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As a political figure, Indira Gandhi declared herself in 1955 when she joined the party leadership of the Indian National Congress: since 1959 she served as party president, in 1964 she became a member of the government of Lal Bahadur Shastri, and on...

Ukrainian historian from the city of Yuzhny in Kharkiv region Yuri Knorozov deciphered the Mayan script. Entered the history department of the Kharkov University. But he studied there for only 2 years. Further training was prevented by the start of the...

January 16, 27 BC Octavian was proclaimed a princeps at the Senate meeting and received the title "Augustus". From now on, he became known as Emperor Caesar Augustus, and the cult of the emperor became the state religion of Rome for the next four...

Nina Ricci, a French fashion designer of Italian origin, founder of the high fashion house Nina Ricci, was the daughter of a shoemaker and her name was Marie Adelaide Niely. When the girl was 12 years old, her father died, and the family was left...

On January 12, 1876, American writer Jack London was born in San Francisco. A beloved by millions of writers might not have been ... Back in 1875, a loud scandal arose in the American press: the pregnant mistress of the famous astrologer William Cheney...

On the night of January 13, 1972, stripping of conscious Ukrainians was carried out all over Ukraine. Among those arrested was the poet Vasily Stus. At Christmas, he went to Lviv. Together with friends went with a den. On the fateful night of January 12...

On January 11, 1935, American Amelia Mary Earhart began a flight across the Pacific Ocean. She is the first in the world alone to cover the distance from the Hawaiian Islands to Oakland, California. Trying to make such a single flight, so many pilots...

American politicians James Monroe and Robert Livingston in January 1803 went on a voyage to Paris to acquire Louisiana. Until the XIX century, it stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. Now here are 15 US states. From 1762...

On January 9, 1839, at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, physicist Arago presented a report on the invention by the artist Louis-Jacques Daguerre of the method of obtaining “non-vanishing images,” called daguerotype. Six months later...

At age 19, Hermann Hollerith was educated as a mining engineer at a college at Columbia University and later became an employee of the Bureau of the Census in Washington. John Billings, one of the Bureau’s consultants and the creator of the unified...