october 7 in history: what happened that day
In England in 1806 patented the first copy paper
In 1806, the first copy paper was patented in England.
In 1919, the oldest airline was founded, which still retains its original name – the Dutch KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines).
On this day, but in 1959, the Luna-3 spacecraft made its first flyby of the moon. The device took the first pictures of its back side and transmitted the images to Earth.
In 1982, the musical Cats by English composer Andrew Lloyd Webber premiered in New York. In September 2000, his last performance, the 7485th, took place on Broadway.
On October 7, the merchant of the 1st guild, the founder of the first Russian joint-stock bank (1864) Grigory Eliseev (1804); Soviet poetess, translator, journalist, war correspondent Margarita Aliger (1915); Russian mathematician, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Viktor Matrosov (1950); Russian President Vladimir Putin (1952) were born.
