Daily Calendar -July 14

195th day of the year, 170 days left until the New Year.

Church Calendar

Commemoration of Saint Nerses, Archbishop. Saints and Wonderworkers Cosmas and Damian, Silverless Martyrs - Martyrs in Rome (284); Holy Martyrs Potite the Younger (I), Venerable Peter the Patriarch (854); Nerses, Archbishop of Armenia (V).

Born:

1602 - Julio Mazarin, Prime Minister of France, Cardinal. Died in 1661.

1743 - Gavril Derzhavin, Russian poet. Died in 1816.

1861 - Vazha-Pshavela (Luka Razikashvili), great Georgian writer. Died in 1915.

1888 _ Kakutsa Cholokashvili, national hero, one of the leaders of the 1924 uprising. Died in 1930.

1896 – David Tsereteli, Georgian painter. Died in 1980.

1903 – Irving Stone, American writer. Died in 1989.

1913 – Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States. Died in 1974.

1918 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director.

1919 – Lino Ventura, French film actor. Died in 1987.

1928 – Nodar Dumbadze, prominent Georgian writer. Died in 1984.

1942 – Javier Solana, former Secretary General of NATO.

Died:

1927 – Auguste Jean Fresnel, French physicist, creator of wave optics. Born in 1788.

1910 – Marius Petipa, famous choreographer. Born in 1818.

1968 – Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian writer. Born in 1892.

1976 – Nikolai Ek (Ivakin), director of the first Soviet sound films. Born in 1902.

2002 – Yusuf Karshi, famous photographer-portraitist, author of photographs of the most prominent people of his time. Born in 1909.

2011 - Otia Ioseliani, Georgian writer.

Events:

1099 - The First Crusaders captured Jerusalem and killed all Muslims and Jews.

1789 - The French National Day - The Day of the Storming of the Bastille, a symbol of tyranny. The Great French Revolution began.

1941 - Soviet troops first used the Katyusha rocket launcher on the banks of the Dnieper River, near Orsha.

1946_ Benjamin Spock's book "The Child and Its Care" was first published.

1960 - On this day, a certain Minibaev kicked the leader's sarcophagus in Lenin's Mausoleum and broke the glass.

1969 - The "football war" began between El Salvador and Honduras. The reason for this was Honduras' dissatisfaction with the refereeing of a qualifying match for the Moflio Championship.

1990 – Rotary Club of Oliver, Canada — Club members baked a cherry pierogi, the diameter of which was 6.1 meters, weight — 17.7 tons, and 16.69 tons of cherries were used to bake it. This achievement is included in the Guinness Book of Records.

Memorable days:

France – Bastille Day.