HOLIDAYS:
World Oceans Day.
SIGNS:
Karp Karpolov. A good day for fishing, especially for carp. A lot of mosquitoes – to the rain.
BORN:
1895 Santiago BERNABEU, owner and president of the Spanish football club Real Madrid, after whom the stadium in Madrid is named.
1920 Ivan Nikitovich KOZHEDUB, a famous pilot, air marshal, three times Hero of the Soviet Union, who shot down 62 enemy aircraft during the Great Patriotic War. Participated in 120 air battles.
1926 Oleg Vasilyevich KOSHEVOY, commissioner of the underground Komsomol organization “Young Guard” in Krasnodon.
1951 Bonnie TYLER (born Gaynor Hopkins) is an English singer. Her characteristic hoarseness in her voice is caused by tonsils cut out at the age of 25. Lives in Germany. Participated in Eurovision 2013.
1955 Timothy John BERNERS-LEE, sir, English scientist, inventor of the Internet.
1963 Dmitry Anatolyevich PEVTSOV, Russian actor. Born in the family of a pentathlon coach and a sports doctor. Married with a second marriage to actress Olga DROZDOVA, they have a son, Elisha (born 2007). In 2012, his son from his first marriage, Daniil (born in 1990), fell from a balcony and crashed to death.
1977 Kanye Omari West, American rapper, ex-husband of Kim Kardashian. One of the richest musicians in the world – $ 1.4 billion (!). In 2013, he performed for $3 million in Kazakhstan at the wedding of Nursultan NAZARBAYEV’s grandson.
1986 Sergey Vyacheslavovich KRIVETS, Belarusian football player. He is the author of the first goal scored by Belarusian clubs in the main draw of the UEFA Champions League (BATE Borisov – Juventus 2:2, Minsk, 30.09.2008).
1997 Elena Evgenievna Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player. Earned over $12.5 million in prize money.
EVENTS:
632 The founder of Islam, the Prophet MUHAMMED (born about 570), died.
1786 The world’s first ice cream went on sale in New York.
1824 Noah Cushing from Quebec (Canada) has patented a washing machine.
1869 American Ives McGuffney patented the world’s first vacuum cleaner, which he called the “Whirlwind” (“to hold and guide”). The first vacuum cleaner cost $25. In its upper part there was a handle connected by a belt drive to a fan. The handle was operated by hand. The vacuum cleaner was light and compact, but inconvenient to use due to the need to simultaneously turn the handle and push the device along the floor.
1896 There was the first officially registered car theft.
1948 Under the leadership of academician KURCHATOV in Chelyabinsk-40 (now Ozersk) the first Soviet industrial nuclear reactor was launched.
1949 In London, with a circulation of 25,500 copies (and 5 days later in New York), George Orwell’s novel “1984” was published. Since then, the novel has been repeatedly reprinted, translated into more than 60 languages, and filmed. “War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength” – these are the three main slogans of the totalitarian state described in Orwell’s dystopia.
1958 The USSR football team made its debut at the World Championships, playing with England in a 2-2 draw.
1972 The comedy by Leonid Gaidai “The Twelve Chairs” was released.
2015 JUNA, a Russian healer and astrologer, has died.
