Holidays and commemorative dates:
Day of the Infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine – in the conditions of a full-scale war, this professional holiday acquired special significance. It was on this day in 1648 that the Cossacks defeated the Polish army in the Battle of Yellow Waters. The date was established in 2019 by the decree of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in order to honor the courage and heroism of the soldiers of the mechanized, motorized infantry, mountain assault military units and units of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, manifested in the struggle for freedom, independence and territorial integrity of our state.
The editors of IA “FAKT” congratulate our infantry defenders! You are the first to stand in defense of our Motherland! We wish you good health, endurance and success in all military operations, peace, victory and an early return home! Keep yourselves! Your courage and heroism deserve great respect! We thank you!
International No Diet Day – was founded in 1992 on the initiative of the director of the British movement “Diet Breakers” Mary Evans Young. Ms Young suffered from anorexia. Later, she became a propagandist of a healthy lifestyle.
International Day of Women on Motorcycles – first held in Canada in 2007. On this day, lady bikers from all over the world organize symbolic motorcycle races.
Events on this day:
1686 — Muscovy and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth concluded the “Eternal Peace”, according to which the Hetmanship was divided between the Muscovy Kingdom and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and part of the central lands was to become uninhabited.
1833 — The first steel plow was made in the USA.
1840 — England issued its first postage stamp, the one-penny Queen Victoria (“Black Penny”).
1856 – in the small town of Freiberg in Moravia, which at that time belonged to Austria, Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist, psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis, was born.
Some considered his works to be intellectual quackery and fraud. But the majority recognized: “… psychoanalysis will be the foundation for the psychotherapy of the future.”
The guru of psychoanalysis planned to become a lawyer after graduating from high school, but medicine still won. Although he never felt any interest in her at all, which he later wrote about repeatedly. He had a passion for smoking and was a lover of cocaine. Moreover, he distributed doses to his friends, prescribed cocaine to patients and even gave it to his future wife Marty, plus he actively advertised the therapeutic properties of the “drug” in his articles and lectures (he died from it).
The Nazis expelled the scientist from Austria and burned his books. Freud once joked: “What progress we have made! In the Middle Ages they would have burned me; nowadays they are content to burn my books.”
A few quotes from an outstanding scientist:
“The masses have never known the thirst for truth. They need illusions without which they cannot live.”
“It is almost impossible to carry a torch of truth through a crowd without burning someone’s beard.”
“Most people don’t really want freedom because it implies responsibility, and responsibility scares most people.”
“The first person who threw a curse instead of a stone was the creator of civilization.”
“A cultured person exchanged the possibility of happiness for guaranteed security.”
“The more flawless a person is on the outside, the more demons he has inside.”
“The task of making man happy was not included in the plan of creating the world.”
“We enter the world alone and leave it alone.”
1868 French writer Gaston Leroux was born.
1889 — In Paris, the construction of the Eiffel Tower has been completed.
1920 — the First winter campaign of the UNR Army ended, during which the army marched 2,500 km, fighting against the whites and reds, despite illness and cold, persevered and successfully completed the task.
1952 — Maria Montessori, Italian doctor, teacher, author of the famous pedagogical methodology, died.
1987 — the An-124 plane set a world record for the distance of a flight on a closed route (20,150.92 km).
1991 — Ukrainian pole vaulter Serhii Bubka set a world record in Japan, jumping 6 m and 7 cm.
1992 — The constitution of the Republic of Crimea was adopted.
1994 — The tunnel under the English Channel between France and Great Britain was solemnly opened – Eurotunnel.
