Instead of the term “cast iron road” in 1803, the term “railway” was first used in the Russian Empire. This was done in one of the publications of the St. Petersburg Commercial Vedomosti.
In 1946, 26 UN member states ratified the Charter of the World Health Organization. Since then, this date has been considered the founding day of the WHO.
On this day, but in 1994, an entry on the “.ru” domain appeared in the international database of national top-level domains.
Also in 1994, the first episode of the legendary TV show “Own Game” aired.
On April 7, Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891), who invented the LEGO designer in 1932, was born; Soviet-Russian theoretical physicist Leonid Keldysh (1931); American director Francis Ford Coppola (1939); martial artist and stuntman Jackie Chan (1954).
