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It is a widespread story that on October 12, 1960, during the meeting of the 15th UN General Assembly, First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev began to knock a shoe on the table. On that day, there was a discussion of the...

On October 8, 1967 in the mountain forests of Bolivia near the village of La Higuera, after a short firefight, he was wounded and arrested by the Bolivian soldiers Ernesto Che Guevara. In 1965, for all Cubans, the sudden disappearance of their...

At one of the exhibitions of abstract art, John Lennon met the eldest of seven years, the Japanese artist Yoko Ono. “Some kind of nonsense, not creativity,” he shared his impressions with his wife Cynthia Lennon in the evening. Yoko Ono will write in...

David Kunst left home in the town of Vasek, Minnesota on June 20, 1970 with his brother John. Having reached New York, the brothers went to Lisbon and continued their journey to the south of Europe - in Monaco, they met with Princess Grace, in Italy...

On October 4, 1993, the Norwegian traveler Thor Heyerdahl became an honorary doctor of Kiev State University. Over the past 30 years, 51 outstanding scientists, educators, scientists and politicians from 21 countries of the world have become doctors of...

On October 3, 1981, in the North Irish city of Belfast, in Maze Prison, an unprecedented protest was over - the hunger strike of Irish patriots. It lasted 7 months and killed 10 people. The first to die was Bobby Sands, one of the leaders of the Irish...

On October 2, 1980, the Kiev City Court passed a sentence on Ukrainian poet Vasily Stus. The hearing was closed. “When Stus met with his assigned lawyer, I immediately felt that Medvedchuk was a man of the Komsomol aggressive type,” dissident Yevgeny...

In 1958, 17 years old Brazilian Pele arrived in Sweden with the national team for the World Cup. When he returned home, his name was already known to the whole world. The real name of the greatest football player of all time is Edson Arantis do...

In 1946, American photographer Richard Miller made a series of pin-up images for the US armed forces. One of the models was the 19-year-old Norma Jean Doherty. Later, Miller stated that he could not even imagine how much his photographs with Merlin...

The artist from Zaporozhye Mikhail Dyachenko created a series of art posters, which depicted the military elite of Ukraine. He restored the faces of those figures of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1921, whose photographs were preserved in poor quality...