HOLIDAYS:
World Pneumonia Day (the symbol of this day is blue jeans).
Azerbaijan – Day Constitution.
SIGNS:
Zinovy Sinichnik. Tits, goldfinches, bullfinches, and jays arrive. The hunters went out on this day for the first powder. If wolves come to Zinovy in packs, it means famine, pestilence or war.
BORN:
1833 Alexander Porfirievich BORODIN, Russian composer and chemist, member of the “Mighty Handful”. He was a serf by birth. When Borodin was born, his father was 62 years old and his mother 25 years old.
1840 Francois Auguste René Rodin, French sculptor.
1920 Andrei Egorovich MAKAYONOK, Belarusian writer and playwright.
1929 Grace Patricia KELLY, American actress, Princess of Monaco (1956-82). For a long time, fashionistas around the world copied Kelly’s wedding dress and dreamed of one of the most expensive small handbags, which bore the name of the princess – Grace.
1935 Lyudmila Markovna GURCHENKO, Russian actress and singer. In Soviet hairdressers, the most popular order was a haircut, which was secretly called “under Gurchenko”; women lost weight “under Gurchenko” and walked like her. Her second husband was Joseph Kobzon.
1961 Nadia (Nadia Elena) COMANECHI, famous Romanian gymnast of Hungarian origin. Now she lives in the USA, she has a son. She is the first gymnast in the world to achieve a perfect score of 10.0 in international competition. She is ranked 10th in the list of the 100 Greatest Romanians in History.
1964 Natalya Igorevna NEGODA, Russian actress (“Little Vera”). She became the first Russian woman to appear on the cover of Playboy magazine.
1966 Alexey Anatolyevich KORTNEV, Russian musician, leader of the group “Accident”. He has three marriages and five children.
1980 Ryan Thomas GOSLING, Canadian actor. He has two daughters with actress Eva MENDES.
1982 Anne Jacqueline HATTAWAY, American actress. Her parents named her Anne to be the full namesake of Shakespeare’s wife Anne Hattaway. She has sons Jonathan and Jack.
1982 Yulia Olegovna KOVALCHUK, Russian singer and TV presenter. The wife of singer and TV presenter Alexei CHUMAKOV. They have two daughters.
EVENTS:
930 The world’s oldest parliament, the Icelandic Althing, was founded.
1902 Singer Enrico CARUSO recorded a record that was the first in the world to sell over 1 million copies.
1910 The world’s first film stunt was filmed in the USA – a stuntman jumped into the Hudson River from a burning hot air balloon.
1933 The first photograph of the alleged Loch Ness monster has been taken.
1956 The largest iceberg in history (335 km long) was discovered in the Pacific Ocean.
1974 J. ENEDRELL (England) fell asleep, he woke up 4 days later with his left arm burned almost to the bone and other burns. There were no signs of fire in the room.
1996 The sculpture “Little Dancer” by Edgar DEGAS was sold at auction in New York for $10.8 million (a record price for a sculpture).
2018 Igor LUCHENOK, Belarusian composer, has died.
2020 In connection with the coronavirus, a mandatory mask regime was introduced in Minsk.
2021 Viktor KOKLYUSHKIN, a Russian satirist writer, father-in-law of TV presenter Vladimir SOLOVYOV, has died.
