Holidays and commemorative dates:
World Technology Day for the Future – the purpose of the celebration: to draw the attention of humanity to the importance of technological development and to raise awareness of future technologies and their use.
Hummus Day, Apple Pie and Fruit Cocktail Day – a whole constellation of gastronomic holidays is celebrated today. International Hummus Day has been celebrated since 2012. This is a dish prepared from boiled chickpeas, sesame, olive oil and spices. Hummus is quite popular in the Middle East. In Israel, it is a national dish.
But charlotte and fruit juice are not celebrated at the international level today – they are national holidays in the USA. The recipe for apple pie was first printed more than 630 years ago in England (1381). But it is not yet known when they started to cook them. It is believed that the people of Egypt were preparing apple pie more than eleven years ago.
Events on this day:
1501 — Amerigo Vespucci set out on a journey across the Atlantic Ocean. As a result, the traveler found out that Columbus had discovered a new continent. America was named after Amerigo Vespucci.
1849 – born Panas Myrnyi, Ukrainian writer, novelist and playwright.
1865 — the third university on the territory of Ukraine — Novorossiysk — was opened in Odesa. Today it is the Mechnikov National University.
1913 — the test flight of the world’s first 4-engine plane “Russian Knight” designed by Igor Sikorsky from Kyiv. The weight of the plane (about 5 tons) was four times greater than the weight of the largest airplane at that time.
1916 Sholom Aleichem, a Jewish writer, died.
1927 — Kyiv football club “Dynamo” was founded. It was the most titled club in Ukraine and the USSR. The first registered game of Kyiv took place on July 17, 1928. Then they played a match against Odesa “Dynamo” with a score of 2:2.
During the Soviet period, the club won 13 USSR championships, 9 USSR Cups, 3 USSR Super Cups. One of the two football clubs (along with Dynamo Moscow) that participated in all USSR championships in the top division. Became the first non-Moscow team to win the USSR championship.
But, the irony of fate… May 13 is the day of memory of Valery Vasyliovych Lobanovskyi, one of the most authoritative experts in world football, who combined coaching talent and great organizational skills.
“A coach must learn throughout his life. If he gets old, stops learning, then he stops being a coach. It’s time not to cheat. He sets the accents. And teaches – too”, – said Lobanovskyi.
The coach died in Zaporizhzhia in 2002. A long-time coach of Kyiv “Dynamo”, under his coaching the club won the Cup Winners’ Cup twice. He coached the USSR national team three times, with which he became the vice-champion of Europe in 1988. Head coach of the Ukrainian national team in 2000-2001.
Lobanovskyi’s honors include Master of Sports of the USSR, Honored Coach of the USSR, Knight of the Order of Merit II and III degrees of Ukraine. Hero of Ukraine. Knight of the UEFA Ruby Order, as well as the FIFA Order of Merit – the highest award of FIFA, for a significant contribution to the development of football.
At the beginning of 2017, UEFA included him in the list of the ten best European football coaches since the foundation of the organization in 1954.
“Movement is life, rest is death”, – Valery Lobanovsky liked to repeat.
1933 – died Mykola Khvylovy, Ukrainian novelist, poet, publicist, one of the founders of post-revolutionary Ukrainian prose.
1950 — the first Formula 1 championship race was held in Silverstone (Great Britain).
1992 — a world record was set – American astronauts were in space for 8 hours and 29 minutes. Also, on this day, for the first time, three cosmonauts went into space at once.
