August 2 is a day in history. Significant events in the world of music - days of remembrance

Day of the airborne troops. Day of the Airborne Forces.

The Airborne Forces (Airborne Forces) are a highly mobile type of troops, rapid response, designed to cover the enemy by air and conduct combat and sabotage operations in his rear. The RF Airborne Forces are the means of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and can form the basis of the mobile rapid reaction forces. They report directly to the Commander of the Airborne Forces and consist of airborne divisions, brigades, individual units and institutions.
The Airborne Forces (Airborne Forces) - "winged infantry", "blue berets" - what epithets were awarded to the paratroopers guards, but always, at all times and under any circumstances, the strength, courage and reliability of people living according to the principle: "NOBODY EXCEPT US!".
"Airborne Troops - Uncle Vasya's Troops" - this is how the paratroopers themselves say about themselves, and this phrase contains the readiness at any time of the day or night to fulfill the order, special pride in belonging to the airborne brotherhood and special love and respect for the person who gave the troops all himself - to the Commander of the Airborne Forces, General of the Army Vasily Filippovich Margelov - a legendary man, paratrooper number 1. It was his iron willpower, perseverance and perseverance in achieving this goal that made it possible to carry out a large-scale rearmament of troops, introduce new methods and means of landing, create a potential solving problems practically anywhere in the world.
Throughout the history of its existence, the Airborne Forces have written many bright pages of courage, valor and honor in the book of the military history of the army of the Fatherland. Millions and millions of citizens of the country went through the harsh school of airborne service, and it was not for nothing that August 2 became a national holiday.
And it all started on July 26, 1930. On this day, under the leadership of military pilot L. Minov, the first training jumps were made in Voronezh.
On August 2, 1930, at the exercises of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District near Voronezh, for the first time, an airborne unit in the amount of 12 people was parachuted to perform a tactical mission. This experiment allowed military theorists to see the prospect of the advantages of airborne units, their enormous capabilities associated with the rapid coverage of the enemy by air.
This experiment attracted a lot of attention. wide range military specialists. Therefore, in September of the same 1930, at the direction of the commander of the Moscow Military District, A.I.Kork, a second airborne assault was used during the maneuvers.
This time it was decided to use the landing in a more difficult situation. It was necessary to covertly carry out an airborne assault in the rear of the "enemy". After landing, the paratroopers were supposed to attack the headquarters of the rifle division, seize combat documents, and then cross the conditional front line. The landing party completed this task successfully. The same group was involved in its implementation as in the first landing.
The first airborne unit was formed in 1931 in the Leningrad Military District, an airborne detachment, numbering 164 people. The beginning of the creation of massive airborne troops was laid by the decree of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR, adopted on December 11, 1932. In order to develop airborne operations in the Red Army, train the relevant personnel and units, the Revolutionary Military Council decided to deploy a brigade on the basis of the airborne detachment of the Leningrad Military District, entrusting it with training instructors in airborne training and working out operational-tactical standards.
At the same time, it was planned to form by March 1933 one airborne detachment in the Belorussian, Ukrainian, Moscow and Volga military districts. Started new stage in the development of the airborne troops. And already at the beginning of 1933, special aviation battalions were formed in these districts.
Until 1946, the Airborne Forces were part of the Air Force. From 1946 - as part of the ground forces, but directly subordinate to the Minister of Defense. In 1991, the Airborne Forces were recognized as an independent branch of the military.
August 2, 1930 was the birthday of the Airborne Forces.

Events on August 2.

