HOLIDAYS:
International Day of Democracy.
Belarus – Library Day (currently there are more than 2,500 public libraries in the system of the Ministry of Culture of Belarus).
Costa Rica – Independence Day.
SIGNS:
Mammoth Shepherd (patron of sheep and goats); Fedot and Rufina. Don’t drive the cattle out in the morning; if you drive them out, you’ll end up in trouble. Time to insulate sheds and housing.
BORN:
1789 James Fenimore COOPER, American writer. He was expelled from college for mischief, never received an education, and wrote with terrible spelling errors for the rest of his life.
1828 Alexander Mikhailovich BUTLEROV, Russian chemist, founder of organic chemistry.
1890 Agatha CHRISTIE (born Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie MILLIER), internationally renowned writer. It is known that her beloved husband Archibald cheated on Agatha and even tried to kill the poor thing, and after he demanded a divorce, what happened to the writer from time to time with the heroes of her novels – she disappeared. She was found in a hotel registered under a false name. And not just a stranger, but under the name… of the woman her husband was going to marry. In the “occupation” column on the questionnaire, she always wrote “married lady,” considering this to be the most correct answer.
1923 Mikhail Isaevich TANICH (nee TANKHILEVICH), Russian songwriter. Founder of the Lesopoval group.
1925 Kirill Yurievich LAVROV, Russian actor.
1929 Arlen Mikhailovich KASHKUREVICH, Belarusian graphic artist.
1941 Yuri Borisovich NORSHTEIN, Russian animator. His cartoon “Hedgehog in the Fog” is recognized as the best animation in the world in the history of animation.
1946 Tommy Lee JONES, American actor. Was married twice.
1963 Andrey Aleksandrovich RAZIN, Russian singer and producer, creator of the group “Tender May”. His father is from Grodno; his parents died in a car accident in 1964, after which Andrei was raised in an orphanage. His 16-year-old son Alexander (from his fourth marriage) died in 2017 from a heart attack.
1984 Prince Henry (Harry) of Wales, youngest son of King Charles III of Great Britain and Princess Diana. Married to American actress Meghan MARKLE, they have a son, Archie Harrison, born in 2019. and daughter Lilibet born in 2021. In 2020, Harry renounced his royal status, and the family now lives in the United States.
EVENTS:
1830 The first railway accident occurred (during the opening of the world’s first station in Manchester, civil servant W. HUSKISSON was mortally wounded).
1916 In the battle near the village of Flers near the Somme River, the British were the first in the world to use tanks in battle (model Mk-1), which caused panic among the Germans (one tank captured 300 German soldiers). Due to the low technical reliability of this model, only 32 vehicles advanced to their starting positions. Of these, 5 were stuck in a swamp and 9 failed due to technical reasons. In Russia, a prototype of the tank was created before the British, but it was never put into mass production.
1928 English microbiologist Alexander FLEMING was the first in the world to isolate penicillin.
1943 For the first time, the bridgehead near Novorossiysk was called Malaya Zemlya.
1971 The environmental organization Greenpeace was created, whose motto is: “Think globally, act locally!” Its founder, David Fraser Mac TAGGART, died in a car accident in 2001.
2000 Chinese archaeologists have found the tomb of Genghis Khan.
2015 Mihai VOLONTIR, Moldovan actor, has died.
2022 The famous Swiss tennis player Roger FEDERER announced his retirement.
