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september 19 in history: what happened to that day

Captain Martyn Spanberg in 1739 on ships built in Kamchatka reached Japan, where by order of Empress Anna Ioannovna got acquainted with its political system, examined the ports and took the first steps to establish trade relations

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september 19 in history: what happened to that day

Captain Martyn Spanberg in 1739 on the ships built in Kamchatka reached Japan, where by order of Empress Anna Ioannovna got acquainted with its political system, examined the ports and took the first steps to establish trade relations.

In 1846, New Jersey hosted the first officially recorded baseball game in the United States.

On this day, but in 1920, the Sovnarkom of the RSFSR formed the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for the Elimination of Illiteracy.

In 1974, Canadian engineer Don Bateman applied for a patent for a device that warned the pilot about the proximity of the earth

On September 19, the French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher and writer Blaise Pascal (1623) was born; the German pharmacist who discovered morphine Friedrich Surturner (1783); composer, conductor, head of one of the best Soviet jazz orchestras Alexander Varlamov (1904); Soviet and Russian cartoonist, cartoonist, cartoonist, book designer Oleg Tesler (1938).

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