september 28 in history: what happened
In 1618, the world’s first pawnshop was opened in Brussels
In 1618, the world’s first pawnshop was opened in Brussels.
In 1904, in St. Petersburg, the performance “Uriel Acosta” by Karl Gutskov opened the Academic Drama Theater named after V. F. Komissarzhevskaya.
On this day, but in 1972, during the television broadcast of the hockey match of the USSR – Canada, commentator Nikolai Ozerov said his famous phrase “We do not need such hockey!”. The Canadians scored the winning puck 34 seconds before the end of the game, winning a series of games 4-3 with one draw.
In 2008, the first night race in the Formula 1 class took place.
On September 28, the French mathematician, naturalist, physicist, astronomer, surveyor Pierre Louis de Maupertuis (1698); the French writer and translator Prosper Mérime (1803); the French chemist who received fluoride, Nobel Prize laureate (1906) Henri Moissant (1852); theater director, teacher, people’s artist of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor Georgy Tovstonogov (1915).
