october 15th in history: what happened
In Paris, the Queen Mother of France Catherine de’ Medici in 1581 presented to her guests the first ever public ballet – “The Queen’s Comic Ballet”
In Paris, the Queen Mother of France Catherine de’ Medici in 1581 presented her guests the first ever public ballet – “The Queen’s Comic Ballet”.
In 1806, the Baku Khanate was included in the Russian Empire.
On this day, but in 1908, the first short feature film in Russia “Ponyzova Volnitsa” (“Stenka Razin”) was released on film screens.
And in 1967, the construction of the monument “Motherland” in Volgograd was completed.
October 15 was born Italian mathematician and physicist Evangelista Torricelli (1608); Russian poet, prose writer, playwright Mikhail Lermontov (1814); Soviet writer, playwright, screenwriter, journalist Ilya Ilf (1897); American writer, critic, screenwriter, author of the novel The Godfather Mario Puzo (1920).
