Holidays and commemorative dates:
World Blood Donor Day – celebrated since 2005 on the initiative of the UN. This date was chosen because Karl Landsteiner, an Austrian physician and immunologist, was born on June 14, 1868. In 1930, he received the Nobel Prize for the discovery of human blood groups.
International Blogger Day – celebrated since 2004. The date is devoted to blogging as a way of self-expression and dialogue with people from different countries and continents. Burnes-Lee is considered to be the first blogger, who started publishing posts in an online diary in 1992.
Events on this day:
1736 – Charles Augustin Coulomb, French physicist, military engineer, creator of the basic law of electrostatics was born
1783 — on the shore of Akhtiar Bay, Admiral Thomas Mackenzie of Scottish origin founded the first Russian naval base in the Crimea, which was named Sevastopol a year later at the request of Catherine II.
1834 – Isaac Fisher of Springfield (Vermont, USA) received a patent for sandpaper.
1891 — Yevgeny Konovalets, colonel of the Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, commander of the Sich rifle corps, head of the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement, was born.
1986 – the world-famous Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges passed away.
2014 — near the Luhansk airport, the occupiers shot down an Il-76 plane of the Air Force of Ukraine. 49 soldiers who were on board died.
2017 — a 27-story building collapsed in London, 12 people died, about 80 people were injured, others went missing
