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| Isaac Newton was appointed director of the London mint with a huge salary for those days - 2000 pounds per year. |
| 1696 y. |
Isaac Newton was appointed director of the London Mint.At the time he was appointed just astronomical salaries - 2000 pounds per year.Despite the fact that, traditionally, the post is regarded as a sinecure, a scientist reacted to it with all seriousness.It is through his active leadership succeeded in a short time reminted all British coins.Tremendous work of Newton actually saved the economy, which is sinking deeper into chaos because of massive damage to money - from them, cut off pieces of w...
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| Leo Tolstoy began work on the novel "Anna Karenina". |
| 1873 y. |
On this day in 1873 Leo Tolstoy began work on the novel "Anna Karenina".The wife of the writer and his eldest son, Sergei remembered that that morning Tolstoy accidentally looked at a volume of Pushkin and read the unfinished fragment Guests gathered at the dacha."" That`s the way to write! "- Said Tolstoy.On the same evening, the writer has brought his wife a handwritten sheet of paper on which there was now a textbook phrase: "All was confusion in the Oblonskys.
Although the final versi...
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| Created recipe world`s most popular drink - Coca-Cola. |
| 1886 y. |
In March 1886 in Atlanta, Colonel John Pemberton, a pharmacist by training, trying to find a cure for headaches.To this end, he cooked the unusual color of caramel syrup.In the recipe of the drink were decoction of coca leaves, sugar and caffeine.Because of its effect drink has turned out quite stimulating.The syrup was sweet and thick, Pemberton quite appreciated taste of his creation.
He decided to sell it through a pharmacy "Jacobs".The first portions of syrup were sold right here at f...
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| Bank of England issued the first paper money with a new high degree of protection against forgery. |
| 1940 y. |
Bank of England issued the first paper money with a new high degree of protection against forgery.Since in the paper on which were printed bank notes, was introduced a thin metal filament.There was an event before Hitler`s Operation Flood Britain counterfeit paper money.
Fakes introduced to plunge into the chaos of the UK economy on the eve of the Battle of Britain ".The Nazis were able to produce absolutely indistinguishable from real money.But the realization of a subversive plan foiled...
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| In Lisbon, opened Europe`s longest bridge. |
| 1998 y. |
Top of the world exhibition "Expo 98 in Lisbon was opened the longest bridge in Europe - Vasco da Gama.Its opening was timed well, as the name suggests, to the 500 anniversary of the first travels of Vasco da Gama.Design of the bridge took years, but built it for 18 months - a record for installations of this kind.
This bridge connected the main bank of the river Tagus Portugal.Its total length is 17 thousand 185 kilometers, the length of water part - 10 kilometers.The width of the bridge...
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| First voyage of Magellan opened three most southerly island of the Marianas group. | | Archeologists in Crete have found the remains of the legendary Labyrinth - Palace Minotaur. | | The Roman emperor Constantine I declared Sunday a day of rest. | | It is believed that this day was founded Venice. | | Irakli I returned to Jerusalem, the great Christian relic - the True Cross. | | Germanischer King Frederick I was elected Staufen, surnamed Barbarossa. | | The troops of Frederick I Barbarossa captured Milan. | | In Florence after the coup d`etat "black Guelphs were sentenced in absentia to death of 15 leaders of the" white ", including Dante. | | In the ancient Scottish capital of Skåne in the reign of Robert the Bruce. | | Ivan I, in gratitude for his help in the brutal suppression of anti-Tatar uprising in Tver has received from the Khan Uzbek label on the great reign of Vladimir. | | Nicolaus Copernicus made his first planetary observation. | | A flotilla of 13 ships under the command of Don Pedro Alvares Cabral discovered land that is now called Brazil. | | Five years after the death of Niccolo Machiavelli in Rome, published his "History of Florence". | | In Russia was a monetary reform. | | In Moscow, came the first Russian printed book "The Apostle". | | A representation of the tragedy of Sophocles` "Oedipus Rex" in Vicenza has opened the theater "Olimpico". | | Failed attempt to depose the king of the boyars Basil Shuisky. | | Congregation of the Index has banned all texts, accepting the truth of Copernicus. | | Isaac Newton was appointed director of the London mint with a huge salary for those days - 2000 pounds per year. | | Johann Bottger handed the office of the court records of his experiments to obtain porcelain. | | Published the first printed textbook on geography in Russian. | | Decree of Peter I was set up by the Senate. | | An "Boston Massacre". | | In London, published a book by Adam Smith`s Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. | | English astronomer William Herschel discovered Uranus. | | Mozart gave horn Joseph Ignaz Leytgebu original manuscript of the score concerto in E flat major for horn and string orchestra. | | Napoleon Bonaparte was appointed to operations in Italy, the commander of the French army. | | Carl Gauss realized how to construct a regular 17-gon. | | American, Eli Whitney received a patent for the invention of