september 22: what happened to that day

In the Russian Empire in 1764, verst poles were introduced - road signs showing the distance to postal settlements.

In 1839, in memory of the Patriotic War of 1812, the construction of a new Cathedral of Christ the Savior began in Moscow with the mediation of the architect Konstantin Ton.

In 1869, Austria issued the world’s first postcard.

And in 1986 in the United States began showing the comedy television series “Alph”. A total of 102 episodes were shot.

On September 22, the English physicist and chemist, who discovered electromagnetic induction, the creator of the generator Michael Faraday (1791); the Soviet anthropologist and anatomist, one of the founders of the Soviet anthropological school Viktor Bunak (1891); the Soviet linguist, lexicographer, compiler of an explanatory dictionary of the Russian language Sergey Ozhegov (1900); the second wife of Joseph Stalin, Hope Alliluev (1901).