october 14 in history: what happened to that day

French writer Victor Hugo married Adele Fouchet in 1822.

In 1843, Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" was performed for the first time - in Potsdam, at the premiere of the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream", based on the play by William Shakespeare.

On this day, but in 1883, the French capitalist Julius Guzhon opened at the Rogozhskaya outpost in Moscow workshops that made wire. In 1918, the plant that grew on their basis was nationalized and later renamed the "Hammer and Sickle".

In 1926, Alan Milne’s book Winnie the Pooh was published in London.

On October 14, the Scottish mathematician and doctor of medicine Robert Simson (1687); the Russian chemist who initiated scientific aeronautics Yakov Zakharov (1765); the Belgian physicist, inventor of the stroboscope Joseph Plateau (1801); the Soviet microbiologist and epidemiologist, creator of antibiotics, academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR Zinaida Yermolyeva (1897).