Date of the day
April 7, 1983 year died Larisa GeniusBelarusian writer, child of the Belarusian renaissance.
Also on this day
1348 – the emperor Charles IV founded a university in Prague.
1917 — the Congress of Belarusian national organizations opened in Minsk. 150 congress delegates developed the program of the Belarusian movement. The delegates created a Belarusian national committee headed by By Roman Skyrmuntdecided to found a Belarusian university and transfer all primary education in Belarus to the Belarusian language.
1939 – Fascist Italy attacked Albania.
1948 — the World Health Organization was founded.
1965 — Vladimir Karatkevich wrote the first lines of the novel “Christ Landed in Hrodna”.
1969 — the symbolic date of the birth of the Internet: a package of documents was published that proposed the theoretical principles of computer networks.
1994 — the beginning of the genocide in Rwanda — more than 900,000 people were killed in 100 days.
2009 — there were mass riots in Moldova caused by the results of the parliamentary elections.
2010 – during the second revolution in Kyrgyzstan, the president was removed from power Kurmanbek Bakievwho later found refuge in Belarus.
They were born on this day
1889 — Gabriel MistralNobel laureate in literature.
1897 — Yurka Novemberpublicist, teacher, participant of the Slutsk Uprising of 1920 and the anti-Bolshevik resistance of the 1920s, a victim of Stalin’s repressions.
1914 — Kirill MazuravSoviet communist figure, first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee in 1956–65.
1947 — Valer SlavukBelarusian artist.
In memory
1614 – died El GrecoSpanish artist.
1951 – died Siarhei Voytyakhovskya tsarist general who was born in Vitebsk, and later connected his life with Czechoslovakia.
1973 – died Joseph DillaBelarusian writer and cultural figure.
2006 – died Kastus Myslivetsa participant in the national democratic movement of the 1980s and the beginning of the 21st century.