1100 - under mysterious circumstances, the English king William II the Red died while hunting (there is a version that he was shot by his own brother, the future king of England, Henry I.
1377 - combined Russian army under the leadership of Prince Ivan Dmitrievich, it was defeated by the Horde army under the leadership of Prince Arab Shah Muzaffar in the Battle of the Pyana River.
1492 - In accordance with the Alhambra Decree, the Jews had to leave Spain by August 2.
1552 - A treaty is signed in Passau giving the Protestant princes of Germany the freedom to determine the religion of their subjects.
- Duke of Saxony Johann Frederick was released after six years of imprisonment by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
1553 - French troops are defeated by the troops of the Holy Roman Empire at Marciano.
1608 - Russia and Rzeczpospolita signed a truce for 4 years, according to which the Poles pledged to leave Tushino, the place of residence of False Dmitry.
1610 - Mariner Henry Hudson discovered Hudson Bay, confident that he went out on the Northern Route to the Pacific Ocean.
1713 - The first settlers arrive in Luisburg (Canada).
1718 - France, England, Austria and Holland form the first Alliance of Four against Spain.
1727 - the Russian emperor Peter II issued a decree on the restoration of the elective position of the hetman of Little Russia, but it was indicated that Daniel the Apostle should be elected hetman.
1769 - the Spaniards founded the settlement Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porziunzila (now just Los Angeles).
1776 - The signing ceremony of the Declaration of Independence, adopted on July 4 by the Continental Congress and proclaiming the secession of 13 North American colonies from Great Britain, took place. Thus, a new state was formed - the United States. US Independence Day is celebrated on July 4, and August 2 can be considered the day when independence was secured de jure.
1790 - The first census of the United States is conducted.
1794 - arrested for loyalty to Robespierre French artist, revolutionary Jacques-Louis David, who will be in prison for exactly one year.
1796 - Napoleon defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Lonato (Lombardy).
1806 - English explorer Simon Fraser named the new territories of British Columbia Nova Scotia.
1812 - a plague epidemic began in Odessa, from which every 9th inhabitant of the city died.
1824 - Fifth Avenue opens in New York City, home to the most fashionable stores.
1830 - French King Charles X (the last of the Bourbon dynasty) abdicated.
1858 - in North America a separate colony of British Columbia is created.
1865 - The first edition of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" is published by Macmillan Publishing House.
1887 - Rowell Hodge patented barbed wire in the USA.
1900 - Siberian poet, centurion of the Amur regiment Leonid Volkov died in a skirmish with the Chinese near Aigun.
1903 - The anti-Turkish Ilinden uprising begins in Macedonia.
1906 - Porto football club is founded in Portugal.
- In Sveaborg (Finland), the tsarist troops suppressed an armed uprising of Russian sailors.
1909 - The first military aircraft, built by the Wright brothers, is adopted by the US Army.
- Russian Tsar Nicholas II visited his uncle in Britain - the English king Edward VII.
1914 - Emperor Nicholas II proclaims a manifesto on war with Germany.
1916 - AMO (Automobile Motor Society) plant was founded in Moscow. At the end of 1933, it was renamed ZIS (plant named after Stalin), and after the exposure of the cult of personality began to be called ZIL (plant named after Likhachev).
1930 - in the USSR, during the exercises of the Moscow Military District, on the outskirts of the city of Voronezh, an airborne assault was landed for the first time. Subsequently, this day began to be celebrated in the USSR, and now in Russia, as the Day of the Airborne Forces. The first paratroopers were 12 people.
1933 - The Stalin White Sea-Baltic Canal was opened.
- The first mainline electric locomotive in the USSR was tested at the Suram Pass.
1934 - After the death of Reich President Hindenburg, Adolf Hitler is declared the Fuehrer of Germany.
1940 - the Moldavian SSR was formed.
1942 - Kushchevskaya attack.
1945 - end of the Potsdam Conference.
1946 - execution of Lieutenant General A.A. Vlasov, commander of the Russian Liberation Army.
1964 - First Tonkin Incident: US destroyer Maddox, supported by US Navy aircraft, repelled an attack by three North Vietnamese torpedo boats, presumably in North Vietnamese waters.
1972 - an agreement was signed on the unification of Egypt and Libya into a single state.
1981 - Hearings begin in the case of Mark David Chapman, accused of the murder of John Lennon.
1990 - Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
1995 - creation of "Russian Radio".
1996 - the last death sentence is carried out in Russia. On this day, the killer of 11 teenagers, Sergei Golovkin, was shot.
2007 - for the first time in the world, the bottom of the Arctic Ocean at the North Pole was reached on the Mir deep-sea manned vehicles, where the Russian flag and a capsule with a message to future generations were placed.

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On this day, Christians of the Eastern rite honor the memory of the prophet of God Elijah (IX century BC).

