the Last battle of Napoleon, the first large-scale plane crash and other memorable dates and events that occurred on 18 June in different years.
18 Jun 1583 in London Richard Martin has insured the life of William Gibson in the amount of 383 pound (about 483 us dollars). Mass life insurance appeared in Europe at the turn of the XVII—XVIII centuries as a Supplement to marine insurance. Along with the insurance of ships and cargoes began to enter into contracts of life insurance of ship captains.
In 1815 on this day took place the famous battle of Waterloo, the last major battle of the French Emperor Napoleon I. as the enemy of Napoleon was made by the Seventh coalition of European monarchs. In the battle killed more than 50 thousand people from both sides.
18 Jun 1939 Russian poetess Marina Tsvetaeva returned to the Soviet Union on the steamship “Maria Ulyanova”. Having lived in Prague and then in Paris for seventeen years, Tsvetaeva went back at the urging of her family — her husband Sergei Efron and her daughter Ariadna. Despite the homesickness and, in particular, in Moscow, Tsvetaeva opposed the return, saying that the old Russia is gone, and asking the rhetorical question, “can I go back to the house, which is razed?”.
on this day in 1953 in the city Tachikawa in Japan crashed American military aircraft C-124. He was transporting troops to Seoul, but after a minute after takeoff the captain reported an engine failure.
“Youth” — the Soviet and then Russian literary illustrated magazine for young people. Its first edition appeared in print on June 18, 1955. The journal was founded at the initiative of Valentin Kataev, who became the first editor.
Young readers of those times, the magazine seemed bright and unusual, and its circulation quickly rose from one hundred and fifty thousand to one million. One reason for this is that the edition “has opened the window” to the world abroad.
18 Jun 1976 Russian born entertainer, impersonator, broadcaster and singer Maxim Galkin. Galkin’s acting career began in 1994 in the Variety Theatre, he participated in the “Openings, openings, openings”, where the number of skits performed speech of Zhirinovsky and Yeltsin. One time Galkin were there, then a year and a half he has toured with Mikhail Zadornov, who called Maximus as his “successor”.
In July 2001 took place the first solo concert of Galkin at the festival “Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk”. From this moment on solo performances of the actor became regular.
