HOLIDAYS:
France – Bastille Day.
Sweden – Birthday of Crown Princess Victoria.
SIGNS:
Kuzma and Demyan, summer Kuzminki. Beginning of haymaking. In the garden, the ridges are watered, root crops are harvested.
BORN:
1743 Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet.
1903 Irving Stone, American writer.
1910 William Hanna, American cartoonist. Together with Joseph BARBERA in the 40-50s. worked at the film studio “Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer”, for which he created a series of cartoons “Tom and Jerry”. In 1958, they opened their own company and released The Flintstone Family, Yogi Bear, and others.
1919 Lino Ventura (Angelo Borrini), French actor.
1939 Karel Gott, the most famous Czech pop singer, “the Czech nightingale”. He died in 2019. He absolutely did not know how to dance, was never married and was one of the richest people in the Czech Republic.
1953 Didier MAROUANI (ECAMA), French musician. In 2019, he filed a lawsuit against Philip KIRKOROV regarding the copyright for the song “Cruel Love”, the amount of the claim is about $ 4 million.
1960 Polina DASHKOVA (Tatyana Viktorovna POLYACHENKO), Russian writer. She has two daughters.
1977 VICTORIA, Crown Princess of Sweden, heir to the throne.
1978 Vitaly Evgenievich GOGUNSKY, Russian actor (Kuzya in the series “Univer”). He has a daughter, Milan.
1986 PELAGEYA (Pelageya Sergeevna KHANOVA), Russian singer, mentor of the show “Voice”. She has a daughter Taisiya (born 2017) from hockey player Ivan TELEGIN, they divorced in 2019.
1988 Connor Anthony McGregor, Irish mixed martial artist. One of the richest athletes in the world – more than $350 million, although, according to him, he earned a billion.
EVENTS:
1789 Taking of the Bastille. In Paris, the rebellious people freed seven prisoners.
1867 Alfred NOBEL demonstrated dynamite for the first time.
1897 Sunday in Russia was declared an official day off.
1941 On the banks of the Dnieper near Orsha, the Soviet army (captain Flerov’s battery) used the Katyusha rocket launcher for the first time. The Nazis called this terrible weapon “Stalin’s organ” because of the howling sound of shells. The people who developed this powerful weapon, Georgy LANGEMAK and Ivan KLEIMENOV, were “rewarded” in the Stalinist way: they were shot.
1946 The first edition of Benjamin SPOCK’s book “Child Care and Education” has been published. They say that only the Bible was published in the world in the largest circulation. By the way, some of Spock’s ideas were even later recognized as extremely dangerous. It is known that it was Spock who introduced such a moment as feeding by the clock, which led to the fact that women lost milk, and prompted the development of artificial formula companies.
1952 The American company General Motors was the first in the world to install air conditioners in cars.
1969 A “football war” broke out between El Salvador and Honduras. The reason was the result of the qualifying match of the World Cup between the teams of these countries. As a result, the El Salvador national team went to the World Cup in Mexico, losing all three matches, and several hundred people became victims of hostilities.
1993 The television company NTV was registered.
2016 Terrorist act in Nice (France). 31-year-old Tunisian Mohamed Lauezh-Boulel on a 19-ton truck crashed into a crowd of people on the Promenade des Anglais, who were watching the fireworks in honor of Bastille Day. 86 people died, 308 were injured.
CITY DAYS:
Volkovysk – 1018 years.