a machine for quick and effective for separating cotton fibers from seeds, husk and other impurities. | | Killed Paul I. | | Franz Joseph Gall presented the book "Study of the nervous system in general and the brain in particular.". | | Frederick William III established a military award for "Iron Cross". | | In Moscow, the grand opening of the monument to Minin and Pozharsky. | | The Englishman William Church patented the first printing typesetting machine. | | Franz Liszt successful debut in Paris. | | There was only one author`s concert of Franz Schubert. | | France passed a law creating the Foreign Legion. | | Saw the light of Hugo`s novel "Notre Dame". | | In the ballet the first time used a dress called "pack". | | It approved the Regulations on Civil uniforms. | | First performed the Violin Concerto in E minor by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. | | Honore de Balzac was married to the countess Evelina Hanska. | | The premiere of the opera by Giuseppe Verdi`s "Rigoletto.". | | Textile workers in New York marched through the streets, protesting against low wages and poor working conditions. | | Alexander II abolished serfdom in Russia, issuing a manifesto on the liberation of the peasants. | | Promulgated by the Manifesto of Alexander II to abolish serfdom. | | Signed an agreement on Russia`s sale of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands to the United States of America. | | Naturalist Jean-Pierre Armand David in China gave the skin of an animal previously unknown to Europeans - the panda. | | In Yellowstone National Park opened its first U.S.. | | Remington started production of the first typewriter. | | Leo Tolstoy began work on the novel "Anna Karenina". | |
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| The premiere of the opera by Georges Bizet`s "Carmen". | | Alexander Graham Bell patented his invention of the telephone. | | Pavel Yablochkov received a patent for the invention of "electric candle". | | American Emile Berliner created a microphone. | | At the Bolshoi stage the premiere of Tchaikovsky`s ballet "Swan Lake". | | At the meeting of the French Academy was held Europe`s first public demonstration of the phonograph by Thomas Edison. | | Killed Alexander II, the Emperor of Russia since 1855. | | Robert Koch spoke at the evening session of the Berlin Physiological Society with a sensational announcement: he was able to identify the bacteria that cause tuberculosis. | | Created recipe world`s most popular drink - Coca-Cola. | | Almon Stroudzher patented the first automatic telephone exchange. | | In Paris the opening ceremony of the Eiffel Tower. | | Businessman John Holding was founded in his hometown club Liverpool. | | Established prize for the best hockey team - the Stanley Cup. | | Swiss watch company Longines has registered its logo. | | In Paris the first ever public demonstration of a movie. | | The world first heard of psychoanalysis. | | The German chemist Felix Hoffmann of Bayer`s received a patent on aspirin. | | Following the leading countries of Europe and Japan and Russia, the United States have legalized the "gold standard". | | Decree of Emperor Nicholas II were created submarine forces of the Baltic Sea with the first connection basing submarines in the naval base at Libau. | | Frenchwoman Elise de Laroche became the first woman pilot. | | In Moscow the first performance of Russian folk choir Pyatnickogo. | | Roald Amundsen informed the world about his discovery of the South Pole. | | Denmark is officially placed under the control of the southern United States Virgin Islands. | | In Moscow on Nikitsky Boulevard opened Printing House, now - the Central House of Journalists. | | Released the first issue of the American magazine «Time». | | Robert Goddard launched the world`s first liquid fuel rocket. | | An article of Josef Stalin`s "Dizzy with success". | | Newspapers Pravda and Izvestia published an article, pamphlet, Maxim Gorky`s "Who do you," masters of culture "? | | Bank of England issued the first paper money with a new high degree of protection against forgery. | | Washington opened National Art Gallery. | | Winston Churchill called the dividing line of Europe "Iron Curtain". | | United States detonated a hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll. | | The American company Ampex demonstrated the first in the history of the recorder. | | Commercially available first Barbie doll. | | In the Soviet Union formed the first group of astronauts. | | By decision of the UN was established by the World Consumer Rights Day. | | Closing the prison Alcatraz. | | To the Moon launched the American automatic interplanetary station "Ranger 9". | | Soviet specialists have launched the first artificial satellite of the moon. | | Mauritius gained independence from Britain. | | Entry into force of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. | | On the screens out of the country Vladimir Motyl film "White Sun of the Desert". | | In the UK, the company Philips, Sony and Polygram have demonstrated the first CD. | | Space probe "Vega-1 completed the program of studies of Halley`s Comet. | | Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as the only president in the history of the USSR. | | In London, the museum was opened Sherlock Holmes. | | The beginning of the conflict in Transnistria. | | Lars von Trier has made a sensational manifesto "The vow of chastity. | | In Lisbon, opened Europe`s longest bridge. | | Elected President of Russia Vladimir Putin. | | In Jerusalem, opened a new Museum of the Holocaust. | |
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