HOLIDAYS:
International night of bats.
Abkhazia – Independence Day.
South Ossetia – Independence Day.
SIGNS:
Tikhon Passionate. A prayer is addressed to him for deliverance from the sin of despondency. The winds blow quietly – to the bucket, and the storm sweeps – to be a rainy September.
BORN:
1451 Christopher Columbus, Spanish navigator, discoverer of America. He was given three ships with a crew recruited from convicts. On October 12, 1492, a sailor of one of the ships saw land ahead. This was America. According to some reports, Columbus had a map of such accuracy that it could only be created by photographing the Earth from space. The map was drawn up when Antarctica and the Arctic were still fertile lands. He died in poverty and disgrace.
1743 Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, French scientist, founder of modern chemistry.
1880 Guillaume Apollinaire (Wilhelm Albert Vladimir Alexander Apollinaris VONZH-KOSTROVITSKY), French poet. Born into the family of a Polish aristocrat and an Italian officer. Died of the flu. The poet’s pseudonym is a French version of two Polish names: Wilhelm and Apollinaris.
1914 Julio CORTASAR, Argentine writer.
1947 Yan Meerovich ARLAZOROV, Russian pop actor. He died in 2009. Some sources claim that Arlazorov’s real name was Ivan Trofimovich ONISCHENKO.
1957 Dr. ALBAN (Alban NWAPA), Swedish musician born in Nigeria.
1967 Oleg Nikolaevich TAKTAROV, Russian-American actor, world sambo champion.
1976 ZEMFIRA (Zemfira Talgatovna RAMAZANOVA), Russian singer, was born in a Bashkir-Tatar family of a doctor and history teacher. Her elder brother Ramil was killed while spearfishing. Was fond of basketball. Single. In 2015, to the question of TV presenter Vladimir POZNERA about the words that Zemfira would say to God when they met, the singer replied: “That he is unfair.”
1980 Macaulay Carson Culkin, the youngest ever American actor millionaire (“Home Alone”). He first appeared on stage when he was four years old, and at the age of six he was already starring in commercials. Now he works as a DJ in a nightclub.
EVENTS:
1728 Vitus Bering discovered the strait between Asia and America, called the Bering Strait.
1770 In the “Proceedings” of the Free Economic Society “the first scientific article on the topic of potatoes” Notes on the potato” appeared. The very name potato was introduced into Russian speech by the agronomist A.G. BOLOTOV, who was the first in Russia to start growing this crop in the garden (and not in the flower beds), thereby laying the foundation for the mass distribution of the “second bread”.
1791 American John Fitch received a patent for the steamboat he invented, demonstrated four years earlier. In the same year he received a patent in France. Unable to prove the economic benefits of building ships with a steam engine, Fitch died in 1798, and the glory went to the Englishman Robert FULTON, who achieved success only 20 years after Fitch.
1925 Charles Henri of the Sorbonne University, said that the X-rays showed signs of the existence of a soul in man.
[1945 On the basis of the car assembly plant, the construction of the Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ) began.
1946 Norma Jean BAKER has signed with XX Century Fox. From now on, she began to be called Marilyn MONROE (Monroe was her mother’s maiden name, and the name was taken from the famous dancer Marilyn MILLER).
1956 In Iran, as a result of a sudden release, an oil gusher reached a record height of 52 meters.
1982 Anna HERMAN, the famous Polish singer, died of cancer at the age of 46.
2004 In Belarus, a consolidated guard of honor company was created.
2021 Explosion at a military ammunition depot in Kazakhstan, 13 dead.
CITY DAYS:
Glory – 1038 years.
