Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is the polymathic genius
300 years have passed since the death of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1.07.1646-14.11.1716) - German philosopher, scientist, politician, diplomat, one of the most versatile geniuses in history.
The 6th of September, 2016 it has been 250 years since the birth of famous English scientist John Dalton.
The great Polish composer Frederic Chopin was born on March 1 (Feb. 22, Old Style), 1810 near Warsaw. In the village where he lived as a child and where subsequently often spent his summers, Frederic became interested in folk songs and dances.
March 20 world marks the 100 anniversary of the birth "Musician of the Century", the pianist Sviatoslav Richter. For Ukraine it is a special event, because a great artist is our countryman.
Scientific and technical progress of humanity in the twentieth century is difficult to imagine without the use of invisible rays that are called X-ray. These rays are used in the technics, science, and medicine.
One hundred years ago the pilot Peter Nesterov died in the implementation of the world’s first air ram on a German aircraft. Peter Nesterov is known as the pilot, who first in the world performed aerobatics “loop”.
120th anniversary of Alexander Dovzhenko, which Ukraine celebrated on September 10, took place in a difficult time. The first time in the last seven decades there is a war inside the country..
The name of Ismail-bey Mustafa-oğlu Gasprinskiy (8.03.1851–11.09.1914) became for Crimean Tatars a symbol of revival of Turkism, a sign of changes, rejection of old dogmas and stereotypes. I. Gasprinskiy was one of the most well-known educators and reformers of the late XIX – early XX century. His ideas has influenced the preparation and carrying out reforms in the national school, the development of problems of his home school and creation of the first national textbooks.
Michaell Fedorovich Reshetnev - outstanding domestic scientist, designer, academician, Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of Lenin and State prizes, the organizer of the production systems of space telecommunications and rocket technology.
March 4, 1961 is the world's first ballistic missile that can carry nuclear warheads, was destroyed in flight by another, the so-called antimissile.
