Today is August 18, 2017

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Holidays

• Russian Air Fleet Day
  Russian Air Fleet Day is celebrated annually on the third Sunday of August at Based on the Resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation ? 3564-1 from September 28...
• Day of the Air Force of the Republic of Belarus
  Today is the feast of its military one of the most important units of the Armed Forces Belarus. Day of the Air Force staff celebrate not only the Air Force, but the Defense Forces. This...
• Border Guards Day of Kazakhstan
  18 August celebrate their professional holiday, the border guards of Kazakhstan. On this day in 1992, President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a decree "On the formation of the border troops." ...
• Day health care workers in Tajikistan
  Doctors Tajikistan celebrate their professional holiday 18 August. It is dedicated to the birthday of the genius of the Tajik-Persian scholar, philosopher and physician Abu Ali Ibn Sina, better...
• Science Day in Thailand
  Today Science Day is celebrated in Thailand — a country in Southeast East Asia, located on the Malay Peninsula and Indochina. The word "Thai", which was the name of the country,...
• Dance Festival panevritmii
  Panevritmiya (Panevritmia) — this is a sacral dance, which connects the a movement, music and song. Artists are moving in pairs in a circle, in which are inscribed still alive five rays. ...

Outstanding events

• In Paris, the French held the wedding of Princess Margaret of Valois and Henry King of Navarre
  wedding of Henry of Navarre and Marguerite de Valois France the second half of the 16th century was engulfed in a civil war that broke out between Catholics and Protestants, Calvinists...
• In St. Petersburg, inaugurated a monument to Peter I («The Bronze Horseman" )
  monument to Peter I in St. Petersburg As if the rumble of thunder- hard-voiced galloping shocked by the bridge. And the moon illuminated by the pale, stretched out his hand in the sky, For ...
• Based Russian Geographical Society
  emblem Russian Geographical Society In the middle of the 19th century, rapidly developing Russian economy was in dire need of reliable geographical information about Russia and adjacent...
• Vladimir Nabokov published in the United States his famous novel "Lolita"
  in Adrian Lyne's film, released in 1997 year, Lolita played the young actress Dominique Swain 18 August in 1958 in the U.S. was a novel «Lolita» writer brought huge success. enormously...
• Produced the first photographs of the lunar surface with the American lunar orbit — " Lunar Orbiter 1"
  Lunar Orbiter-1 In 1960, NASA initiated a program for the development of large spacecraft "Apollo", able to deliver a man on the moon and carry out detailed studies of the lunar surface. In...