И снова я имею желание сообщить вам о тех событиях, за которые надо бы выпить.
Потому что в этот день
родились:
745 – Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam
1433 – Charles, Duke of Burgundy
1483 – Martin Luther, German Protestant reformer
1683 – George II of Great Britain
1759 – Friedrich Schiller, German writer
1801 – Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer
1868 – Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist
1880 – Jacob Epstein, American sculptor
1888 – Andrei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer
1907 – John Moore, English author
1919 – Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, Russian inventor
1925 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor
1928 – Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
1976 – Sōta Fujimori
1983 – Sammie Rhodes, American pornographic actress
померли:
627 – Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury
901 – Adelaide of Paris, Queen of Western Francia
1444 – King Vladislaus III of Varna
1644 – Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer
1728 – Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admirals
1848 – Christian VIII of Denmark
1982 – Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (придавило орденами и большими буквами?)
и прямо сегодня ещё человек 300-1000, о которых никогда не напишут в интернете;
прочее:
1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded
1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, allegedly greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1928 – Michinomiya Hirohito is crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan, Emperor Showa
1989 – Fall of the communist regime in Bulgaria
Индонезия - день Героев.
Россия - день милиции (тоже в чём-то герои...)