June 11: Franklin Stove, Pereshchepinsky Treasure and "Alien"

June 11, 1742 Benjamin Franklin invented an economical oven - an economical small-sized self-contained oven for a house, which he improved in 1770.
1895 - on the route Paris - Bordeaux - Paris held the world's first motor racing. The average speed of the winner Emil Levasser, who overcame the distance in 48 hours 48 minutes, was 24 km/h. At the end of the competition, he said: "It was insane! I drove at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour!".

1888 - a monument to Bogdan Khmelnitsky was unveiled in Kiev on Sofia Square as part of the celebration of the 900th anniversary of the adoption of Christianity. The idea of ​​creating the monument arose among the public on the initiative of the historian, professor of the Kiev University Nikolai Kostomarov in the 1840s.
1898 - China launched the "Reform of a hundred days", initiated by the Emperor Guangxi and is aimed at reforming the army, developing rail transport, industry and creating mail.

1912 - near the village of Malaya Pereschepina of the Constantinople district of Poltava province (now Novosanzharsky district, Poltava region), a memorial complex of more than 800 items, identified by scientists as the grave of Khan Kubrat, was accidentally found.
1930 - American zoologist William Bob and engineer Otis Burton descended on the bathysphere they built to a depth of 400 meters. Two years later they reached a depth of 900 meters, but due to the fact that the bathysphere descended from the ship on a steel cable and there was a real threat of its breakage, subsequent experiments were stopped.

1955 - During the 24-hour Le Mans race in the French Republic, the worst car accident in history occurred: 84 dead and 120 wounded.
1965 - Queen Elizabeth II awarded the Beatles musicians the Order of the British Empire.

1982 - on the screens of the US there was a film by Steven Spielberg "Alien". The film received four Oscar awards, two Golden Globe awards, and its revenues from the rental and sale of video tapes of this tape exceeded $ 700,000,000.
1991 - the firm "Microsoft" released the operating system MS DOS 5.0.