october 20 in history: what happened that day

In 1714, Peter I issued a decree banning stone construction throughout Russia, except for St. Petersburg.

In 1857 Alexander II approved the model of the first Russian stamps.

On this day, but in 1911, the first meeting of the association “The Workshop of Poets”, which later created the poetic direction of acmeism, took place.

In 1953, Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 was published.

October 20 was born French poet, one of the founders of symbolism Arthur Rimbaud (1854); Soviet military pilot, honored test pilot of the USSR. Twice Hero of the Soviet Union Sultan Amet-Khan (1920); theater and film actor, theater director, teacher, People's Artist of the USSR Igor Gorbachev (1927); Russian journalist, publicist, TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov (1963).