HOLIDAYS:
World Running Day. world food safety day (Approximately 3 million people die each year from foodborne illnesses worldwide).
SIGNS:
Ivan, Ferapont. Strong dew – to a good harvest. Big dew – to the flax harvest. On this day, the main planting of cabbage was carried out.
BORN:
1778 George BRUMMELL, English trendsetter in the 1800s who invented neckerchiefs. He introduced daily washing into fashion, changed shirts three times a day, did not use perfume and did not wear wigs. He spent three hours a day on the toilet.
1848 Paul Eugene Henri Gauguin, French Post-Impressionist painter.
1868 Charles Mackintosh, inventor of waterproof raincoats (mackintoshes).
1911 Fyodor Anisimovich SURGANOV, Belarusian statesman. He died in a car accident in 1976. A street in Minsk was named after him.
1933 Arkady Mikhailovich ARKANOV (STEINBOCK), Russian satirist.
1940 Tom Jones (Thomas Jones WOODWARD), English singer.
1942 Muammar Gaddafi, head of Libya. Killed in 2011
1952 Liam Neeson, British actor.
1952 Daria (Agrippina Arkadyevna) DONTSOVA (VASILYEVA), Russian writer. She was married three times. She suffered from severe cancer. Her first work was a propaganda story about the hard work of steelworkers. A Syrian fortune teller told Dontsova that she would live to be 102 years old.
1957 Alexander Vitalievich MARSHAL (MINKOV), Russian singer. Married with a third marriage, son Artyom.
1958 PRINCE (Prince Rogers NELSON), American singer and songwriter. As a child, Prince ran away from his mother and stepfather to his father, who bought him his first guitar. Died 2016
1959 Tatyana Lyusyenovna DRUBICH, Russian actress. By profession, he is a dentist. She has a daughter Anna.
1974 Bear (Edward Michael) GRYLLS, British traveler and TV presenter, author of a number of famous Discovery Channel programs. He has three children.
1981 Anna Sergeevna KURNIKOVA, Russian tennis player and fashion model. By the way, in poker, the ace and the king (big slick) are called “Anna Kournikova” because. they look good but rarely win. Since 2003, Anna has been living with the Spanish singer Enrique IGLESIAS, they have three children.
1986 GLUKOZA (Natalya Ilyinichna IONOVA (by husband CHISTYAKOV)), Russian singer and actress. She has two daughters of her own and a son, Sasha, from her husband’s first marriage.
1991 Emily O’Hara Ratajkowski is an American model and actress. Her mother gave birth to her at the age of 39.
EVENTS:
1780 A meeting between the Russian Empress EKATERINA II and the Austrian Emperor JOSEPH II took place in Mogilev.
1929 In Italy, on the territory of Rome, the sovereign state of the Vatican was formed.
1944 During the Allied landings in Normandy, the most massive rescue operation was carried out without loss of life – all 2689 people on the sinking ship “Susan Anthony” were saved.
1958 The construction of the city of Novopolotsk began.
1965 Sony Corporation introduced the world’s first home video recorder for $995.
1969 15-year-old Dan BULLOCK became the youngest American soldier to die in Vietnam (when he was drafted into the army, he falsified documents, attributing several years to himself).
1998 The national football team of Belarus won the biggest victory in its history (against the Lithuanian team, 5:0). True, this match was friendly.
2021 In South Africa, 37-year-old Gosiame SITHOLE at the 29th week of pregnancy gave birth to 10 children at the same time (7 boys and 3 girls) – a world record! However, later investigation showed that Sithole was not even in a position and this whole story was completely fictional.