From the Hebrew name Ilya is translated as "Yahweh is my God." In the Bible (in the book of Kings) there are four episodes associated with Elijah, which can be conventionally called "Drought and Competition at Carmel", "Elijah at Sinai", "Vineyard of Naboth" and "Ascension of Elijah." According to legend, the prophet did not die, but was taken to heaven "by a fiery whirlwind in a chariot with fiery horses." Since ancient times, Ukrainians have always held this holiday in high esteem and is associated with agricultural magic. The prototype of Ilya was the Daibozh Perun, as the patron saint of thunder and lightning. In the Kherson region, it was called the "holiday of thunder". On this day, they tried not to work, did not even go hunting, fearing Ilya's anger, who might strike someone who does not celebrate with lightning. From Ilya, rowan nights begin and the active starfall characteristic of August begins. Some believed: if a star falls and burns out, then "the witch picked it up and hid it in a jug." Others argued that when a star leaves behind a long beam of light, "it is Ukraine that is losing its girl." Traditionally, the harvest ended with Elijah. Proverbs say: "The harvest ends - autumn begins" or "On this day, before lunchtime, summer, and after lunchtime, autumn." After Ilya, the children were not allowed to swim in the reservoirs, as the nights became cool and the water cooled noticeably. The Prophet of God Elijah is revered not only in Christianity, but also in Judaism (the prophet Elijah, the forerunner of the Messiah) and in Islam (where he is known as Ilyas). The militant prophet Elijah is considered their heavenly patron by the airborne troops.

Today International Roma Holocaust Day, which is celebrated in Ukraine in accordance with the Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of October 8, 2004. It was on this day in 1944 that the Nazis in the Auschwitz-Birkenau (Auschwitz) concentration camp staged the so-called "Gypsy Night", killing more than 20 thousand gypsies. The final death toll during the repression has not been established. In total, during the Second World War, the Nazis, pursuing a racist policy of ethnocide, removed from the occupied countries and burned about 500 thousand Roma in concentration camps. Many of them were destroyed during the war and in Ukraine: in forced labor camps, places of nomadism, during punitive operations. The most numerous losses were suffered by the Roma who lived in Kiev, on the territory of the Crimea, Transcarpathian, Vinnitsa, Odessa, Sumy, Cherkassk and other regions of our state.

Anniversaries of the day:

1 30 birthday anniversary Kostya Burevia (present - Konstantin Stepanovich Burovoy; 1888-1934), Ukrainian writer, publicist, theater critic. As Yuri Lavrinenko noted in his work “The Executed Revival”, “... Kostya Bureviy is a man of three different lives. The first life was a typical life of an "all-Russian" professional underground revolutionary, active figure, and then a member of the Central Committee of the oldest Russian party of socialist revolutionaries (1903-1922). This life gave Burevia 68 tsarist ones and one Bolshevik Russian prison, three exiles to the North and Siberia and an escape from them, tuberculosis and dozens of bone surgeries. The second life (1923-1934) is the life of an outstanding figure of the executed Renaissance. She gave him new atrocities and persecution, but gave him back his Ukraine, gave him a high pleasure to build, create lasting values. The third life of Kostya Burevia is the life of the mystical Edward Strikha, who was born in 1927, but has not died until now, because Burevia wrote it down to a small group in the history of world literature. the best masters parody and literary hoax. The second and third lives can be considered as one, which lasted only ten years and cost him the execution when he was only 46 years old, and he began to catch up with lost time by leaps and bounds ... ”Kostya Bureviy was born into a very poor family, and therefore was able to finish only a rural four-year plan. He received further education on his own, mainly in hard labor and in prisons. There he learned Polish and French. First attracted attention with the book “Europe or Russia. Development ways modern literature". In 1929 he moved to Kharkov and showed himself as a first-class connoisseur and critic of theater, literature, art (he published the monographs "Three Poets" (about the work of Pavel Tychina, Mikhail Semenko, Valerian Polishchuk), "Ambrose Buchma", edited monographs about the artists Samokish , Dmitry Levitsky and theatrical memoirs of Saksagansky, Kropyvnitsky, Sadovsky, etc.). Kostya Bureviy is the author of the parodies "Zosendropia", "Hams", "Dead Loops", "Sheep's Tears", the historical drama "Pavel Polubotok". On December 13-15, 1934, by the visiting session of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR in Kiev, Kost Bureviy was sentenced to be shot on charges of “organizing the preparation of terrorist acts against Soviet workers”. The verdict was carried out on December 15, 1934. 37 people went through this process, 27 of them shared the fate of Burevia. Among the victims are writers Alexey Vlyzko, Grigory Kosynka, Ivan Krushelnitsky, Dmitry Falkovsky.

