Quote of the day
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
Mikhail Kalinin
Born: November 19, 1875
Died: June 3, 1946 (aged 70)
Bio: Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, known familiarly by Soviet citizens as "Kalinych", was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist Leninist functionary, who served as head of state of the Russian SFSR and later of the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1946.