Other events of the day: 1728 - James Cook, English navigator and cartographer, was born.
1745 - Composer Maxim Berezovsky was born.
1782 - Violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini was born.
1811 - Isaac Singer, founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, was born.
1855 - breeder Ivan Michurin was born.
1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, was born, after whom Teddy Bear was named.
1873 - Joseph Glidden patented wire.
1886 - Artist Robert Falk, member of "Jack of Diamonds", was born.
1892 - Solomon Yudubin, Belarusian graphic artist and ethnographer, was born.
1898 - Zinaida Armoliva, creator of the first Soviet penicillin, was born.
1899 - Actor Mikhail Zaharov was born.
1900 - Singer Lydia Ruslanova was born.
1901 - Sergei Rachmaninov's Second Concerto for Piano and Orchestra was performed in full for the first time in Moscow.
1904 - New York's subway opens. 1918 - Irkutsk University was founded.
1927 - The Working Youth Theater, the future Lankom, opens in Moscow.
1959 - A photograph of the far side of the Moon taken by Luna-3 is published for the first time.
1982 - China's population exceeds one billion people.
1984 - The Baikal-Amur main line was put into operation.
2007 - The first Russian Wikipedia wiki conference was held in St. Petersburg.
Black Cat Day - UK.
Mentoring Day - UK.
American Beer Day - USA.
Parmesan Day - USA.
Navy Day - USA.
National Flag Day - Greece Mandatory Lawyer Day - Canada.
Harbor Day - Algeria.
Independence Day - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.