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children’s Day, the birthday of Morgan Freeman and Superman, the discovery of the North magnetic pole of the Earth and other events that happened on this day.

the international children’s day (International Children’s Day) is celebrated worldwide every year on 1 June. This holiday was established in November 1949 in Paris by the decision of the Congress of the International democratic Federation of women. It was first celebrated in 1950. UN supported this initiative and declared protection of rights, life and health of children one of priority directions of its activities. The holiday has a flag — painting green, which is around the symbol of our planet, is located five men of the schematic (red, blue, black, white and yellow). All together it symbolizes unity and the diversity of people living on Earth.

82 years ago today came the first issue of Action Comics, which appeared in one of the most famous comic book characters (later) Superman. The edition, which began with the Golden age of comics in the U.S. occurred in the great depression (1938), and this was the second version of the concept of Superman. In the first version, which was presented in 1933 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the future cult hero had rather the habits of the supervillain and this image didn’t bring him popularity.

on 1 June 1831 James Ross discovered the North magnetic pole of the Earth. In some sources this achievement is credited to the captain of the steamer “Victoria” to John Ross, who led the voyage. In fact, the opening belonged to a Lieutenant with Victoria James Ross, who was the nephew of the captain of the ship. Uncle James became sir John and the Admiral, and received the gold medal of the English and French geographical societies.

the first day of summer 1937 born actor and Director Morgan Freeman. In the early 70-ies of the Freeman became known to American audiences thanks to his participation in the popular television series. In 1992, Freeman starred with Clint Eastwood in “Unforgiven,” which received the award “Oscar” in the nomination “the Best film of the year.” 1994 Freeman brings another nomination for the award “Oscar” in the category “Best actor of the year” for her role in the drama based on the novel by Stephen king “the Shawshank redemption”. In 2005, he received his fourth nomination and the first Oscar (best supporting actor) for the film “million dollar Baby” (2004), during the filming of which he worked again with Clint Eastwood.

28 years ago, on 1 June 1992, Russia officially became the 165-th member of the International monetary Fund. On the proposal of U.S. President George H. W. Bush, at a meeting of the group of seven with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in London in July 1991, an agreement was reached on the granting countriese the status of associate member of the Fund not provided for in the Charter. In the same month, the Soviet Union sent a formal application for full membership in the IMF. Associate status was granted on 7 October. By the time the external debt of the USSR, and later Russia, as his successor, was $65.3 billion (2.3 times higher than in 1985), making the question of membership in the IMF is particularly pertinent given the access to credit.

53 years ago today, released eighth Studio album The Beatles “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”. He was named the best album of all time by the magazine “Rolling Stone”.

the Material is based on information RIA Novosti, TASS, “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, TV channel “Russia — Culture”, 5-tv.ru, the newspaper “Kommersant” and open sources.