HOLIDAYS:
Benin – Voodoo (witchcraft) day.
Japan – Day number 110 (110 is the police emergency number).
SIGNS:
Household day. On this day we went to the mountain, tied a rag on a stake and made a wish. Frost on the stacks – for a rainy summer.
BORN:
1747 Abraham Louis BREGUET, French watchmaker. His workshop produced the famous pocket watches (breguettes), which were distinguished by great accuracy; they chimed the hours, fractions of the hours and showed the dates of the month.
1883 Alexey Nikolaevich TOLSTOY, count, Soviet writer, one of the founders of Soviet science fiction. Thanks to him, we learned about Pinocchio. Tolstoy was married four times.
1934 Leonid Makarovich KRAVCHUK, ex-president of Ukraine. Died 2022
[1945 Rod (Roderick David) STEWART, English rock singer. He has two marriages, 8 (!) children.
[1945 Valentina Ivanovna TELICHKINA, Russian actress.
1949 George Edward FOREMAN, American heavyweight boxer who won the world title again at the age of 45.
1955 Michael (Michael) SCHENKER, German guitarist, founder of the Scorpions group.
1966 Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player. He has earned more than $20 million in prize money during his career.
EVENTS:
49 BC Contrary to the law, proconsul Gaius Julius CAESAR with one legion and 300 horsemen crossed the Rubicon River – the border between Italy and the Roman province of Cisalpine Gaul. The civil war began, and the expression “crossing the Rubicon” became a catchphrase.
1457 A court in Burgundy sentenced a pig to hang for killing a 5-year-old child.
1775 In Moscow, Cossack Emelyan PUGACHEV was executed on Bolotnaya Square. His last words were: “Forgive me, Orthodox people.”
1863 The first line of the world’s first subway, 3.6 km long, opened in London. Trains then were steam-powered and smoked terribly, which was a rather significant drawback underground. Nowadays, when designing underground subways, their dual purpose is taken into account: as an object of shelter in case of emergency situations.
1920 In the hockey match “Montreal” – “Toronto” the score was 14:7 (a record number of goals in NHL history).
1962 The greatest disaster in the history of avalanches occurred: a collapse from Mount Nevado Huascaran (Peru). The volume of snow and ice mass was approximately 3 million cubic meters. m, and by the end of the movement reached 10 million cubic meters. m. According to rough estimates, 4 thousand people and 10 thousand domestic animals died.
1971 Gabrielle “Coco” CHANEL, the famous French fashion designer, has died. The Chanel No. 5 perfume she created in 1922 became the world’s first artificial fragrance and is still a phenomenal success. Coco always took 10 years off her age. It’s interesting that after Chanel’s death, only three outfits were found in her closet.
1975 The first television program “What? Where? When?” was recorded.
2018 Mikhail DERZHAVIN, Russian actor, has died.
2020 Konstantin BROMBERG, a Russian director (“Adventures of Electronics”, “Sorcerers”), died in the USA.
