April 15, or "Miss World", Culture and Ecological Knowledge Day
Zodiac Sign Aries
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Aries, April 15. Realists to the core, born on this day, interpret life as they see it.
Most of all, in the process of life, they are interested in the state of a person, which they strive to comprehensively investigate, measure and generalize in their conclusions.
In everyday life, those born on April 15 are preoccupied with the worries and needs of their loved ones and friends. They care about what they eat, wear, what they think and what they do. Sometimes they go too far in their curiosity, and this is where all their problems begin. Loved ones, satiated with excessive attention to themselves, begin to fight for the right to privacy and independence.
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Aries men born on April 15:
- are distinguished by the following qualities:
- attentiveness,
- invulnerability,
- idealism,
- confidence.
- Aries is always in motion, creating around himself and his woman a special reality of passion, vivid emotions, dynamics and victories.
- He is comfortable only in a state of struggle and race for first place, and therefore he will always seek his beloved woman in competition with strong competitors.
Aries women born on April 15:
- have the following traits:
- activity,
- confidence,
- independence.
- By nature, the representatives of this sign are optimists, generous and wasteful natures who prefer impractical gifts - emotions are more important for them than material goods.
- An idealist, philosopher, Aries woman often says what she thinks, without fear of offending her interlocutor.
Main event
In London, the first beauty contest "Miss World" took place
April 15, 1951
The first beauty contest "Miss World" - the official international beauty contest on the planet - was held in London on April 15, 1951. Thanks to this event, London received the glory of the capital of world beauty. By the way, the first contest "Miss Universe" was also held in London.
"The inventor" of "Miss World" was the London advertising agent of the firm "Mecca" Eric Morley, who was asked to come up with something original to advertise the ballroom during the British festival. He proposed to organize a world beauty contest, which would be held under the auspices of the festival.
For the title of "Miss World" in the first competition claimed 30 girls. They appeared on stage in the bikini swimsuits, which were not yet known in England, than they made a furor.
The winner of this competition was Swedish Kerstin ''Kiki'' Hakonsson, who received a prize of $ 1000 and the opportunity to appear on the tabloid press.
Morley himself and his wife Julia immediately registered a competition firm, and since then, world beauty contests have been held annually in London.
Only since the beginning of the 1990s, the locations of the "Miss World" change almost annually.
By the way, in 2004 the first in the history international competition "Miss plastic surgery" was held.
Holidays
International Day of Culture
“Culture” in Sanskrit literally means “honoring the light.”
April 15 marks the International Day of Culture. The date is associated with the signing of the ''Treaty on the Protection of Art and Scientific Institutions and Historical Monuments'' on April 15, 1935 in Washington, which became known in international legal practice as the ''Roerich Pact''.
The signing of the ''Roerich Pact'' was held on April 15 in 1935 in Washington in the White House by representatives of 21 states of the Americas. Franklin Roosevelt, Romain Rolland, Bernard Shaw, Rabindranath Tagore, Herbert Wells, Albert Einstein spoke in support of the Pact.
The Pact contains general principles on the protection and respect of cultural values. The provision on the protection of objects is unconditional and is not weakened by reservations about military necessity.
As a distinctive sign on monuments and cultural institutions requiring special respect and protection, the ''Flag of Peace'' was proposed, representing three circles in the circle of amaranth color on a white cloth, meaning the symbol of the trinity of all things.
The initiative to celebrate the day of the signing of the Pact as the International Day of Culture was launched in 1998 by the public organization ''International League for the Protection of Culture'', established in 1996 by the ''International Center of the Roerichs''.
Day of Ecological Knowledge
It dates back to 1992, when at the UN Conference in Rio de Janeiro, where environmental issues were discussed, the great importance of the environmental education of the population of all countries of the world in implementing a strategy for survival and for the sustainable development of mankind was emphasized.
Also on April 15...
1738 - one of the most necessary gadgets in the history of mankind was invented - a bottle opener.
1874 - the first exhibition of the works of impressionist artists was organized in Paris in the studio of the photographer Nadar: the unrecognized Parisian artists Monet, Renoir, Pizarro, Cezanne, Degas opened their own exhibition on Boulevard des Capucines.
1891 - American inventor Thomas Edison held a public demonstration of his kinetoscope, a moving-image machine.
1896 - The Olympic Games in Athens, revived for the first time since antiquity, ended.
1912 - on the night of April 14-15, after the collision with an iceberg, the ''Titanic'' steamer, the largest passenger liner in the world at the time of its construction, sank. Over 2 thousand passengers were killed. 705 people were saved.
1924 - The first atlas of highways is published in the USA.
1930 - in Kharkov, on the territory of the University Garden, adjacent to the Dzerzhinsky Square, the construction of the House of Projects began (architects S. Serafimov and N. Zandberg-Serafimov), which had a useful area of 50 thousand square meters. Now it is the main building of the university named after VN Karazin.
1933 - Boris Strugatsky, Soviet and Russian science fiction writer, screenwriter, translator, was born. Boris Strugatsky created most of his literary works in collaboration with his brother Arkady.
1939 - Claudia Cardinale, Italian film actress (“Rocco and his brothers”, “Once upon a time in the Wild West”, “8 1/2”) was born.
1955 - Ray Kroc opened his first McDonald’s restaurant in Des Plains, Illinois. Hamburger cost customers 15 cents, french fries 10 cents. Now the restaurants of the network have occupied 119 countries of the world.
1959 - Emma Thompson, English and American actress, screenwriter, producer (“My terrible nanny”, “Real love”, “Reason and feelings”, “Harry Potter”) was born.
1982 - Seth Rogen, a Canadian actor and screenwriter, was born (“Superbad”, “Knocked Up”, “The 40 Year-Old Virgin”).
1993 - President of Turkmenistan S. Niyazov announced the transition of the Turkmen language from Cyrillic to Latin.
1998 - the last crystal for a ''Pentium'' class processor was manufactured at one of the ''Intel'' factories. ''Intel'' finally shifts from the production of processors with the ''P5'' architecture for the ''Socket 7'' to the release of processors with the ''P6'' architecture for the ''Slot 1'''. The new processor for the "mass" users - ''Celeron'' has been officially announced.
1999 - An international team of astronomers announced the discovery of large planets in the Epsilon star of the Andromeda constellation.
1999 - famous fashion designer Nikola Trussardi died in a car accident.
2000 - 22 Ukrainian paratroopers landed at the North Pole.
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