october 18th in history: what happened

On the island of Kotlin Peter I in 1723 was founded the fortress of Kronstadt, the main base of the Baltic fleet.

In 1896, the first comics appeared in the New York Journal.

On this day, but in 1941, Soviet intelligence officer Richard Sorge was arrested in Tokyo.

And in 1947, at the Kapustin Yar test site, the first launch of a long-range ballistic missile in the USSR was made

On October 18, the scientist, writer and memoirist, one of the founders of Russian agronomic science Andrey Bolotov (1738), the German chemist who discovered and named ozone Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799), the Russian electrical engineer, the creator of the incandescent lamp Alexander Lodygin (1847), the Soviet pilot, Colonel-General of Aviation, one of the rescuers of the Chelyuskin, Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Kamanin (1908) were born.