Holidays 31 December 2018 - Monday

Events of the day:

1898 - opened Russia's first long-distance telephone line, connecting Moscow and St. Petersburg (photo)

1943 - during world war II, Soviet troops completely liberated Zhitomir from Nazi invaders (photo)

1968 - perfect test flight of the world's first supersonic passenger aircraft Tu-144 (photo)

1999 - BN Yeltsin announced his voluntary resignation from the post of the President of the Russian Federation and handed over power to his successor V. Putin (photo)

Birthday party:

On this day were born:

Pierre Charles de Villeneuve

Emile Loubet

Giovanni Boldini

Vincas Kudirka

Henri Matisse

Elizabeth Zarubin

Sergei Osipov

Anatoly Kuznetsov

Semen Farad

Anthony Hopkins

Connie Willis

Ludmila science fiction Pakhomov

Regina Dubovitskaya

Tsiskaridze

On this day, died:

Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

Catherine of Braganza

Gustave Courbet

Gregory Myasoedov

Leo Oshanin

Lydia Vertinskaya

30 December 2018

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