HOLIDAYS:
World Youth Skills Day.
Brunei – Sultan’s Day (Brunei is a sultanate on the northwestern coast of the island of Kalimantan (Borneo).
SIGNS:
Bereginya. She kept the harvest from crop failures, took care of the peasant cattle, was an accomplice to the fishermen. Yellow leaves on trees – by early autumn and winter.
BORN:
1606 Harmens Rembrandt Van Rijn, the great Dutch painter. Ilya REPIN wrote that not a single artist in the world could equal Rembrandt in “music of keys” and “the grace and completeness of the whole.”
1876 Aunt (Eloise Stepanovna PASHKEVICH), Belarusian poetess.
1924 Mahmud Alisultanovich ESAMBAEV, famous Russian dancer.
1946 Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Muiziddin WADDAULAH, Sultan of Brunei, who is simultaneously the Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Minister of Finance of the country. The personal fortune of the Sultan is over $40 billion. His palace, built in 1984, has 1788 halls and rooms – a world record for the size of the palace (200 thousand square meters). He has over 600 cars in his personal collection. Rolls-Royce and about half a thousand Ferrari (about 7,000 cars in total (!). He now has two wives (there were three, he divorced one) and 12 children from them.
[1945Yuri Shmilevich AYZENSHPIS, a Russian producer who spent 18 years in prison for currency fraud and after that “unwound” the rock bands Kino, Tekhnologiya, Vlad STASHEVSKY, NIKITA and Dima BILAN. Died 2005
1964 Zhanna Vladimirovna EPPLE, Russian actress. She has two sons.
1969 Oliver Kahn, German football goalkeeper.
1969 Alexander Georgievich VASILIEV, leader of the Spleen group. Alexander’s wife, two sons.
1985 Agnia Evgenievna Kuznetsova, Russian actress. She has a son Andron.
EVENTS:
1410 The Battle of Grunwald took place.
1869 The Frenchman Hippolyte MEGE-MURIER patented margarine (originally this product was intended for the needs of the Navy).
1988 In Japan, they staged the largest fireworks in the centuries-old history of this fun. In honor of the festival on the island of Hokkaido, a 700-kilogram rocket with a diameter of 139 cm took off into the sky, which, after exploding, formed a sparkling ball with a diameter of 1.2 km.
1996 Prince Charles and Princess Diana have signed divorce papers.
1997 At the entrance to his house in Miami Beach (USA), Italian fashion designer Gianni VERSACE was shot dead by his lover. They say that he knew in advance about his death, refusing to guard and paying in advance all debts on taxes.
1998 At Sotheby’s, Winston CHURCHILL’s hat was sold for £25,300 (a record price for hats).
2006 The social network (microblogging service) Twitter was founded.
2014 In the Moscow metro, the train at full speed crashed into the concrete wall of the tunnel. As a result of the accident, 24 people were killed and 217 people were injured. The cause of the tragedy was the device for switching arrows, fixed with too thin wire, which broke.
2016 On the night of July 15-16, a coup attempt was made in Turkey.
2022 Died Georgy YARTSEV, Russian football player, coach.
CITY DAYS:
Birch – 546 years.
