January 19, 2011, it turned out 275 years from the birth James Watt (1736-1819)- the English inventor which name is given to the power unit – watt. The steam engine, created by Watt, belongs to the most outstanding inventions in the history of humankind.
In March 1960 Pavel Popovich, together with Yuri Gagarin was enrolled in the first group of cosmonauts. I think their paths similarity is not accidental. Each of them after receiving specialty - whether in school or in college - could stop, start a measured life.
June 4, 1775, by order of Empress Catherine II Russian troops occupied Zaporizhian Sich. On the second day, on the orders of a tsarist general Tekeli an ammunition, Cossack Regalia, wealth and archive of Zaporozhye military office were took away.
Some singers have glory after death, others - in life. But it was not crowned with rose petals but thorns. Dawn of the poetess was bright, and was darken only from an illness.
2010 year is the two hundred anniversary of the birth of the great Polish composer-romantic Frederic Chopin. "Oh, Chopin" - the joyful cries are heard. Though there are probably those who have no clue who it is.
Ivan Kotlyarevsky - the pride of Ukraine. Without him, we do not have Taras Shevchenko, and without Shevchenko, will we exist in the world as a nation! 240 years ago, in August 9, Ivan was born in the family of Petr Kotlyarevsky, the Cossack of Reshetilovska hundred. He was destined to become an outstanding Ukrainian writer who for the first time in Ukraine through his works spoke to Ukrainian in their native language, starting a new era in Ukrainian literature.
Larisa Semionovna Latynina is a famous Soviet gymnast. Larisa Latynina holds a lot of important Olympic records.
On April 12, 1961 the first man flew into space. It was a citizen of the Soviet Union Yuri Gagarin.
Sergey Nikolaevich Bulgakov (1871-1944) was a Russian religious philosopher, a professor, theologian, economist. In 1901-1906 he was a lecturer in Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
O.V. Kobelev (1860, Tsarskoye Selo - 30.09.1942, Kyiv, buried in the cemetery Lukianivka) - famous Kyiv architect, teacher, member of the St. Petersburg Union of Architects.
