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Historical calendar/ What happened on September 12

2023-09-12 15:22:00, Aktualitet CNA

1940 - An extraordinary collection of prehistoric paintings is discovered in the Lascaux cave in France

83 years ago near Montinjak, France, 4 teenagers accidentally discovered a rare collection of prehistoric paintings in a cave. The 15,000-17,000-year-old murals, mostly composed of animal images, are among the best examples of Upper Paleolithic art.

Originally studied by French archaeologist Henri Broil, Lasko Cave consists of a main tunnel 66 meters long and 16 meters high. The walls of the cave are decorated with about 600 painted animals and symbols, drawn in about 1500 carvings.

The murals depict in exquisite detail many types of animals, including horses, red deer, deer, cows, cats and what appear to be mythical creatures. There is only one human figure in the cave: a man with a bird's head. Archaeologists believe that the cave was used for a long period of time as a center for hunting and religious rites.

The Lasko Cave was opened to the public in 1948, but closed in 1963, after artificial lights had faded the vivid colors of the paintings, and algae had grown on some of them. An exhibition of replicas of the Lasko cave murals opened nearby in 1983, and is visited by tens of thousands of people every year.

Other important events:

1873 - The first typewriter for personal use was sold for the first time.

1878 - The trial for the patent for the invention of the telephone began. In it, the Bell Telephone Company filed a lawsuit against the Western Union Telegraph Company and Elisha Gray.

1918 - During World War I, at the Battle of St. Michael, US Army personnel first used tanks, which were manufactured in France.

1938 - During a speech, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler called for self-determination for Germans living in the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

1943 - During World War II, Fascist leader Benito Mussolini was freed by a commando of German paratroopers from prison where he had been imprisoned at the behest of the new Italian government, which came to power after the capitulation of the Italian army to the Allied forces.

1953 - Nikita Khrushchev was elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1974 - Emperor Haile Selasie is ousted by a military coup of Ethiopia after ruling the country for 58 consecutive years.

1984 - American basketball player Michael Jordan signed a 7-year contract with the Chicago Bulls team. With it, he would win many trophies, break many records, and become the greatest basketball player in the history of this sport./ Translated by CNA