Daily Calendar _ June 5

The 156th day of the year, 209 days left until the New Year.

Church Calendar:

Holy Damian, former king Demetrius, of Garejeli, the one who said "You are the vineyard" (1157); Saint John I, Archbishop of Mtskheta and All Iberia (IV); Righteous Apostles, King Mirian and Queen Nanas (IV )*; Saint Michael the Confessor, Bishop of Svinade (821); Saint Martyr Michael of Sabatsmid (685-705).

Born:

1555 _ Rodríguez de Silva Velázquez, Spanish painter. Died 1660.

1846 — Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish writer, author of historical novels. Died 1916.

1858 — Pier Adolfo Tirindelli, Italian violinist, composer, teacher. Died 1937.

1877 — Georg Sedov, Russian polar explorer. Tried to reach the North Pole by dog ​​sled, but died on the way.

1882 — Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer.

1899 — Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer.

1933 - Tengiz Chantladze, Georgian actor. Died 1988

1934 — Maria Bieshu, Moldovan singer, laureate of the USSR State and Lenin Prizes.

1935 _ Kakhi Kavsadze, actor, People's Artist of Georgia. Died 2021.

1943 — Rafael, Spanish singer and actor.

1958 - Soso Jachvliani, Georgian actor, director, athlete. Died 2024.

1976 — Sage Stallone, American film actor.

Died:

1918 — Niko Pirosmanashvili, Georgian self-taught artist. Born around 1862.

1765 — Edward Jung, English poet, born 1683.

1813 — Stepan Degtyarev, Russian composer, conductor. Born 1766.

1821 — Napoleon Bonaparte. Born 1769.

1852 — Hadji Murad, a member of the Caucasian mountaineer liberation movement, Shamil's deputy. Born in the 1890s.

1902 — Francis Bret Hart, American writer.

1942 — Nikolai Oleinikov, a Russian writer who was labeled an "enemy of the people" and later rehabilitated. Born in 1898.

1949 — Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet and playwright. Author of the famous play "The Blue Bird". Born in 1862.

1995 — Mikhail Botvinnik, world chess champion.

2022 - Temur Chkheidze, Georgian director. Born in 1943.

Events:

1525 — Peasants' uprising in southern Germany suppressed.

1581 — Ivan Fyodorov's calendar was published in the city of Ostroga. Each month began with a poem dedicated to that month. Their author was the Belarusian poet Andrei Rimsha.

1751 — Portuguese Foreign Minister Sebastian Rombal issued a decree according to which permission for auto-da-fe was to be given only to the government.

1816 — Karl August of Saxe-Weimar drafted the first German constitution.

1842 — Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov was transferred from Pyatigorsk to Tarkhan, to his ancestral (maternal) tomb.

1821 — Napoleon Bonaparte died on the island of Saint Helena.

1891 — The famous Carnegie Hall concert hall opened in New York. The orchestra was conducted by Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky.

1912 — The first issue of the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda was published in St. Petersburg.

1912 — The Olympic Games opened in Stockholm (Sweden), the opening and closing ceremonies of which later became traditional.

1919 — The League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies was founded.

1945 — Denmark and the Netherlands were liberated from fascist occupation.

1945 — The Council of Europe, an international intergovernmental organization, was founded in London.

Dates of global importance:

UN: World Environment Day.