october 17: what happened to that day

Mikhail Lomonosov in 1738 sent from Marburg to St. Petersburg his first scientific work “On the Transformation of a Solid into a Liquid.”.

In 1825, the premiere of Ferenc Liszt’s one-act opera Don Sancho, or the Castle of Love, took place in Paris. The composer was not yet 14 years old.

On this day, but in 1897, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky announced the construction of a wind tunnel.

And in 1902, the first Cadillac car was released in Detroit.

On October 17, the French composer, creator of the French comic opera Pierre Monsigny (1729); the Russian and Soviet geographer, oceanographer, cartographer, president of the Geographical Society of the USSR (1917-1931) Yuli Shokalsky (1856); the Soviet musicologist, music critic, philosopher, editor Andrei Rimsky-Korsakov (1878); the Soviet animated cameraman Mikhail Druyan (1911).