HOLIDAYS:
International Boxing Day.
Belarus – Miner’s Day.
Moldova – independence Day.
Russia – Day of Russian cinema.
SIGNS:
Mikhey Tikhovey. If cranes fly to Micah, wait for frosts in mid-September, if not, wait for late winter.
BORN:
1770 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher, creator of dialectics. The author of the phrase: “If the facts contradict my theory, so much the worse for the facts.”
1812 Natalia Nikolaevna GONCHAROVA, wife of A.S. PUSHKIN.
1836 Pyotr Dmitrievich BOBORYKIN, Russian writer. Introduced the word “intellectual” into the Russian language.
1896 Faina Georgievna (Girshevna) RANEVSKAYA (nee FELDMAN), famous Russian actress. Her pseudonym is the surname of a Chekhov heroine. She said about herself: “All her life she swam in the toilet with a butterfly style.” The English encyclopedia “Who’s Who” included her in the top ten most outstanding actresses of the twentieth century.
1910 Mother TERESA (in the world – Agnes Gonja BOYADZIU), Albanian, nun, missionary, founder and abbess of the Catholic Order of Mercy. In October 2003, she was beatified (blessed) by the Catholic Church. She said: “The good that you have done today, people will forget tomorrow. Do good anyway.”
1941 Yuri Gavrilovich GORNY, Russian hypnotist.
1941 Cesaria Evora, singer from the Cape Verde Islands.
1941 Bogdan Silvestrovich STUPKA, Ukrainian actor.
1970 Peter EBDON, English snooker player.
1972 Jimmy Pop (James Moyer FRANKS), American musician, leader of the Bloodhound Gang
1973 Marina Gavrilovna Fedunkiv, Russian actress. Married with a third marriage to an Italian, no children.
1976 ALESYA (nee Olga Anatolyevna YARMOLENKO), Belarusian singer. She has a son Anatole (born 2000) from her first marriage and a son Makar (born 2016) from her second.
1983 Lisa CARRINGTON, New Zealand canoeist.
1986 Sebastian KURZ, Austrian statesman.
EVENTS:
1857 Russian writer Fyodor DOSTOYEVSKY received the rank of ensign.
1859 In Pennsylvania (USA), Colonel Edwin DRAY drilled the world’s first oil well (in the USSR it was officially believed that the first wells were created in 1848 in Baku).
1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs published the first Tarzan story in the magazine.
1913 Lieutenant Pyotr NESTEROV in Kyiv, flying on a monoplane, for the first time performed a “dead loop” (“Nesterov’s loop”) – aerobatics.
1955 The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records was published on 198 pages. At first, the book looked like a solid reference book, but over time, funny and extravagant achievements also began to be included in it. Over 50,000 copies were sold in the first few months. By 1956, sales exceeded 5 million copies, and now – more than 85 million a year, in 40 languages.
2000 A fire broke out at the Ostankino TV tower in Moscow, three people died.
2009 Died Sergei MIKHALKOV, Russian writer, poet and statesman.
CITY DAYS:
Soligorsk – 65 years old.
