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Today
Telegraph
Today in many countries around the world celebrated the now traditional beautiful spring holiday – the Day of snowdrop.
Holidays:
The snowdrop day.
Anniversary of the victory in Playa girón.
Holiday Heavenly Empress Matsu.
Story:
1943 Began an armed revolt of the prisoners of the Warsaw ghetto against the Nazis.
1970 rolled off the first car “VAZ-2101”.
Born on this day:
1492 Pietro Aretino, Italian writer of the Renaissance.
1957 Bronislav Vinogrodsky sinologist, translator, writer, public figure.
1772 David Ricardo was a British economist, a classic of political economy.
Died:
1822 – Platon Zubov Russian statesman, the last favourite of the Empress Catherine II.
1824 – George Byron, English romantic poet.
1882 – Charles Darwin, English naturalist, author of the modern theory of evolution.
1906 – Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel laureate .
1967 – Konrad Adenauer, German statesman, first Chancellor of Germany (1949-1963).
2004 – Sergei Zalygin Soviet writer and public figure, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Birthday:
Gregory, Ivan, Paul, Peter, Of Sebastian, Jacob.