THE CALENDAR
22 January 2020 - Wednesday
Events of the day:
1506 -. Pope Julius II created the Vatican service of the Swiss Guards, who has since guarded the papal residence and pontiffs (photo) 1630 - Indian chief Kvodekuayn from South America donated English colonists popcorn bag. Now this day is considered the birthday of popcorn (photo) 1861 - French explorer Henri Muo in the jungles of Cambodia, was discovered a giant Hindu temple complex of Angkor Wat (photo) 1904 - based Zaporizhzhya Regional Universal Scientific Library named after M. Gorky (photo) 1905 - "Bloody Sunday" - the dispersal of peaceful marches in St. Petersburg, which served as the beginning of the First Russian revolution (photo) 1969 - Second Lieutenant of the Soviet army, Viktor Ilyin assassinated the Secretary General of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev (photo) 1980 - for his human rights activities of the Soviet physicist and academician Andrei Sakharov was exiled to Gorky (photo) 1990 - court sentenced Robert Morris for the first computer "worm" created by him, to paralyze the work of six thousand computers in the US (photo) 2002 - stopped broadcasting TV 6 - one of the first private television channels in Russia (photo) Birthday party:
Antonina, Paul Zahar Peter, Philip
Current time and date
18:40:40 22-01-2020
