november 11 in history: what happened that day

Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe discovered a supernova explosion in the constellation Cassiopeia in 1572.

In 1765, on the initiative of Catherine II, the Imperial Free Economic Society was founded to encourage agriculture and housing development in Russia, one of the oldest in the world and the first scientific economic society in Russia.

On this day, but in 1842, a new type of beer - Pilsner - was served for the first time in Pilsen.

In 1936, for the first time in the world, the weather forecast was broadcast on television.

On November 11, Russian metallurgist, creator of the Obukhov plant, inventor of guns Pavel Obukhov (1820); writer and thinker, classic of Russian literature Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821); French writer, author of books about Arsene Lupin Maurice LeBlanc (1864); Yakut Soviet writer, philologist, public figure, founder of Yakut literature Platon Oiunsky (1893).