HOLIDAYS:
Belarus – Cultural Workers Day (more than 65 thousand people work in this area in the country).
SIGNS:
Sergius of Radonezh, Chicken Coop (keeper of chickens), Cabbage Man (on this day they began to chop cabbage). If the weather is good, then it will stand for three whole weeks.
BORN:
1871 Ivan Maksimovich Poddubny, famous Russian wrestler, “champion of champions.” Haven’t lost a single tournament. He ended his career at the age of 70.
1892 Marina Ivanovna TSVETAEVA, Russian poetess. She began writing poetry at the age of six (not only in Russian, but also in French and German): “…My poems, like precious wines, will have their turn.” She committed suicide in 1941. Her burial place is unknown.
1931 Yulian Semenovich SEMENOV (nee LYANDRES), Russian writer.
1936 Leonid Vyacheslavovich KURAVLYOV, Russian actor. Played more than 200 roles. Died 2022
1939 Paul HOGAN, Australian actor (Crocodile Dundee).
1949 Sigourney (Susan Alexandra) WEAVER, American actress. Her father was the president of the ABC national television network, and her mother, Elizabeth INGLIS, was a stage actress. Sigourney was already 182 cm tall at the age of 12.
1960 Yuri Iosifovich PUNTUS, Belarusian football player and coach.
1963 Tatyana Ivanovna AGAFONOVA, Russian actress, TV presenter. Now he is the chairman of the collective farm.
1965 Igor Vitalievich ZHIZHIKIN, Russian actor.
1970 Matt (Matthew Page) DAMON, American actor. He smoked, but quit after a visit to a hypnotist. In order to play the main role in the film “The Talented Mr. Ripley” (1999), Damon lost 13.5 kg. In addition, he had to learn to play the piano. He is married to former bartender Luciana BARROSO and they have three daughters.
1976 SEREGA (nee Sergey Vasilievich PARKHOMENKO), Russian singer. Born in Gomel. He has two sons.
1985 Bruno MARS (born Peter Gene HERNANDEZ), American singer.
1993 Garbiñe Muguruza Blanco, Spanish tennis player. She earned about $25 million during her career.
EVENTS:
1818 In England, boxing gloves were used for the first time in the world. In boxing, it is prohibited to strike below the belt, to the back of the head, to the back, to the head, or to an opponent who is knocked down. The fight is judged by a referee – a judge located in the ring, and 3-5 judges outside the ring.
1896 The Dow Jones Index, a key indicator of the situation on American stock exchanges, was released for the first time.
1906 Russian writer Leo TOLSTOY refused the Nobel Prize. He explained the refusal by saying that he did not know how to manage this money.
1908 London hairdresser Karl NESSLER was the first in the world to demonstrate permanent hair perm (now called “chemistry”). He performed his first experiments on his own mother’s head. The perm owes its widespread popularity to the American dancer Irene CASTLE.
1914 For the first time in the world, British planes carried out an aerial bombardment (German airship workshops were destroyed).
1926 The world’s first football report on radio took place (the match “Slavia” (Prague) – MTK (Budapest).
[1945American Percy SPENCER patented a microwave oven. The first microwave ovens, intended for army canteens and large restaurants, were cabinets 175 cm high and weighing 340 kg. The first serial household microwave oven was produced by the Japanese company Sharp in 1962. In the USSR, microwave ovens were produced by the ZIL plant.
1962 In the DPRK, an absolute record of unanimity in the elections was set – 100% of voters voted for the Workers’ Party.
1967 In England, for the first time in the world, tubes were used to determine the alcohol of drivers.
1980 Bob Marley’s last concert, during which he fell unconscious. The examination showed that the artist had cancer. Seven months later he died.
2022 Sabotage on the Crimean Bridge. As a result of the truck explosion, 250 m of the highway collapsed, 7 tanks of a freight train burned, and 3 people were killed.
2022 Italian cyclist Filippo GANNA set a new hourly cycling record (56.792 m in 60 minutes).
