Holidays and commemorative dates:
All-Ukrainian Day of Local Studies — has been officially celebrated since 2017. May 28, 1925 is considered the date of institutionalization of the national local history movement, as the First All-Ukrainian Conference on Local History started in Kharkiv.
International Women’s Health Day – has been celebrated since 1987 in order to draw attention to the importance of women’s health care, in particular reproductive health care, as the future of the planet’s population depends on it.
Events on this day:
1742 – the world’s first indoor swimming pool was opened in London.
1908 – Ian Lancaster Fleming was born – writer, literary father of agent 007 James Bond, British journalist, naval intelligence officer.
Flemming was born in London in a rich noble family. Contemporaries assure that he copied the image of a super agent from himself, although his main specialty is a banker (in this direction he was quite successful).
He worked as a journalist and even went on a business trip to the USSR in 1933 to write an article about the case of six subway workers who were accused of sabotage. He wrote an article for Reuters, but something was missing… And then the journalist decided to visit Stalin and take an interview. Stalin refused and put his signature on the letter requesting a meeting. Fleming kept this autograph.
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During the Second World War, he became a scout. His activities during this period are quite vague, but it is known that it was Fleming who created a successful commando unit, and Fleming’s reports were read by the entire command – they were so vividly written.
After the war, he took up writing books and was successful again. Ian Fleming wrote 14 novels, the main character of which (James Bond) at one time overshadowed even Sherlock Holmes and brought its creator a good income. During Fleming’s lifetime, 30 million copies of his books were sold and twice as many were sold within two years of his death. Based on the works of Ian Fleming, 25 screen adaptations were made.
Fleming died in his castle in 1964.
A few quotes from the writer:
– Surround yourself with good people. Fighting for them is better than fighting for principles.
– I have no intention of wasting my allotted life trying to make it longer.
– Loneliness easily becomes a lover.
– A man needs a woman who can be turned on and off – like a light in a room.
– Politicians still failed to understand that the atomic age gave birth to the most dangerous saboteur in the history of the planet — a small man with a heavy suitcase.
– Today, history rushes forward too quickly, so heroes and thieves change places more and more often.
– Prohibitions are the main cause of all crimes.
1916 — Ivan Franko, one of the most prominent spiritual leaders of Ukraine, writer, scientist, social and political activist, publicist, died. Buried in Lviv at the Lychakivskyi cemetery.
1923 – The US Attorney General declared that women had the right to wear pants wherever and whenever they wanted.
1957 – the National Recording Academy was founded in the USA, which presents one of the most prestigious awards in the world of music – “Grammy”.
1959 – American scientists conducted a successful launch into space with the return of two monkeys, Able and Baker, on an AM-18 rocket.
1987 – German athlete-pilot Mathias Rust flew from Hamburg via Helsinki to Moscow and landed on Red Square, bypassing the entire air defense system of the USSR
1997 — in Kyiv, the Prime Ministers of Ukraine and Russia signed a package of documents on the basing and distribution of the Black Sea Fleet.
