Holidays 12 January 2018 - Friday

Events of the day:

1820 - founded royal astronomical society in London (photo)

1936 - based voluntary sports society railroad "locomotive" (photo)

1945 - Soviet troops launched a full-scale offensive against Nazi Germany - the beginning of "operation Vistula-Oder" (photo)

1950 - after a slight break in the USSR, by the Decree of the presidium of the Supreme Council, re-introduced the death penalty for treason and espionage (photo)

1998 - in Paris, 19 countries have signed the protocol on ban (photo)

2004 human cloning year - the largest at that time, ocean liner "Queen Mary 2" makes its maiden voyage across the Atlantic ocean (photo)

2010 - on the island of Haiti was a major earthquake, in which, according to official figures, killed 222 570 (photo)

Birthday party:

On this day were born:

Charles Perrault

Johann Pestalozzi

Mikhail Speransky

Eugene Louis Lami

Jack London

Igor Kurchatov

Sergei Korolev

Jean Delannoy

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Raimonds Pauls

Vladimir Mulyavin

Haruki Murakami

Gunde Svan

Renata Litvinova

On this day, died:

Pierre de Fermat

Giovanni Boldini

Vladimir Petlyakov

Agatha Christie

Alexander Stolper

William Hewlett

Gennady Bachinskii

Elena Obraztsova

11 January 2018

13 January 2018