HOLIDAYS:
World Pie Day.
Handwriting Day (Handwriting Day).
SIGNS:
Grigory Letoukazatel. Frost on the stacks, frost sweeping around the pillars – for a wet summer. Wind from the south – a stormy summer.
BORN:
1783 STENDHAL (born Henri Marie BAYLE), French writer. He argued: “A woman can prove her love only by parting with the object of her love. When she suffers, she loves even more. Happiness can kill the strongest feeling.” He died of apoplexy right on the street.
1832 Edouard MANET, French artist, one of the founders of impressionism. A month before his death, he underwent a severe operation to amputate his leg.
1903 Grigory Vasilyevich ALEXANDROV (MORMONENKO), Soviet director, husband of actress Lyubov ORLOVA.
1928 Jeanne MOREAU, French actress.
1944 Rutger Olsen HAUER, American actor, originally from Holland. Died 2019
1946 Boris Abramovich BEREZOVSKY, Russian oligarch. In 2013, he committed suicide in London, where he lived in exile. Was married 4 times. Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. He left behind six children and six grandchildren. According to his last passport, his name was Platon ELENIN. His second wife, Galina, sued him for about $300 million in 2011.
1947 Alexander Ivanovich INSHAKOV, Russian actor and stuntman.
1977 Olga Vladimirovna SHELEST, Russian TV presenter. She has daughters Muse and Iris.
1984 Arjen Robben, Dutch football player. I met my wife at school, they have three children.
1987 Leo (Leonid Aleksandrovich) KOMAROV, Finnish hockey player. Karelians are originally from Estonia. Married to tennis player Julia MANNER.
EVENTS:
1482 The holy book of the Jews, the Torah, was printed for the first time.
1556 In China, in the Shaanxi province, one of the most destructive earthquakes in history occurred, as a result of which approximately 830 thousand people died. According to eyewitnesses, entire cities sank into the ground in a matter of seconds.
1849 In the American state of New York, Elizabeth BLACKWELL became the first woman in the world to receive a medical degree.
1895 The captain of the Norwegian fishing vessel “Antarctic” CHRISTENSEN and his passenger BORCHGREVINK were the first in the world to set foot on Antarctica.
1911 The candidacy of Nobel laureate Marie Skłodowska-CURIE was rejected by members of the French Academy of Sciences when choosing new members of the Academy, which had never included women before.
1933 K.S. STANISLAVSKY wrote a letter to the Moscow Art Theater cloakroom staff, the letter contained the famous phrase “The theater begins with a hanger.”
1960 Swiss scientist Jacques PICARD and American Donald WALSH on the bathyscaphe Trieste sank to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, reaching a record depth of 10.915 m.
1987 The group “DDT” made its debut at the Leningrad rock club.
1989 Salvador DALI, Spanish artist, has died.
2021 Larry KING, American television host, has died. His parents immigrated to the United States from Belarus.
