Holidays and commemorative dates:
International Albinism Awareness Day – has been celebrated since 2015 at the initiative of the UN. Albinism is a congenital disease characterized by the absence of pigment in the skin and its appendages, in the iris and pigment membranes of the eyes.
Sewing machine day – Charles Friedrich Wiesenthal, a German physician and inventor who in 1755 received a patent for the first known mechanical sewing device. It can be argued that he invented the sewing machine.
Events on this day:
1782 – the Inquisition executed the last witch.
On June 13, 1782, the maid Anna Geldi was executed in the city of Glarus (the capital of the district in Switzerland), who was accused of poisoning and witchcraft. She is considered the last victim of a “witch hunt” in Europe and the last witch of Switzerland.
It is not known for certain whether Anna was a witch, but she was definitely not particularly righteous. It is known that she had two or three children and at the same time she was not married, which was quite a sin in those days. Most likely, the parents of Anna’s children were the maid’s employers.
All the accusations against the woman were based on rumors – either Anna treated her children with herbs, or mixed herbal additives in the food of her owners. On the basis of her confession, Anna Geldi was sentenced to death by the Glarus City Council and was beheaded the same day.
However, the judges, apparently realizing the absurdity of the accusations of witchcraft, officially accused her of poisoning. For 226 years, the Swiss Parliament rehabilitated Anna as a victim of a miscarriage of justice.
Do you think that’s the end of it? In vain Several fiction books and feature films have been dedicated to Anna Gelda. After the rehabilitation of Geldi in Glarus, June 13 became a day of commemoration, for the celebration of which the authorities allocate 120 thousand francs each year. A huge number of tourists come to the holiday – the main object of visiting the house-museum of the maid.
Experts appeared who began to take a professional interest in Anna’s story. They say that she was a beautiful and intelligent woman, generous, without special moral principles, but with “character”. She knew how to treat with herbs, quarreled with neighbors and was sharp-tongued.
1831 – James Clerk Maxwell, British physicist, was born. Developed the theory of the electromagnetic field
1892 — the first electric tram in the Russian Empire was launched for passengers in Kyiv.
1894 — Leo Kanner, a Ukrainian-American psychiatrist, one of the founders of child psychiatry, was born.
1970 — Oksana Lyaturynska, Ukrainian painter, sculptor and writer, died.
1983 — The first mass-produced mobile phone entered the US market. The device called “Dynatac 8000x” produced by the company “Motorola” weighed almost 800 grams, and its length was 33 cm.
1983 – The American space probe “Pioneer-10” crossed the orbit of Neptune and became the first human creation to leave the borders of the solar system.
1985 — Ukrainian writer Artem Cheh was born.
2014 — Ukrainian troops established control over Mariupol.
