Holidays and commemorative dates:
International day of parents – celebrated on the initiative of the UN since 2012. The holiday is designed to encourage people to value parental care.
Children’s Day – the holiday was established in 1925 in Geneva during the World Conference on the Protection of Children.
World Milk Day – has been celebrated since 2001 on the initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Food and Agriculture Organization).
Drawing day – visual creativity performs many functions – from perception of beauty and education to banal emotional release. our ancestors began to draw even before the appearance of intelligent man. The earliest known engravings were made on pieces of shell on the island of Java. They were made about 540 thousand years ago. They were probably created by Homo erectus.
International Day of Neighbors – celebrated on the initiative of the UN since 2000.
Events on this day:
1076 – Mstislav the Great, Grand Duke of Kyiv, eldest son of Volodymyr Monomakh, was born.
1494 – the first written mention of Scotch whiskey is recorded in the treasury reports of the Kingdom of Scotland. The distiller was monk John Kor.
1652 — the Battle of Batog began between the allied army of the Zaporizhzhya Army and the Crimean Khanate led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky against the Commonwealth of Independent States under the command of Martyn Kalynovsky. It was one of the important events in the course of Khmelnytskyi and ended with the victory of the allies.
1831 – while exploring the Arctic, the English traveler James Clark discovered the location of the Earth’s North Magnetic Pole.
1845 – the longest flight of a domestic pigeon was recorded – it covered a distance of 11 thousand kilometers (Namibia-London) in 55 days.
1893 – the premiere of J. Verdi’s opera “Falstaff” took place in Berlin.
1926 – Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Mortenson Baker), American actress, model, film director, was born.
1935 – number plates for cars and mandatory passing of driver’s license exams were introduced in Great Britain.
1938 – the first comic magazine in which Superman appeared – “Action Comics” – was published in the USA.
1958 – during the political crisis associated with the uprising in Algeria, Charles de Gaulle became the prime minister of France.
1988 – US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev exchanged ratification documents in Moscow on the Treaty on the Reduction of Intermediate-Range Nuclear Missiles, signed in December 1987.
