23 NOV
International day of watercolor
1899 in San Francisco at the hotel «Palais Royal» installed the first jukebox
1924 — the first broadcast by radio Moscow. Start of regular radio broadcasting in the USSR
1959 in Leningrad in the former Semenov parade ground was opened the monument to Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov
1984 — premiere of the feature film by Director Eldar Ryazanov’s «Cruel romance», filmed at the Studio «Mosfilm»
1993 — Moscow officially returned to historic emblem, approved in 1781
24 NOV
Mother’s day in Russia
The day of walrus in Russia
1859 — Charles Darwin publishes his book «on the Origin of species by means of natural selection, or the Preservation of favored races in the struggle for life.» The first edition of the book divergent in one day
1927 — official opening of the Moscow operetta
1969 — the United States and the Soviet Union ratified the Treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons
2014 — died Viktor Tikhonov (born 1930), Soviet hockey player and hockey coach