February 7, or Fire Extinguisher came out and Gregory Day
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
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Aquarius, February 7. Born on this day are usually have pronounced social preferences and consider the existence of inequality to be correct.
Many of them are idealists by nature, but those who do not share the views of these people often accuse them of being rude and overly practical, even cynical.
They harshly criticize life as such, but have little idea of what it really should be.
However, their desperate efforts to live up to their ideals, as well as the fragile hopes that others will willingly follow their example, are not always realistic.
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Aquarius men born on February 7: Ashton Kutcher, Dieter Bohlen, Chris Rock.
- possess the following qualities:
- innovative thinker,
- smart,
- idealistic.
- All those who were born on this February day, it is imperative to work on themselves, develop willpower in order to remove themselves from such weaknesses.
- To a greater extent, this applies to men of Aquarius, it is they who must understand that, having changed, he will change for the better not only himself, but also some part of the world.
Aquarius women born on February 7: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Deborah Ann Woll, Juliette Gréco.
- endowed with the following qualities:
- original,
- mysterious,
- curious.
- These people should understand that sometimes it is simply useful to be a life optimist, to let faith and hope into their hearts, even if they are incredible and unsupported by anything, but still they will help to see the world in different colors, more colorful.
Main event
February 7, 1863
The first use of glass flasks filled with water to extinguish fires dates back to the 17th century. The very first fire extinguisher is one that was created in England in the 19th century. To fill it, water was also taken.
However, officially the first fire extinguisher is one that was patented on February 7, 1863 in Virginia (USA) by engineer Alan Kreem.
In Russia, the inventor Sheftal in the late 19th century created an explosive fire extinguisher "Pozharogaz", which was successfully advertised and sold, and engineer Laurent came up with a carbon dioxide and foam fire extinguisher.
Over time, fire extinguishers appeared, the filler for which was powder. Such fire extinguishers are also used at present.
Let the fire extinguisher be in your household, but do not have to use it.
Now the production of fire extinguishers is put on the conveyor. There are several reasons for this.
First, it is necessary to comply with the laws that prescribe the compliance with the rules of fire safety equipment, and for this in each institution must necessarily be checked firefighters fire extinguishers in the prescribed amount.
Secondly, fire extinguishers are necessary to save cars and other personal property from the fire element.
Fires cause huge damage to people every year. Be careful, and observe the rules of fire safety, and let the fire extinguisher to be in your household, but do not have to use it.
Holidays
Gregory Spring Indicator
In the national calendar, February 7 is called Gregory-spring-node. It was believed that today you can look not only for a month or even a season ahead, but much further.
They said that what would be the day before noon - the first half of the next winter will be like that. Accordingly, part of the day from lunch to evening predicted the weather for the second half.
They also noticed that if snow falls on Gregory, then the winter next year will not come soon. The singing of tits that day was a bad sign - it meant that in February there would still be frosts.
On Gregory Day, villages people was supposed to do good deeds by ourselves and remember the good deeds done by others. They did not tell about their good deeds: it was necessary to do good not for showing off, but for the sake of one’s own soul. On this occasion, they said: "The Lord already sees all good works."
Also on February 7...
1478 - Thomas More, English humanist, statesman and writer, was born; one of the founders of utopian socialism.
1752 - Right-hand traffic was established on the territory of the Russian Empire. It all happened this way: the Russian Empress Elizaveta Petrovna ordered all horse carts to keep to the right side of the street.
1795 - at the behest of Empress Catherine II, the port city of Khadzhibey was renamed Odessa.
1812 - Charles Dickens, an eminent English writer, was born.
1826 - Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, an adjunct professor at Kazan University, presented to his colleagues the work entitled “Compressed exposition of the beginnings of geometry”. In it, he proposed to revise Euclid’s fifth postulate on parallel straight lines, and on the basis of his proposal created a coherent, logical non-Euclidean geometry, now bearing his name.
1847 - Fyodor Inozemtsev conducts the first surgical operation in the Russian Empire using ether anesthesia.
1857 - In Russia, a decree was issued on the construction of the first railway network.
1863 - in Virginia (USA), Alençon Cray patented the first fire extinguisher.
1906 - Oleg Antonov was born, an aircraft designer, a Hero of Socialist Labor. Under his leadership were developed aircraft: An-2, An-8, An-10, An-12, An-14, An-22, An-24, An-26, An-28, An-32.
1925 - Gerald Malcolm Darrell, English zoologist and writer, was born.
1926 - chess player Mark Taimanov was born in Kharkov. Winner and prize winner of over 50 major tournaments, participant of 23 USSR championships, in two of which he won. Four-time European champion, world champion among youth, a participant in the competition of applicants for the world championship (1953, 1971), Olympic champion in 1956. In recent years, twice became a world champion among the "seniors" - chess players over 60 years old.
1960 - born Dieter Bohlen, German musician, composer and producer (Modern Talking, Blye System).
1975 - Wes Borland was born, an American musician, best known as the guitarist of the group Limp Bizkit.
1978 - Ashton Kutcher was born, American actor ("Butterfly Effect", "More than love", "Once in Vegas", "More than sex"), former husband Demi Moore.
1981 - the entire leadership of the USSR Pacific Fleet was killed in a Tu-104 plane crash near Leningrad. Of the 52 dead - 16 admirals and generals, and nearly two dozen captains of the first rank, who held admiral positions. So many of the highest naval commanders did not perish during the entire Second World War.
1984 - The crew of the ship Challenger for the first time goes into outer space without a tether and no insurance.
1992 - the ministers of foreign affairs and finance of the 12 member countries of the European Economic Community in the Dutch city of Maastricht signed an agreement that gave life to the European Union.
1998 - The XVIII Winter Olympic Games open in the Japanese city of Nagano.
1998 - snowboarding was included in the program of the Olympic Games.
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