Birthday of Ales Marachkin and Valery Maslyuk

This day is in history

1814 — Allied troops of the anti-Napoleonic coalition entered Paris.

1856 — the signed peace treaty, which ended the Crimean War of Russia with Great Britain, France and Turkey.

1867 — an agreement was signed in Washington, according to which the USA bought Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million dollars.

1981 — an attempt was made on the president of the USA Ronald Reagan.

Agents of the Secret Service at the time of the assassination attempt on US President Ronald Reagan, March 30, 1981.

They were born on this day

1746 — Francisco GoyaSpanish artist.

1844 — Paul VerlenFrench poet.

1853 — Vincent van Gogha Dutch artist.

Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1887

1940 — Ales MarachkinBelarusian artist, painter, teacher, public figure.

[1945 — Eric Claptonone of the world’s greatest blues guitarists.

1953 — Valery Maslyuktheater director, poet, one of the founders of the Belarusian People’s Front.

In memory

1689 — Kazimir Lyshchinsky, a philosopher from Brest. For the treatise “On the Non-Existence of God” Lyshchynsky was publicly beheaded, his body was burned, and the ashes were shot from a cannon.

1890 — Josaphat AgryzkaBelarusian publisher, journalist, social and political figure.

1992 — Olga Tereshchatovaart critic, participant of the national cultural movement of the 1970s and 1980s and the national democratic movement of the 1980s and early 1990s.

2017 — Mykola Rizhia well-known Belarusian illustrator and artist of philatelic products.