Holidays and commemorative dates:
Day of healthy eating and rejection of excessive food – celebrated on the initiative of the UN since 2011. The holiday is designed to draw attention to the influence of nutrition and lifestyle on human health.
Grilled chicken day – this holiday has national status in the USA.
Events on this day:
455 – the Vandals captured Rome, after which they plundered it for two weeks
1652 — Cossack-Tatar troops under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnytsky defeated the army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth led by M. Kalinovsky near Batog.
1842 — the first volume of Mykola Gogol’s novel “Dead Souls” was published.
1851 — The state of Maine (USA) was the first to introduce a “dry law” on its territory.
1896 – the Italian Guglielmo Marconi patented the radio.
1918 — The German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire legally recognized the authority of the Hetman in Ukraine.
1924 – The US Congress granted citizenship to all American Indians.
1946 — as a result of a plebiscite held in the Kingdom of Italy, the monarchy was abolished and the creation of the Italian Republic was proclaimed.
1953 — the coronation of Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, took place.
On June 2, 1953, the coronation ceremony of Elizabeth II took place in Westminster Abbey. The Queen was presented with symbols of power, and the Archbishop of Canterbury put on her a crown weighing 2,200 grams. It was the first coronation of a British monarch to be televised (the coronation was broadcast live on the BBC). It is believed that this event significantly contributed to the growth of the popularity of television broadcasting. The admission of television became the main feature of the ceremony, sanctified by age-old traditions.
Addressing her subjects, the 27-year-old queen said: “Throughout my whole life, from the bottom of my heart, I will try to be worthy of your trust. Although my life experience is so small, and the task before me is new for me, I have in the person of my parents and my grandparents are examples that I can follow with confidence and trust.”
Elizabeth ruled the country for more than 60 years, during this time there were 7 Roman popes, 7 archbishops of Canterbury, 12 prime ministers, and the British Empire ceased to exist. At the time of her death, she was the monarch of fourteen independent states in addition to Great Britain – in Australia, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Belize, Grenada, Canada, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. – Lucia, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Jamaica.
1996 — Ukraine officially lost the status of a nuclear power.
2010 — deputies of the National Assembly of Quebec unanimously adopted a draft law recognizing the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as genocide of the Ukrainian people and proclaimed the Day of Remembrance of the Holodomor Victims.
