october 10 in history: what happened that day
In 1503, the monks of the Kremlin first received Russian vodka
In 1503, the monks of the Kremlin first received Russian vodka. It was originally used as an antiseptic.
In 1865, American John Wesley Hyatt patented a billiard ball made of celluloid. He was the first to find a synthetic material to replace previously used ivory balls and won $10,000 in the competition.
On this day, but in 1933, the world's first detergent went on sale in the United States.
In 2006, the social network Vkontakte was launched.
On October 10, the English physicist and chemist, who discovered the formula of water and “measured” the mass of the Earth, Henry Cavendish (1731); the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813); the Norwegian polar explorer, the first to cross Greenland on skis, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1922) Fridtjof Nansen (1861); the French writer (The Battle of Farsala, The Road of Flanders, etc.) Claude Simon (1913).
