HOLIDAYS:
World Book Day.
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.
Singapore – Independence Day.
SIGNS:
Nikola Kochansky, Paliy. Heads of cabbage curl. Thunderstorms are feared on this day. Whoever works for Palia will burn his bread with a thunderstorm.
BORN:
1776 Amedeo AVOGADRO, Italian physicist and chemist. He put forward a molecular hypothesis of the structure of matter, discovered the chemical formula of water.
1893 Vera Vasilievna KHOLODNAYA (nee PEVCHENKO), famous Russian silent film actress. She died in Odessa, in 1919, at the age of 25 from the “Spanish flu” (typhoid) that was rampant at that time. On the day of her funeral, theaters and cinemas did not work in the city, a procession of ten thousand accompanied the queen of the screen on her last journey.
1913 Nikita Sergeevich BOGOSLOVSKII, Russian composer.
1914 Tove Marika Jansson, a Finnish writer who told us about the life of the Moomins. There are several legends about how the image of Moomintroll arose, but they all agree that its graphic embodiment appeared no earlier than 1930. The first image of Moomintroll was published in a cartoon in the Finnish magazine Garm in 1940.
1938 Leonid Danilovich KUCHMA, Ukrainian statesman.
1957 Melanie Griffith, American actress, until 2014 – the wife of Antonio BANDERAS. In commercials, they began to shoot her from 9 months old. She has three children from four marriages.
1959 Maria Agasovna GULEGINA (girl MEITARDJYAN), Belarusian opera singer. She has a daughter and a son.
1963 Whitney Elizabeth HOUSTON is an American singer and actress. She made her stage debut at the age of 11. Died in 2012
1974 Raphael Poiret, French biathlete. In the 2012/13 season – coach of the Belarusian national team.
1978 Audrey Tautou, French actress.
1982 Tyson GAY, American sprint track and field athlete.
EVENTS:
1910 Chicago resident Alva FISHER has patented an electric washing machine. Prior to this, the mechanism of washing machines was set in motion manually.
1942 The famous performance of Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH’s Seventh (“Leningrad”) Symphony took place in besieged Leningrad. Behind the conductor’s stand was the chief conductor of the Leningrad Radio Orchestra Karl ELIASBERG. He was ill with dystrophy, and any movement took away a particle of his life. To form an orchestra, musicians were called from the front. During the performance of the symphony, due to enhanced security measures, not a single fascist bomb fell on the city: by order of the commander of the Leningrad Front, Marshal GOVOROV, all enemy points were suppressed in advance.
1944 An automobile assembly plant was organized in Minsk (later, the Minsk Automobile Plant – MAZ) was created on its basis.
[1945Three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the Americans dropped a second atomic bomb, called “Fat Man”, on the city of Nagasaki (253 thousand inhabitants). The American pilot SWEENIE, piloting a plane with a bomb, was supposed to drop it on the city of Kokura, but due to bad weather conditions and a slight malfunction of the plane, he dropped it on Nagasaki. 74 thousand people died, more than 40 thousand were injured.
1996 New Zealander Alan McKay blew the longest soap bubble – 32 meters long.
2022 At the age of 93, Nikolai SLYUNKOV, a Belarusian statesman, died.