95 birthday anniversary Shimon Peres (1923-2016), ninth President of the State of Israel, laureate Nobel Prize the world (1994).

85 birthday anniversary Peter O "Toole (1932-2013), British theater and film actor. He starred in films: "How to Steal a Million", "Lawrence of Arabia", "Beckett", "Night of the Generals", "The Ruling Class", "My Favorite Year", "Troy", "The Last Emperor", "Supergirl" and others. Played in the theater Shakespearean repertoire. Eight times was nominated for "Oscar", but the actor failed to receive the prestigious award. Only in 2003 he was awarded an honorary "Oscar" for his outstanding contribution to the development of cinema. The actor's last film work is the role in the film "Catherine of Alexandria", which was released in August 2014.

Death anniversary:

4 2 year from the date of death Fritz Lang (1890-1976), a German and American filmmaker, a cult figure in world cinema, one of the "greatest architects of cinema" (this is what the famous film historian Georges Sadoul called him). While working in Germany, he directed the films Burnt Death, The Nibelungs, Dr. Mabuse - The Player, Metropolis. After the Nazis came to power, he emigrated to the United States (1935), worked in Hollywood, directed the anti-racist film Madness, the anti-fascist films The Hunt for a Man, The Ministry of Fear, and The Executioners Die Too (filmed with Bertolt Brecht) and a number of criminal adventure films. Since 1958 - again in West Germany, where he shot new versions of the films "Yeshnapur Tiger" and "Indian Tomb". Fritz Lang, who has achieved significant success in silent films, was able to repeat it in sound films. His world famous (and prophetic) film Metropolis (1927) - the most expensive in the history of German cinema (a budget of 5 million Reichsmarks and almost ruined the leading film studio UFA), greatly expanded the boundaries of cinematography and made a considerable impact on it further development... The public did not like the film, it was removed from the screens and mercilessly cut; over the years, the author's version was considered lost. The restoration of the film masterpiece took place only after the Second World War, in the 60s. In 2001, the Murnau Foundation, on the basis of all known variants, released a version of Metropolis, which was considered as close as possible to the author's and was included in the UNESCO list of “Memory of the World” - a kind of collection of standards of spiritual and material culture of mankind. In 2008, the full author's version of Metropolis was unexpectedly found in the archives of the Cinema Museum in Buenos Aires. “The image of a person requires ... a certain exaggeration when portraying his feelings and actions, even if he himself is pathetic and petty. This image requires a pedestal of stylization, just as the past centuries did. After all, monuments are never erected on bare asphalt: they are raised above the heads of passers-by ... ”- this was the artistic credo of the unsurpassed and unlike anyone else Fritz Lang.

2 1 year from the date of death William Burroughs (1914-1997), American writer, The "godfather" of the beatnik generation. Author of the scandalous novel Naked Lunch, written in Moroccan Tangier and published in 1959 in Paris by the Olympia publishing house. In the United States, the book was banned and appeared only three years after the decision of the Supreme Court. Tom Waits quite aptly characterized Burroughs: "... He is like Mark Twain, who stands in a black light." There were other nicknames: hellish grandfather, literary criminal, invisible man. Be that as it may, but the subculture created by Burroughs went beyond the word. He was a cult figure: he starred with Gus van Sant, then sang with Kurt Cobain. David Bowie arranged pilgrimage tours in Tangier where in last years lived the author of Naked Breakfast. He did not live three years to reach his 90th birthday.

On August 2, 1768, Empress Catherine II ordered to recognize Gustav Maksimovich Orreus as a doctor of medicine and to issue him a diploma, despite the opposition of the Medical College. This fact would not have been so remarkable if Orreus had not thus become the first domestic doctor of medicine to receive this scientific degree in his country, without resorting to the help of foreign universities.

