october 21st in history: what happened
Portuguese navigator Fernand Magellan in 1520 discovered the strait, later called Magellanov In 1824, the Englishman Joseph Aspdin patented Portland cement
Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan in 1520 discovered the strait, later called Magellan
In 1824, Englishman Joseph Aspdin patented Portland cement.
On this day, but in 1858, the cancan was first performed in Paris.
And in 1975, the automatic interplanetary station Venera-9 became the first satellite launched into orbit of Venus.
On October 21, Russian military and statesman, Decembrist, founder of the Union of Welfare Alexander Muravyov (1792); Swedish chemist and engineer, inventor of dynamite, founder of the Nobel Prize Alfred Nobel (1833); Soviet artist, member of Kukryniks Mikhail Kupriyanov (1903); American mathematician and popularizer of science Martin Gardner (1914).
