April 19th. Events and people | The reason | free time

LAWS:

Snowdrop Day (The Latin name for the snowdrop is “Galanthus” – “milk flower”).

Indications:

Eutyches. A quiet day means an early spring harvest, a wind means a poor harvest.

DONE:

1487 Michael STIEFFEL, German mathematician. Functional notations were introduced into arithmetic.

1911 Georgy Mokeevich MARKOV, Soviet writer.

1966 Valery Viktorovich KAMENSKY, Russian hockey player.

1967 Roma (Roman Vladimirovich) ZHUKOV, Russian singer. He now has five children. And the 5-year-old girl Elizaveta-Victoria died in June 2012 after falling under an ordinary garden swing in Moscow.

1978 Natalya Andreevna EPRIKYAN, Russian KVN player and actress. Married, her height is 152 cm.

1985 Maria Vladimirovna MASHKOVA, Russian actress.

1987 Joe (Charles Joseph John) HART, English football goalkeeper.

1987 Oksana Aleksandrovna AKINSHINA, Russian actress. She has three children.

1987 Maria Yurievna SHARAPOVA, Russian tennis player, height 188 cm, weight 59 kg, foot size 43. She was born in the Siberian town of Nyagan, where her parents moved from Gomel to escape ​​the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant . Sharapova is the loudest tennis player of all time – the intensity of the sound of her screams on the court was 105 dB, which is equal to the sound of a jet engine. This record was set in 2009. Sharapova’s net worth exceeds $250 million In March 2016, the banned drug meldonium was found in her doping test. She ended her career in 2020. Maria has a son, Theodore, born in 2022. from British millionaire Alexander GILKS.

EVENTS:

1563 The printing house of the pioneer printers Ivan FYODOROV and Pyotr MSTISLAVTS began to work in Moscow, and the printing of the first Russian dated book “Apostle” began.

1906 In a street accident in Paris, the radioactive discoverer, Pierre CURIE, died under the wheels of a horse-drawn carriage. From Curie’s diary: “Yesterday, completely by accident, some woman (who looked like a real gypsy) predicted my death from the carriage. Of course, I couldn’t believe this; my mind does not allow me to believe in such an absurdity.”

1934 Kenneth WILSON, a surgeon from London, took the most famous picture of the legendary Nessie (Loch Ness monster). The photo was circulated in newspapers and magazines around the world and caused quite a stir. And just 60 years later, Wilson’s grandson admitted that his grandfather’s photo was fake.

1935 The voluntary sports association “Spartak” was founded in Moscow. The name was suggested by Nikolai Petrovich STAROSTIN.

1943 Uprising of the prisoners of the Warsaw ghetto. On this day, by order of Heinrich HIMMLER, the SS, supported by army units, tanks and artillery, was to clear the ghetto, sending its inhabitants to death camps. However, without expecting resistance, the Nazis were forced to retreat. The rebels were armed only with pistols, shotguns, one machine gun and homemade bombs. The next day, poison gas and flamethrowers were used against the ghetto prisoners, and the fighting continued for four weeks. On May 16, after the ghetto defenders ran out of ammunition, the resistance was broken. Most of the ghetto’s 56,000 inhabitants died, the rest were sent to concentration camps. The Nazis lost hundreds of soldiers and officers in the battles.

1970 In the USSR, the first VAZ-2101 car, the legendary “kopek”, rolled off the assembly line in Togliatti. The prototype of the “kopek” was the “FIAT-124”, it was produced until 1984 (in total, 2.5 million cars of this model were produced).

1971 The USSR launched the world’s first orbital station, Salyut.

1987 The biggest bonfire in the world (28 meters high) was lit in the Netherlands.

2023 During the distribution of humanitarian aid in Sana’a (Yemen), a stampede occurred, as a result of which at least 85 people were killed and more than 320 were injured.