Until the middle of the 18th century, all key positions in the medical management of Russia were quite firmly occupied by foreigners. They were invited as life doctors, they were given leadership positions in the Medical College, in hospitals, pharmacies, hospital schools. Concerned about this state of affairs and wanting to have natural Russians among doctors in her empire, Catherine II, in a personal decree given to the Medical College on June 9, 1764, granted her the right to award a "doctoral" degree to Russian subjects.

This decree was used by Gustav Orreus at the St. Petersburg Admiralty Hospital. He submitted a petition, presented the required documents, and the following year was the first Russian doctor to successfully pass the exam for this degree. However, Orreus's joy soon gave way to anxious anticipation. Time passed, but he was not given a diploma. After waiting more than a year, in August 1766 he filed a complaint against Senator Ivan Elagin. He demanded an explanation from the Medical College, which was not slow to enter. In a lengthy answer to German the leaders of the College shamelessly asserted that Orreus had passed the exam poorly. The real reason was different: the opportunity given by the decree to the Russians to receive doctoral degrees greatly worried the members of the Medical College, which consisted almost exclusively of foreigners. Therefore, the backstage game that accompanied the issuance of the first Russian diploma for the degree of Doctor of Medicine is not surprising. But Gustav Maksimovich did not give up, but filed a second complaint, this time to Catherine herself, and won the case.

“To see the picture as a whole, its creator needs to move away from it, and in order to appreciate the general scientific achievements of any era, it is desirable to take the point of view of the next one,” said the English physicist John Tyndall, born August 2, 1820.

It is thanks to him that we know why the sky is blue. The reason is the so-called "Tyndall effect", in which the scattered light beam looks like a bluish cone. The scientist's optical research formed the basis of modern fiber-optic communication.

Tyndall supported Louis Pasteur's work on processing food products, and now, in addition to pasteurization, tindalization is also known - fractional steam treatment at a temperature of 100 degrees Celsius.

American actress Myrna Loy was born on August 2, 1905. In the mid-30s, when Clark Gable was voted King of Cinema by poll, Loy became Queen.

The first significant popularity came to the actress in 1934 after two important films in her career: the film "Manhattan Melodrama" and the detective comedy "The Thin Man", and before that she played mainly vamp women and insidious temptresses. By 1936, Loy had become the number one box office star in the United States.

Lacking classical beauty, she was distinguished by a bright personality. Since 1946 Loy has not left acting career, became an observer at UNESCO. In the same year, she played one of her best dramatic roles - the wife of an officer returning from the war in the film by William Wyler "The Best Years of Our Lives."

On August 2, 1924, James Baldwin, "America's rebellious son," was born in New York's Negro neighborhood of Harlem. His novel "Giovanni's Room", written in 1956, became a cult book for several generations.

“I am the grandson of a slave and I am a writer. I need to get along with both, ”said James Baldwin. The purpose of his work is the desire to understand the essence of the concept of "American nation" with visible unity, always ready to split into two warring camps: white and black. “We blacks and whites deeply need each other if we want to become real country", - he argued. After leaving America after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Baldwin spent the rest of his life in France, where he was awarded the Legion of Honor. He died in 1987.

One of the best actors of his generation, Peter O "Tulu, a follower of the great traditions of English theater and one of the finest actors of his generation, turns 85 on August 2. He has been nominated for an Oscar seven times for his outstanding contribution to cinema.

As a child, Peter O "Toole wanted to become a journalist, but became interested in theater and made his stage debut at age 17. His first film roles in the late 50's went unnoticed. In the early 60's he became a leading actor in the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford-on. -Avone and starred in starring role in David Lean's masterpiece Lawrence of Arabia. Then there were works in the films "Beckett", "The Ruling Class", "The Stuntman", "The Last Emperor" ... William Wyler's comedy "How to Steal a Million" in 1966, in which Audrey Hepburn was Peter O "Toole's partner, was a great success among Soviet audiences. . Among last works actor - the role of the king of Troy Priam in the large-budget historical drama "Troy", filmed in 2004 based on the poem "The Iliad" by Homer.

On August 2, 1940, a military tribunal of the French government sentenced Brigadier General Charles de Gaulle in absentia to death, deprivation of military rank and confiscation of property.

