HOLIDAYS:
International Day to Protect Sex Workers from Violence and Cruelty (the symbol of the holiday is a red umbrella).
Belarus – Belarusian Cinema Day (On December 17, 1924, under the People’s Commissariat of Education of the BSSR, a state administration for cinematography and photography was created – “Belgoskino”).
SIGNS:
Varvara. Varvara frosts are coming. By this day it seemed to become a little brighter, and the old women said: “Varvara stole from the night, but brought it to the day.”
BORN:
1873 Horace GOLDIN, Polish illusionist, was the first in the world to use the trick of cutting a woman.
1928 Leonid Sergeevich BRONEVOY, Soviet actor. His favorite joke: “Stirlitz shot at Muller, but the bullet bounced off. “Armored,” thought Stirlitz.” Died 2017
1936 Francis I (Jorge Mario BERGOGLO), Pope, head of the Roman Catholic Church (since 03/13/2013). Born in Argentina to a family of Italian immigrants.
1975 Milla (Milica Natasha) JOVOVIC, an American actress and model, has Ukrainian roots. Her mother, Galina LOGINOVA, was an actress, and her father was Yugoslavian pediatrician Bozic Jovovich. Milla spent the first five years in the USSR, from where she went to see her dad in London (he had a private clinic there). In 1980, the family moved to the USA. At school, other children treated her with hostility because her parents were from the USSR. When Jovovich was 15 years old, her father was sentenced to 7 years for financial fraud with health insurance. Milla came to the audition for the film “The Fifth Element” with provocative makeup, and she was rejected. But then Luc BESSON accidentally saw her without makeup in a Los Angeles hotel and suggested that she go through the casting again. Milla has two daughters.
1977 Oksana Gennadievna FEDOROVA, “Miss Universe” (2002), police major, Russian singer, TV presenter. Height – 178 cm, 88/64/93 cm. She was raised by her mother, her father left the family early. Now married to Russian FSB officer Andrei BORODIN, they have two children.
1988 David Lekuta RUDISHA, famous Kenyan long distance runner.
EVENTS:
1777 France was the first to recognize US independence.
1791 The first one-way street appeared in New York long ago. Surely the reason was the constant traffic jams that arose due to the reluctance of cab drivers to give way to each other.
1903 The Americans, brothers Wilbur and Orville WRIGHT, were the first in the world to make a flight lasting 59 seconds on the Flyer aircraft they built with an internal combustion engine.
1923 In the USSR, a service of local police officers was created.
1926 According to the Second All-Union Population Census, 4 million 983 thousand people lived in Belarus, 130,838 people lived in Minsk. By the way, as of January 1, 2023, more than 9 million 200 thousand people lived in Belarus, and more than 1 million 995 thousand people lived in Minsk.
1961 The largest circus fire in history occurred in Niteroi, Brazil, killing 323 people.
1965 The world’s largest issue of a newspaper was published in the USA (New York Times, 946 pages).
1968 In Belarus, a pioneer camp “Zubrenok” opened on Lake Naroch.
1979 Circus performer Tahir DUIS set a world record by holding a pyramid of 12 people with a total weight of 771 kg.
1986 At Papworth Hospital (England), Devin THOMPSON became the first person in the world to undergo a simultaneous heart, liver and lung transplant.
1996 In Lima (Peru), terrorists seized the Japanese embassy building with more than 500 hostages.
1999 About 30 thousand people died due to floods and landslides in Venezuela.
2011 Kim Jong-Il, head of North Korea, has died.