Holidays and commemorative dates:
World Bicycle Day – celebrated since 2018. The initiative to pay tribute to cycling professionals and amateurs was expressed by sociologist Leszek Sibylskyi. This idea was supported by 56 countries, after which the holiday was approved by a resolution of the UN General Assembly.
World Cider Day – on this day, festivals, tastings and other events dedicated to the sparkling drink are held in different countries of the world.
Parachute’s birthday – On June 3, 1785, the first device for slow landing was demonstrated to the public. It was designed by the French inventor Francois Blanchard.
Events on this day:
1527 — the Great Fire of Lviv began, which destroyed all the Gothic buildings of the city.
1545 — Ivan Vyshenskyi, a Ukrainian polemicist writer, was born.
1571 — the troops of the Crimean Khan Devlet-Gerai captured and burned Moscow to the ground
1768 – the Haidamat troops of Maksym Zaliznyak and Ivan Gonta took Uman.
1726 – James Gatton, Scottish scientist, founder of modern geology, was born.
1863 — the birthday of Yevhen Petrushevich, Ukrainian public and political figure, president of ZUNR.
1869 — the first line of the Kursk – Kharkiv – Lozova – Rostov-on-Don railway was opened – the future highway, which was called the Kursk-Kharkiv-Azov railway. It is one of the oldest railways of the Russian Empire and one of the longest roads in present-day Ukraine.
Traffic on the Kursk-Kharkiv section was opened on July 6, 1869. It is this date that the official website of the Southern Railway indicates as the opening day. The entire line of the KHA began to be put into operation already in January 1870.
In 1895, a steam locomotive factory began operating in Kharkiv. In 1901, a new station was opened at Kharkiv station. In 1930, the Kharkiv Institute of Railway Transport Engineers was founded. On July 30, 1957, the first electric locomotive passed through the Kharkiv-Merefa line.
The length of the present Southern Railway is more than 3,000 kilometers and the deployed length of the main tracks is more than 4,000 kilometers. The geographical position and configuration of the directions and sections of the railway give it great transit importance. The road provides transport service to the mining, engineering and agricultural region – six regions with a population of about 20 million people.
1892 — the English football club “Liverpool” was founded.
1924 – the writer Franz Kafka died.