De Gaulle was at that time in London, where he arrived in the summer of the same year after the surrender of France and the establishment of the Vichy collaborationist regime in the country. The new regime put de Gaulle on trial for speaking on London radio in June calling on French patriots to continue their armed struggle against Nazi Germany. In this speech, de Gaulle declared himself the legitimate representative of France.

Three comrades once served in the army - David Tukhmanov, Vladimir Vinokur and Georgy Movsesyan. None of them really need to be introduced. All, as if on selection, people are creative and wonderful. Composer Georgy Movsesyan celebrates his birthday on August 2.

He's a musician playing for everyone keyboard instruments, worked for the Mosfilm Orchestra for many years. He began with the performance of someone else's music in the film "I Walk Through Moscow" (solo on the accordion). He created arrangements for orchestras (the song "There Beyond the Clouds, There Beyond the Clouds" became popular precisely in his interpretation). And he wrote his first song to the verses of Boris Vakhnyuk and Anatoly Zemlyansky "Roads" in 1965. Thanks to the music for the songs, he became famous. Here are just some of his hits: "Birch", "I have been entrusted with a song", "This song, friend, yours and mine", "The sacred words" Moscow is behind us! " we remember from the time of Borodin "," My years are my wealth "," Farewell to love "...

“My years are my wealth” and “Farewell to Love” are still sung by Vakhtang Kikabidze, who, by the way, became a friend of the maestro.

On August 2, 1966, test pilot Vladimir Ilyushin lifted into the skies the first aircraft in the USSR with a variable sweep wing in flight - an experimental C-22I fighter-bomber designed by Pavel Sukhoi.

The aircraft successfully passed the tests, and their results were so impressive that the Sukhoi experimental design bureau was required to carry out the appropriate modification of the original model. In 1967, a prototype under the designation Su-7IG was shown to the public at air parade at Domodedovo, and in 1970 a new machine, called the Su-17, was put into service.

Today, sixty percent of the Russian Air Force's aircraft fleet is made up of machines developed by the design team created in 1939 and nurtured by the outstanding Soviet aircraft designer Pavel Sukhoi. These are fighters of the "branchy" family SU-27, attack aircraft SU-25, front-line bombers SU-24, deck-based aircraft SU-33 ... Over six and a half decades, more than 11 thousand machines with the letters "SU" on board have been built. Two thousand aircraft were delivered to 19 countries of the world. Today, the Sukhoi Design Bureau is the undisputed leader of the Russian aircraft industry.

As you know, the day before his death, John Lennon donated 10 thousand dollars for the purchase of bulletproof vests for the New York police. Ironically, such a vest came in handy for his killer. In it, Mark Chapman was taken to the courthouse - the police feared that crowds of Lennon's fans would simply tear him to pieces. During his time behind bars, Chapman received more threats than any other prisoner in America. Even Mark's father never visited him in prison.

On this page you will learn about the significant and memorable dates of summer today on August 2, what famous people were born on this August day, events took place, and we will also tell you about folk signs and Orthodox holidays this day, public holidays different countries from all over the world.

Today, as on any day, as you will see, events have taken place over the centuries, each of them is remembered for something, no exception was the day of August 2, which was also remembered for its own dates and birthdays of famous people, as well as holidays and folk signs. You and I must always remember and know about those who left their indelible mark on culture, science, sports, politics, medicine and all other areas of human and society development.

The day of August 2, left its indelible mark on history, events and memorable dates, as well as who was born on this summer day, once again confirm this. Find out what happened on the second day of August, 2 August, what events and significant dates he was noted for and what he remembered, who was born, folk signs characterizing the day and much more, what you should know, it’s just interesting to know.

Who was born on August 2 (second)

Shimon Peres, (Hebrew שמעון פרס; nee Persky; August 2, 1923, Vishnevo, Volozhin povet, Novogrudok voivodeship, Polish Republic, now - the village of Vishnevo, Volozhin district, Minsk region of Belarus - September 28, 2016) - the oldest Israeli politician and statesman, whose political career lasted over 70 years. The ninth President of the State of Israel from July 2007 to July 2014.

Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven (Wesley Earl Craven) was born on August 2, 1939 in Cleveland (USA) - died on August 30, 2015. American film director, producer, screenwriter. Cult director in the horror film genre.

