Holidays and commemorative dates:
International Day of Peacekeepers – celebrated since 2003 on the initiative of the UN. The day is dedicated to honoring the memory of the participants of peacekeeping missions who gave their lives to preserve peace.
World Digestive Health Day – more than 30% of all human diseases are related to problems of the gastrointestinal tract. May 29 was chosen as a day to remind people about the importance of healthy nutrition and draw attention to the health problems of the digestive system.
Events on this day:
1453 – the Turkish army led by Mehmed II captured Constantinople. The fall of the Byzantine Empire and the end of the Middle Ages.
1630 — the Pereyaslav agreement was signed, an agreement between the Ukrainian Cossack foreman and the Polish hetman S. Konetspolskyi
1738 — an imperial decree was published in St. Petersburg on the return of Cossacks and commoners who had fled to the Hetmanship and the Russian Empire to Slobid Ukraine.
1900 – the “Otis” company registered the “Escalator” trademark. Later, all lifts of this type will be called escalators.
1917 – John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was born
1928 — engineer-inventor Fritz von Opel on an experimental car of his own design crossed the speed limit of 200 kilometers per hour.
1953 – a person first conquered the highest point of the planet – Everest (8,848 m). New Zealander Edmund Percival Hillary and Sherpa Norgay Tenzing climbed to the top.
1964 — the largest botanical garden in the USSR was opened to visitors in Kyiv.
2014 — Major General of the National Guard of Ukraine Serhii Petrovych Kulchytskyi was killed in the combat zone during an anti-terrorist operation in the city of Slovyansk, Donetsk region. After unloading products at the 4th checkpoint and carrying out a personnel rotation, while returning from the area of Mount Karachun, the Mi-8 helicopter of the National Guard of Ukraine, on which Major General Serhiy Kulchytskyi was on board, was fired upon from the forest strip and hit by terrorists from MANPADS. The fuel tanks exploded during the fall. 12 people died as a result of the incident.
The Mi-8 helicopter, in which Kulchytskyi was, was shot down near Mount Karachun. It was his fourth flight to Karachun and the last day before vacation…
Then 12 people died – six servicemen of the National Guard of Ukraine, including the helicopter crew, and six representatives of the special unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. On June 20, 2014, Serhii Petrovych Kulchytskyi was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine.
