HOLIDAYS:
International men’s day.
Russia – National Unity Day.
SIGNS:
Winter (autumn) Kazan. What Kazanskaya shows, winter will say. It always rains on this day. Weddings were tried to be played in Kazanskaya, since “Whoever marries in Kazanskaya will be happy.”
BORN:
1784 Osip (Joseph) Ivanovich BAUVE, Russian architect of Italian origin. He revived the architecture of Moscow after the War of 1812.
1887 Tishka GARTNY (nee Dmitry Fedorovich ZHILUNOVICH), Belarusian writer and statesman. Head of the first government of the BSSR (1919).
1956 Igor Vladimirovich TALKOV, Russian singer, composer. He was killed in 1991 at a concert in the St. Petersburg Yubileiny Sports Palace. The initial version of the cause of death was called Talkov’s conflict with singer AZIZA’s bodyguard Igor MALAKHOV due to the order of the artists’ performances. However, Malakhov’s guilt was not proven.
1966 TROFIM (nee Sergey Vyacheslavovich TROFIMOV), Russian singer. From 1991 to 1993 he served as a choirmaster in the church. He has two daughters and a son. Trofim is the author of many songs performed by Alexander IVANOV (for example, “God, what a trifle!”).
1972 Luis Filipe Madeira Coeiro Figo, Portuguese footballer. He has three daughters with Swedish model Helen SVEDIN. Figo is a respected postage stamp collector (philatelist) in the world.
1984 Galina Dmitrievna BOB, Russian actress (Masha BOBYLKINA in the series “Deffchonki”). She has two sons.
EVENTS:
1862 American inventor R. GATLING patented a “rapid fire” (machine gun).
1873 San Francisco dentist John Beers patented gold dental crowns.
1879 American Jade RITTY, in order to put an end to the theft of bartenders in his saloon in the city of Dayton, patented the world’s first cash register. In the first model, each trading operation was recorded on disk. Later, a special indicator appeared that allowed both the cashier and the buyer to see the cost of the purchase. Once the indicator began to show the amount that the seller had to put in the cash drawer, the temptation to hide anything became much less. Ritti also came up with a device that recorded every monetary transaction on a paper roll. From now on, the owner could check the amount of cash in the cash register with the amount indicated on the roll and find out exactly how many purchases were made per day.
1890 The world’s first underground electric road, the metro, opened in London. The Prince of Wales, future King EDWARD VII of Great Britain, opened the metro and became its first passenger. The first line, 6 kilometers long, was called the Metropolitan Railway, that is, “metropolitan railway.” The reduction of this long name to five letters gave rise to the familiar “metro” to all of us.
1899 Sigmund Freud’s most famous book, The Interpretation of Dreams, has been published. On the cover was the year of issue – 1900. Only 600 copies were printed. In the first six weeks, 123 people purchased the book, and the entire circulation was sold out only after 9 years, but in its influence on the world it is compared to the main creations of Karl MARX and Charles DARWIN.
1914 The world’s first public fashion show took place in New York.
1922 Englishman Howard CARTER discovered the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt. Excavations continued for two years. Almost everyone who took part in the excavations soon died under mysterious circumstances.
1939 A car with air conditioning was demonstrated for the first time at the Chicago Auto Show.
1946 UNESCO – the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization – was created in Paris. The BSSR became a member of UNESCO on May 12, 1954. Four sites in Belarus are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List: Belovezhskaya Pushcha, Nesvizh and Mir castles and the Struve Geodetic Arc.
1967 In Moscow, the construction of the Ostankino TV tower, 540 meters high, was completed.
1997 Ontario (Canada) resident Steve HOLT demonstrated the world’s largest zucchini weighing 437 kg.
2004 The restored Town Hall was opened in Minsk.
