1045 - in Novgorod began construction of St. Sophia Cathedral (photo)
1779 - Danish physicist Hans Oersted discovered electromagnetic waves (photo)
1895 - in Moscow sisters Gnesin founded the first in the Russian Empire, a music school for children today "Russian Academy of music Gnesin." (photo)
1910 - in France in the club pilots after training and passing exams, received his aviator pilot Mikhail Yefimov, becoming thus, a certified first in Russia pilot (photo)
1919 - Petrograd play "Don Carlo" opened Bolshoi Drama theater. Gorky, now BDT them. GA BDT (photo)
1947 - the Decree of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium "On banning marriages between Soviet citizens and foreigners" (photo)
1989 - complete withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan (photo)
1994 - officially established Russian Standard of the President - a symbol of presidential power RF (photo)
2013 - in the Urals, in the vicinity of Chelyabinsk meteorite fell, the biggest since the fall of the Tunguska meteorite (1908) (photo)
