8 BC Horace, the greatest Roman lyric poet who died more than any other Greek or Roman poet, died. Works: "Satires", "Songs" or "Go", "Letters".

1570.- Italian architect and sculptor Jacopo Sansovino, master of perception and perfectly harmonized constructions and decor, has died. He made the statues "Neptune" and "Mars" on the stairs of the Doge's Palace and the marble relief in the box of the church "St. Mark".

1879.- The French assembly was moved from Versailles to Paris.

1895.- French writer Alexandre Dima Son died, laying the foundations of theatrical drama. He wrote 16 plays, including the dramatization of the novel The Lady with the Camellias. Other works: "Illegal Son", "Deniza", "Mr. Alphonse", "Half-World".

1895.- The Swedish manufacturer Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, wrote a will in Paris in which he left the interest of the large estate for the development of science, literature and peace activists. "Prizes should be awarded regardless of nationality," read the will, which established the Nobel Prize for the greatest achievements of the human mind.

1919.- After the First World War, in which it participated on the side of the Axis, Bulgaria signed a peace (Ney Peace Treaty, signed at Ney on the Seine) on the basis of which Dobrudja belonged to Romania, the coast of Thrace to Greece, and the cities of Strumica, Blagoevgrad and Tsaribrod. of the Kingdom of SCS.

1926.- Ahmet Bey Zogu signed a pact with Mussolini in Tirana to strengthen his reactionary feudal regime in Albania.

1940.- Nazi Germany annexed (and formally) the French provinces of Laurent (Lorraine) and Alsace in World War II.

1940.- In Romania, the pro-fascist Iron Guard killed more than 60 aides to fugitive King Charles II, including former Prime Minister Nicole Jorg.

1942.- American rock singer, guitarist and songwriter of African descent Jimi Hendrix was born, one of the most popular musicians in the world in the sixties of the 20th century. He died in 1970 of a drug overdose.

1944.- In the village of Gorobinci, Sveti Nikole, the cornerstone of the new church "St. Spas" was consecrated and laid.

1946.- The Thessaloniki party newspaper "Laki Foni" published a list of about 100 people from the Lerin and Voden regions (mostly Macedonians) who were interned in the Aegean islands.

1953.- American writer Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, creator of modern American drama, winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature, has died. Works: "Behind the Horizon", "Anna Christie", "All the Children of God Have Wings", "The Great God Brown", "King Jones", "The Second Journey to Europe".

1990.- Finance Minister John Major has been elected Prime Minister and head of Britain's Conservative Party following the resignation of Margaret Thatcher.

1993.- In Kranj, Slovenia, at the Primary School "France Preshern", the teaching in Macedonian language for Macedonian children from preschool to high school age, citizens of the Republic of Slovenia, has started.

1995.- In Geneva, at the General Assembly of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the Macedonian Red Cross was accepted as an equal member of this association.

1996.- Prof. died in Skopje. Dr. Dimko Kepeski, one of the founders of the Clinic for Orthopedic Diseases in Skopje. He was born in Prilep, on September 14, 1918.

1997.- In Brussels, with the approval of the Council of Ministers of the Union, the Agreement on Cooperation and Transport between the European Union and the Republic of Macedonia was approved.

2000.- In western Norway, the Lerdahl Tunnel was opened, which with a length of 16,9 km surpassed St. Gotthard, the longest road tunnel in the world.

2001.- NASA says the Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the atmosphere of a planet 150 million light-years from Earth, the first direct discovery of an atmosphere outside our solar system.

2005.- A blast at a coal mine in northeast China's Helionjiang province has killed 183 miners.

2005.- Doctors in France were the first in the world to perform a partial face transplant on a patient whose face was disfigured by a dog attack.

2006.- The Canadian Parliament has decided to recognize the Francophone province of Quebec as a separate nation within Canada. This decision finally recognized the linguistic and cultural uniqueness of Quebec. Separatism in this province, which is one of the four that united and founded Canada in 1867, has repeatedly caused a serious crisis and even the establishment of a state of emergency.

2011.- Professor Olga Trojacanec, one of the doyens of Macedonian German studies, died. Olga Trojacanec was the first Macedonian to be awarded the Order of Merit by the President of Germany. She received the order in 2008, for her long-term merits in spreading the German language in Macedonia. From 1986 until her retirement in 2002 she was a professor and director of the Center for Foreign Languages ​​and a lecturer at the Faculty of Philology, and from 2002 she was the co-owner of the language school Lingwalink.