Tatyana Skorokhodova (08/02/1968 [Irkutsk]) - Russian actress;

Natalia Drozdova (08/02/1954 [Loukhi]) - Russian actress;

Vladislav Kotlyarsky (08/02/1972 [Moscow]) - Russian actor;

Dzhigan (08/02/1985 [Odessa]) - hip-hop performer;

Donna Eyre (08/02/1979 [Newcastle upon Tyne]) - English TV presenter and actress;

Ilya Zudin (08/02/1978 [Sochi]) - Russian musician, singer, member of the popular musical group Dynamite;

Natalia Mogilevskaya (08/02/1975 [Kiev]) - Ukrainian pop star;

Jacinda Barrett (08/02/1972 [Brisbane]) - American actress and model;

Alice Evans (08/02/1971 [Summit]) - famous English actress;

Laura Bennett (08/02/1963 [New Orleans]) - American architect and fashion designer;

Dmitry Puchkov (Goblin) (08/02/1961 [Kirovograd]) - Russian writer, publicist, translator, known by creative pseudonym senior operative Goblin blogger;

Alain Giresse (02.08.1952 [Languaran]) - French footballer and coach;

Joanna Cassidy (08/02/1945 [Haddonield]) - American film and television actress;

Valery Bykovsky (08/02/1934 [Pavlovsky Posad]) - pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR;

Vladimir Arro (02.08.1932 [Leningrad]) - Russian and Soviet playwright, children's writer;

Jorge Videla (08/02/1925 [Mercedes] - 05/17/2013 [Buenos Aires]) - former Commander-in-Chief of the Argentine Army, de facto President of Argentina from 1976 to 1981;

Beatrice Whitney Straight (08/02/1914 [Old Westbury] - 04/07/2001 [Los Angeles]) - American theater, film and television actress;

Ann Dvorak (08/02/1912 [New York] - 12/10/1979 [Honolulu]) - American film actress;

Myrna Loy (02.08.1905 [Rader'sburg] - 14.12.1993 [New York]) - popular American actress of the 30s;

Constantine I (08/02/1868 [Athens] - 01/11/1923 [Palermo]) - King of Greece.

Dates 2 August

In Belarus - Day of the paratrooper

In Ukraine - Day of highly mobile airborne troops

In Kazakhstan - Day of the Airborne Forces

Macedonia celebrates - Republic Day

Guyana celebrates - Freedom Day

Costa Rica celebrates - Day of the Angelic Virgin

Azerbaijan celebrates the Day of National Cinema

According to the popular calendar, this is Ilyin's Day

On this day:

in 47 BC Julius Caesar sent his most famous report to the Senate "I came, I saw, I conquered"

in 1552, Basil the Blessed died, the holy fool, immortalized by a beautiful cathedral

Thomas Gainsborough, England's most inspired painter, died in 1788

Jack Warner, one of the brothers of the film industry, was born in 1892

Alexander Bell, the creator of the telephone, died in 1922

in 1932 gave birth to Peter O "Toole, who played many kings, Robinson, Don Quixote and even Arthur Conan Doyle

Louis Blériot, the first pilot to fly the English Channel, died in 1936

in 1961 Dmitry Puchkov was born, better known as the voice of a goblin.

Events 2 August

August 2, 1931 - the Stalin White Sea-Baltic Canal was opened, which went from the White Sea to Lake Onega.

More than 280 thousand prisoners worked with wheelbarrows, sledgehammers, axes. The most modern mechanism was the wooden crane. The classified construction progressed at a tremendous pace under the leadership of the NKVD; the canal was laid in record time.

Such canals were built for decades, and the White-Baltic Canal was built in 1 year and 9 months, while it was at least a third longer. The country got the opportunity to exploit the forest and mineral-ore resources of the Northern Soviet Territory.

October 2, 1945 - the meeting of Churchill, Truman, Stalin, known as the "Big Three" conference, ended.

It was on it that the most important decisions were made on the division and arrangement of defeated Germany. In the East, the borders of the country were moved to the west, the territory decreased by 25%. In the east, the territories were predominantly agricultural, and Upper Silesia became the center of German heavy industry.

