Emperor Alexander II finally approved in 1857 the coat of arms of the Russian Empire. However, the image of the double-headed eagle “disappeared” from the coat of arms in 1917. They decided to return it after the collapse of the Soviet Union – in 1993.
In 1891, the highest decree of the Russian Emperor Alexander III was issued on the laying of the Great Siberian Road. Today, the length of the Trans-Siberian Railway is 8.3 thousand kilometers, which makes it the longest railway in the world.
On this day, but in 1963, the Beatles released the single From Me to You. This song went down in history as the first composition of the group, which was able to take the first place in the English charts.
On April 11, the English physician James Parkinson (1755) was born, who described “trembling paralysis”; circus performer and illusionist Emile Keogh (1894); Russian football coach Georgy Yartsev (1948); bassist of the German group Rammstein Oliver Riedel (1971).
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