Monday, October 22, 2007, #201 (1468)

Today in history

1883 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust (opera)
1949 - Soviet Union detonates its first nuclear bomb
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy announces that American spy planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation
1964 - Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada
1965 - End of the Second Kashmir War between India and Pakistan

Birthdays

1811 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886)
1870 - Ivan Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
1913 - Robert Capa, American war photographer (d. 1954)
1919 - Doris Lessing, British writer
1943 - Catherine Deneuve, French actress

Georgian words of the day

holiday - dghesastzauli
national  - erovnuli
celebrate - aghnishvna
October - oktomberi

Georgia celebrates Tbilisoba at the end of October.
oktombris bolos sakartvelo aghnishnavs tbilisobas.



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