Holidays and commemorative dates:
Ballpoint pen day – June 10, 1943 is a happy day for schoolchildren all over the world – the Hungarian László Biro invented the ballpoint pen.
Day of healthy eating – The holiday is celebrated on the second Monday of June. It starts the week of healthy eating.
Events on this day:
1793 – The world’s first public zoo was created in Paris.
1832 – Nikolaus Otto, a German designer who created the 4-stroke internal combustion engine, was born.
1865 — The premiere of Richard Wagner’s opera “Tristan und Isolde” took place in Munich.
1865 – Frederick Cook, an American explorer who claimed to be the first in the world to reach the North Pole, was born.
1909 – The passenger ship “Slavonia”, which suffered a disaster near the Azores, used the SOS signal for the first time in the world.
1926 – Antonio Gaudi, Catalan architect, representative of Art Nouveau and Art Nouveau, died. He implemented most of the projects in Barcelona.
Gaudí became interested in architecture and drawing while still at school, and in 1870 he moved to Barcelona to enter the local university to study architecture. He spent several years preparing for admission, while simultaneously working as a draftsman for local architects.
The individuality of his worldview manifested itself quite acutely even when Gaudí was a student. He hated analytical geometry with its straight lines and angles. Instead, he was fascinated by curvilinear forms and the variety of living nature, from which his unique style, diverse in form and color, grew.
1944 — Oleg Olzhych (Oleg Kandyba), a Ukrainian poet and archaeologist, one of the leading figures of the OUN, son of Oleksandr Oles, passed away.
1951 — Vasyl Shklyar, Ukrainian writer and politician, “the father of the Ukrainian bestseller.”
1961 — Ukrainian artist Kateryna Bilokur left this world.
1984 — The Americans conducted the first successful test of an anti-missile system in space.
