discovered the causes of cerebral palsy.
1940 The Soviet-Finnish war ended. According to the peace treaty signed in Moscow, the border was moved 150 km from Leningrad, the naval base on the Hanko Peninsula was transferred to the USSR for 30 years.
2011 An explosion occurred at the Japanese Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant as a result of an earthquake. The radiation level exceeded the norm by 20 times.
2018 Oleg TABAKOV, Russian actor and director, has died.
