Holidays and commemorative dates:
International Day of Biological Diversity – the holiday is designed to draw attention to the disappearance of some species of plants and animals. The Day of Biological Diversity was originally planned to be celebrated on December 29, when the UN Convention on Biological Diversity entered into force. However, such a date turned out to be not very convenient for holding an international holiday, because the end of December in many countries is a period full of holidays. That is why in 2000 it was decided to move the International Day of Biological Diversity to May 22.
World Goth Day – it is not about a group of East Germanic tribes associated with the Great Migration, but about a youth subculture. They are supporters of black color, heavy music and elements of the occult. The holiday was celebrated for the first time in 2009 in Great Britain.
Events on this day:
1813 – Richard Wagner, German composer, was born.
1840 — birthday of Mark Kropyvnytskyi, Ukrainian actor, director and playwright, founder of Ukrainian theater.
1859 – Arthur Conan Doyle, English writer, author of stories about Sherlock Holmes, was born.
1892 – Dr. Washington Sheffield invented the toothpaste tube.
1846 — the Associated Press news agency was founded in New York.
1861 — Taras Shevchenko was reburied on Chernechaya Gora above the Dnieper in Kanev.
1885 – the French writer Victor Hugo died.
1919 — In Kyiv, in the Church of St. Nicholas, the first divine service was held in the Ukrainian language, due to which this day “unofficially” became the birthday of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.
1939 – Hitler and Mussolini created a political and military alliance between Germany and Italy (the so-called “Pact of Steel”).
1960 – the strongest earthquake of the 20th century, measuring 9.5 on the Richter scale, occurred in Chile.
1990 – Microsoft announced the release of the Windows 3.0 operating system.
1995 – Astronomers Amanda Bosch and Andrew Ryvkin discovered two new satellites in Saturn’s orbit in photographs sent by the Hubble telescope.
2009 — the SBU opened a criminal case on the fact of the Genocide in Ukraine in 1932-1933 (under Part 1 of Article 442 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — “Genocide”).
