october 19 in history: what happened to that day

The Embassy of the Russian tsar, headed by boyar Vasily Buturlin, in 1653 went to Pereyaslavl to take the oath from the Zaporozhye Cossacks.

In 1845, in the large conference hall of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, under the chairmanship of Vice Admiral Fyodor Petrovich Litke, the first meeting of the Russian Geographical Society, established in August, was held.

On this day, but in 1867, Nikolai Teleshov was granted a patent in France for the project of an aircraft with a pulsating engine. It was one of the world’s first jet aircraft projects.

And in 1918, the Labor Commune of the Volga Germans was formed, after 5 years it became the Autonomous Republic of the Volga Germans and liquidated in 1941

On October 19, an American businessman was born, who patented the world's first automatic telephone exchange (ATS) Elmon Brown Strowger (1839); one of the founders of cinema, the founder of the French film industry and film director Auguste Lumière (1862); a teacher of mathematics at the secondary school No. 11 in Yoshkar-Ola, Hero of Socialist Labor (1968), twice a holder of the Order of Lenin (1960, 1968) Taisia Alexandrova (1909); Mexican actress, singer and TV presenter Veronica Castro (1952).