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| In the Paris auction house Drouot completely fails exhibition and sale of paintings by Paul Gauguin. |
| 1895 y. |
Most of his life, Paul Gauguin lived in poverty, depression and illness.His work often is not marketable, the artist dragged out a miserable existence, he broke with his family, wandered.For several years he lived in Brittany, in Panama and the island of Martinique, in 1888, together with the Van Gogh worked in Arles.The rejection of contemporary society have awakened interest in Gauguin`s traditional way of life.In 1891 in Paris hosted an exhibition of paintings Gauguin, and the means to sell t...
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| For the first time was carried out by air mail delivery. |
| 1911 y. |
Airmail - kind of postal service in which the postal items are transported by air using the aircraft.Today airmail most modern and used form of air mail.Delivery of letters in the air took place long before the appearance as a regular airmail service available to the public.
Thus, the appearance in 1903, airplanes immediately aroused the interest on their attraction to the carriage of mail.The first official flight took place on February 18, 1911 in India from Allahabad to Naini Naini, du...
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| In Moscow, Bryansk railway station opened today in Kiev. |
| 1918 y. |
Moscow - the largest railway hub in Russia and one of the largest in the world.Kiev railway station is one of nine railway stations in Moscow.This is a monument of architecture and engineering.Decision on the construction of the Kiev railway station was taken in 1912, the year of the century the Battle of Borodino.
Given the location of the station at the beginning of the road from Moscow to the Borodino, and for the unloading of traffic at the request of municipal authorities in the inve...
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| The American astronomer Clyde William Tombaugh discovered the planet Pluto. |
| 1930 y. |
Pluto, until recently considered the ninth planet of the solar system, located 40 times farther from the Sun than Earth, has long remained completely unexplored.Its existence is predicted theoretically by the American astronomer Percival Lowell in 1915.After 15 years after the planet discovered member of the observatory Lovella Clyde Tombaugh.Clyde Tombaugh was born on February 4, 1906 on a farm near Stritora in Illinois.
He became interested in astronomy at age 12 when his uncle, Lee, am...
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| In the Caribbean Sea sank the French submarine Surcouf. |
| 1942 y. |
"Surcouf - French submarine, Launched October 18, 1929, was the largest submarine in the world before the construction of the Japanese submarines I-400. It was designed for cruising on the ocean lanes of action and in addition to torpedoes, to conventional submarines, was armed with two 203-mm guns, carried a seaplane designed for reconnaissance and fire-art corrections.
In early February 1942 "Surcouf", fulfilling orders, was to arrive in Bermuda.
But come late, getting on the roa...
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