Today is June 19, 2018

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Holidays

• Emancipation Day (Day of Freedom ) in the U.S.
  Actually, the international day of women's emancipation is celebrated May 30. Presumably, the basis of the holiday was a historic event — on this day in 1431 executed Jeanne d'Arc —...

Outstanding events

• Greek scholar Eratosthenes of Cyrene world first calculated the radius of the Earth
  Eskperiment Erastofena Kirenskogo Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276 BC — 194 BC) — Greek mathematician, astronomer, geographer and poet. From an early age he lived in Alexandria, where he...
• President Abraham Lincoln passed a law abolishing slavery throughout the United States
  Abraham Lincoln The victory of the North over the slave-owning South in the Civil War in the United States in the years 1861-1865 marked the end of importation of slaves into the country. on...
• In the U.S. on charges of spying for the Soviet Union executed wife Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
  Julius and Ethel Rosenberg April 5 1951 American physicist Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel were sentenced to death for the atomic espionage for the Soviet Union. The Rosenberg Case ...
• The wedding of Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller
  Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe With playwright Arthur Miller met in 1950 in Hollywood. «He got me that smart. His mind is stronger than any of the men I've ever known. He understands my...
• In Leningrad in Arts Square, a monument to AS Pushkin
  monument to Alexander Pushkin in St. Petersburg In the 1940s in the Soviet Union, the first rounds of all-union competition for the best project of the monument in Leningrad (now St....
• The American traveler Steve Fossett began the world's first single nonstop trip around the world in a balloon
  Steve Fossett The American millionaire Steve Fossett ekstremal gained popularity after swimming across the English Channel. Then there were the single multi-day ski transitions, ring auto...