A third of East Prussia became part of the USSR, with the capital in present-day Kaliningrad. It was also decided and confirmed that after the surrender of Germany, the USSR would declare war on Japan no later than three months.

On August 2, 1930, at exactly 9 o'clock, the first parachute landing in the amount of 12 people was dropped from the sky.

On August 2, 1946, the International Non-Governmental Organization (WFASON) was founded, which unites non-governmental organizations of the United Nations.

The World Federation of UN Associations brought together 22 world organizations at a conference in Luxembourg.

August 2, 1865 saw the light of the first edition of the book by Lewis Carroll "The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland".

It is believed that after Ilya's day it is no longer possible to swim in the reservoirs - summer ends, and the turn towards autumn begins. There was a well-known omen among the people, according to which it was forbidden to swim on Elijah's day, August 2, - there would be a drowned man, and they believed in her for a long time.

However, the main reason for the ban on swimming after August 2 is that the weather in August is no longer so warm and hot, and therefore, going to splash in cold waters, you can get sick. And the omens have nothing to do with it!

If we consider that earlier in Russia they did not have the opportunity to treat diseases as effectively as today, it becomes clear that even a cold for ordinary villagers was a big problem. They said: "On Ilya and the stone freezes" - this was a confirmation that cold days had come.

Also, August 2 was the time for haymaking. It was rumored that there was a lot of honey in the hay on Ilya - that is, the ears were ugly and ripe enough to harvest. The first sheaf was put on Ilya. It was usually placed in the entryway in the nearest corner. It was said that this helps to get a good harvest.

It was a common tradition to sleep on a mattress filled with the first straw on August 2 - for good luck. They also rejoiced that gradually the nights are getting longer and the days are getting shorter. They said that at this time the horses are full and the worker gets enough sleep.

They went out to hunt wolves, but the cattle were not driven out to graze in the fields, since the day was bad. On August 2, beekeepers drove the bees, cut the first combs, cleaned up the hives. We noticed that after Ilya Day, the rooks no longer fly alone, but gather in flocks.

In the Orthodox church on August 2, the memory of the holy prophet Elijah is honored, who, according to historical information, lived in the 9th century BC and was known as a zealous Christian who actively fought against idolatry and wickedness. During the life of Elijah, Israel was ruled by a rather spineless Ahab, whose wife allowed him to introduce paganism on the territory of the state.

However, Elijah was able to intercede for the Jews, who were not going to worship the pagan god Baal. The Lord endowed Elijah with the gift of working miracles, which he used to convert people to faith.

Ilya could also send punishment to the ruler for allowing the introduction of idolatry - it was a three-year famine. In addition, Ilya independently executed the pagan priests who had settled on Mount Carmel. The governor's wife, Jezebel, was very angry about this and swore that she would destroy Elijah. However, he managed to hide in the desert.

Much later, Elijah returns to Israel again and continues to preach. It is known that it was the prophet Elijah who was taken alive to heaven - this is what the Bible says. So, Ilya went to God in a fiery chariot, after which they began to call him nothing but a thunderer. On the day of his memory, they organized a procession and prayed for rain or clear weather.

In some villages on August 2, a cup with grains of rye and rice was exhibited, and the priest was asked to consecrate them. It is undesirable to work on the day of Elijah, since there was a belief that a saint could punish a person with poor harvests and diseases.

The peasants believed that on August 2, all reptiles and wild animals go out into the world, and therefore, they tried not to let the cattle go to the pasture. There was a common belief that cats and dogs should not be allowed into the house - this could attract lightning, which the peasants were very afraid of.

Folk omens on August 2

They said that on Ilya, winter fights summer, and this day was considered a turn towards winter. People began to bake bread from the new harvest

Dull thunder on Ilya portends a light rain, and on the contrary, a heavy downpour will begin if loud thunder is heard on Ilya

Thunder thunders incessantly - expect a strong hail

Rain on Ilya portends a good grain harvest next year

There are a lot of clouds in the sky on the morning of August 2 - next year you need to carry out an early sowing and expect the same early harvest. If the sky is overcast at noon, then the seeding will be medium. The sky darkens in the evening - expect late sowing and poor harvest

You can't eat strawberries after Ilya Day - otherwise you will fall asleep

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