06.03

1521 - Magellan and the company during the voyage of exploration opened three most southerly island of the Marianas group. He called them at first Ladrones, that is to say either Thieves Bandit, something like that. Since the natives tyrili all that bad lay. I had to use force to burn the huts and a little thin out the size of the natives. Well, all the program of colonization. Next - even sadder. Magellan stepped into local tribes and disassembly during the showdown was killed by one of the leaders. The expedition ended without him.
And the island was renamed later, after their colonization by the Spaniards in 1688, in honor of Mary Anne of Austria

1899 - invented aspirin. More precisely, Felix Hoffmann received a patent. It can be argued that aspirin - one of the most important drugs of the 20th century. Salicylic (spiraevuyu) acid was isolated from willow bark. Where, in fact, the name and born "and" - acetyl, "Spirit" - of Spiraea, the Latin name for meadowsweet

1918 - The disappearance in the Bermuda Triangle "Cyclops" vessel. The ship was a military team - 306 people. As the water sank, sorry. Well, Bermuda ...

1925 - Saw the first issue of the "Pioneers of the truth." Newspapers are published twice a week, I enjoyed quite popular unholy. When there is no alternative in children's publications - not surprising. Yes, it was there and a lot of light and sweet, no doubt. But the washing of children's brains and tendentious presentation, as an organ of the Komsomol, the newspaper could not suffer. Millions of copies, hundreds of thousands of children's letters, many of which were published in its pages, as "materials from the field", ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now, keeping the name of the newspaper changed the format and is published 4 times a month ...