Diary of human action

On November 3, 1943, Avram Chalovski died. He was known as one of the most significant Bulgarian industrialists and prominent donors at the beginning of the 20th century. He was called the "Bulgarian Henry Ford" by his contemporaries. He was born in 1854 in the then village of Galichnik on the territory of the Ottoman Empire, today part of …

On October 26, 1954, the State Academy of Music was transformed into an independent educational institution. At the same time, it was renamed the Bulgarian State Conservatory. It changed its name several times - in 1995 it was renamed the State Academy of Music "Prof. Pancho Vladigerov" after the famous Bulgarian composer Pancho Vladigerov, and since 2006 ...

On October 25, 1881, Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain - the most expensive and most stolen artist of the last 100 years. His full name is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso. Picasso is an artist in every …

On October 23, 2001, Apple announced the first version of the iPod. It was a music player with a 5 GB hard drive, compatible only with Macintosh systems. Its announcement came a few months after the release of iTunes, a program that converts audio CDs into compressed audio files and organizes a person's music collection.

On October 22, 1906, the foundation stone of the Varna Aquarium building was laid. The initiative came from Tsar Ferdinand, who sought advice from the director of the Naples Zoo and entrusted the organization of the construction of the aquarium to the prominent Bulgarian physician Dr. Paraskev Stoyanov. In the following months, Stoyanov settled the administrative issues with …

On October 21, 1833, Swedish engineer, chemist, and entrepreneur Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm. He is remembered in history as the man who invented dynamite and established the Nobel Prize. At the age of ten, Alfred moved with his family to St. Petersburg. At the age of eighteen, he left Russia and went to Paris, where he studied chemistry, …

On October 17, 1907, Guglielmo Marconi's company - "The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company" - launched the first transatlantic 24-hour wireless telecommunications service. Messages were transmitted via powerful radio transmitters developed by the Italian inventor and located in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland. On this …

On October 14, 1896, the State Drawing School (popularly known as the Drawing School) was opened in Sofia by Decree of Prince Ferdinand and thanks to the active support of prominent artists and public figures such as Konstantin Velichkov, Ivan Shishmanov, Ivan Mrkvichka, Anton Mitov, etc. As early as 1864, in the newspaper "Savetnik" Nikolay ...

At 2 a.m. on October 12, 1492, 33 days after setting sail from the Canary Islands, the sailor Rodrigo de Triana spotted land to the west, which Christopher Columbus called the island of San Salvador ("Holy Savior"). A boat was lowered from the ships and Columbus, along with two other captains, a notary and a royal comptroller, disembarked...

On October 11, 1968, NASA launched the Apollo 7 mission by launching the Apollo CSM-101 spacecraft into orbit. It was the first manned lunar mission of the Apollo program and a key step toward the conquest of the moon. The program successfully landed a man on the moon eight months later…