Holidays 3 January 2018 - Wednesday

Events of the day:

1888 - American entrepreneur Martin Stone patented straw for cocktails made from paper (photo)

1934 - in the USSR successfully conducted an experiment to detect aircraft using radar method (photo)

1959 - completed its work Arctic station "Soviet" (photo)

1959 - Alaska took statehood and became the 49th US state (photo)

1977 - The first computer company Apple's (photo)

Birthday party:

On this day were born:

John Tolkien

Alexei Stakhanov

Grigoriy Mkrtchyan

Nikolai Rubtsov

Alexander Lazarev

Mel Gibson

Michael Schumacher

On this day, died:

Alisher Navoi

Constantine Ushinsky

Alois Schicklgruber

Jaroslav Hasek

Conrad Hilton

Suren Kasparian

Alexander Abdulov

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