Calendar of the Day // Actor Vitalie Rusu turns 83 today
Radio Moldova presents the Calendar of the Day - the most important events, which we record today, August 12.
1851: American inventor Isaac Singer receives a patent for his sewing machine. Singer & Co. was born in the same year, renamed the Singer Company in 1963. In just four years after its establishment, Singer had become the most widespread sewing machine brand internationally, and by 1890 it had already reached a share of global market of 90%, after the year before, the company had also launched the first electric sewing machine model. Throughout his life, Isaac Singer had several wives and 24 children. The founder died in 1875, and left an inheritance of 13 million dollars.
1865: Phenol was used to disinfect instruments for the first time during a surgical operation.
1883: The last Quagga zebra died in a zoo in Amsterdam.
The actor Vitalie Rusu was born on August 12, 1941 in the village of Plopi, Dondușeni district. In 1964 he graduated from the Institute of Arts "G. Musicescu" from Chisinau, theater and film actor specialty. He worked as an actor and director at the "Mihai Eminescu" National Theater in Chisinau, later he bacem the chief director of this theater. In 1999 he was cultural attache, and in 2000-2003 - secretary at the Embassy of the Republic of Moldova in Bucharest. In his acting career, he played 80 theater and film roles in famous plays such as: "Revizorul" by N. V. Gogol, "Romeo and Juliet" by Shakespeare, "Iași in carnival" by Vasile Alecsandri, "Mother-in-law with three daughters-in-law" by Ion Creangă. Vitalie Rusu was also awarded the title of Artist Emeritus and the Order of the Republic.
1949: 18 states signed the Geneva Conventions.
1952: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow.
1964: South Africa is banned from the Olympics due to the country's racist policies.
1981: The first IBM personal computer enters the market.
2000: The Russian nuclear submarine Kursk exploded and sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise. Holidays:
August 12 is International Youth Day. In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly approved the recommendation made by the World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth that August 12 be declared International Youth Day. This day is an opportunity to celebrate and to integrate the voices, actions and initiatives of young people and their meaningful, universal and equitable engagement. According to UN data, there are currently 1.2 billion young people in the world, which constitute 16 percent of the planet's population. In Ukraine, Youth Day is celebrated on the last Sunday of June. International Elephant Day
