Holidays and commemorative dates:
World Day Against Child Labour – established by the International Labor Organization (ILO) in 2002. The purpose of this day is to draw attention to the problems of child labor and to promote its eradication.
Red Rose Day – a tribute to the flower, which is a symbol of love and an important heraldic symbol. Archaeologists estimate the age of the oldest fossilized remains of a rose to be 35 million years.
Day of the stock market employee of Ukraine – celebrated annually since 2008. The holiday is designed to pay tribute to the contribution of stock market workers to the acceleration of economic reforms and the creation of a real market economy, the role of the stock market in the process of attracting investments to the economy of Ukraine and improving the investment climate.
Events on this day:
1839 – Abner Doubleday, who is often credited with inventing baseball, organized the first game in Cooperstown, New York. Although the authenticity of this event is often questioned, it is nevertheless noted as important in the history of sports.
1849 — LP Haslet patented a gas mask.
1884 – Gregor Mendel died – Austrian monk and scientist, the founder of genetics. His research on peas laid the foundations of the science of heredity.
1920 — the official opening of the Panama Canal (the first ship passed through the canal in August 1914).
1924 – George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States, the father of President George W. Bush, was born.
1929 – Anne Frank was born, a girl from Amsterdam who went down in history as the author of a diary that she kept for two years while her family was hiding from the Nazis
1935 — Robert Smith and Bill Wilson founded Alcoholics Anonymous. This organization offered a new approach to the treatment of alcoholism, based on mutual help and support, which had a great impact on many lives and spread throughout the world.
1966 — the operation of the world’s first trolleybus train by the inventor Volodymyr Veklych began in Kyiv.
On June 12, 1966, the successful operation of the world’s first trolleybus train of the 26-year-old inventor Volodymyr Pylypovich Veklych (born on November 8, 1938 in the village of Cherneshchyna, Zachepyliv district, Kharkiv region) began on route No. 6 in Kyiv. His invention was called the “Veklich Rocket”. The engineer created a system of connecting trolleybuses into a train with multi-unit control. All were based on mathematical models.
The economic effect of their implementation only on route No. 6 in Kyiv in 1968, where 25 trolleybus trains were used, amounted to about 160 thousand rubles – a huge amount of money for those times.
Later, such trains appeared in Kyiv, Riga, Tallinn, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and other cities. Volodymyr Veklych’s trains were a hallmark of the city of Kyiv. They were successfully operated in more than 20 cities of the USSR and even abroad, and determined the development of urban transport for several decades. Under the scientific leadership of V.F. Veklych, a strategy for the creation of a Ukrainian trolleybus was developed, which was embodied in the Program approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, and the “Southern” Design Bureau was appointed as the main developer of the design documentation.
By the way, the inventor Veklych, together with Dyakonov, initiated the construction of the first Kyiv high-speed tram line in the USSR. Unfortunately, not a single trolleybus train has survived in its entirety.
