Holidays and commemorative dates:
International Day of Planetariums – earlier this holiday was celebrated on the second Sunday of March. However, from 2024, the celebration was moved to May 7. This date was chosen for the centenary of the beginning of regular work of the first such object – the Zeiss Planetarium in the German Museum in Munich.
Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day and Children’s Depression Awareness Day – these two events are celebrated in order to draw attention to the problems of mental health of children and the competent care and care of minors with special mental health needs.
Events on this day:
1785 — for the first time in the world, people crossed the English Channel in a hot air balloon. Frenchman Jean-Pierre Francois Blanchard and American John Jeffries flew over the strait.
1824 — the premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony took place in Vienna.
1875 — the signing of the Russian-Japanese treaty on the exchange of territories, according to which the Kuril Islands were transferred from the Russian Empire to Japan in exchange for the island of Sakhalin.
1887 — American Thomas Stevens completed the first round-the-world trip by bicycle. The journey lasted more than three years. Stevens has driven 13,500 miles.
1945 — at 2 hours 41 minutes in Reims, in the headquarters of General Dwight Eisenhower, the act of unconditional surrender of Germany was signed.
The text of the act was developed by a group of American officers led by Colonel Phillimore. The surrender of Nazi Germany took effect on May 8 at 23:01 CET (May 9 at 01:01 Moscow time).
Separate German units began to surrender already on April 28, and on May 2 the Berlin garrison capitulated.
Stalin did not recognize this act, demanding a new signing of it in Berlin captured by the Red Army, and on the night of May 8-9, a second signing ceremony of the act of unconditional surrender of fascist Germany took place in the suburbs of Berlin.
1946 — “Tokyo Telecommunications Company” was founded in Tokyo, later renamed “Sony”.
1954 — The USA, France and Great Britain refused to accept the USSR into NATO.
1985 — the beginning of the “dry law” in the USSR. The resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU on measures to overcome drunkenness and alcoholism was issued. It was the largest anti-alcohol campaign in the history of the USSR.
1995 — a coin worth 200,000 rubles was issued by the National Bank of Ukraine.
1996 — the premiere of Luc Besson’s film “The Fifth Element” took place at the Cannes Film Festival.
2008 — an earthquake with a magnitude of 3 on the Richter scale occurred in the Black Sea. The epicenter of the earthquake was recorded near Zmiiny Island. Weak tremors were felt in Odessa.
2016 — the world’s first full-fledged monument to Hetman Ivan Mazepa was opened in Poltava.
