2023-04-18 23:01:00
Date of the day
He was born on April 19, 1881 Vsevolad IgnatovskyBelarusian public figure, historian, first president of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
Also on this day
1670 – the city of Lida received Magdeburg law.
1783 – Crimea was annexed to Russia by decree of the Russian empress Catherine II. Until then, the peninsula was never Russian, although many consider it to be Russian land from time immemorial.
1919 — Polish troops took over the then capital of the Vilnius region from the Russian Bolsheviks. On the same day, the last bison was killed in Białowieża Pushcha. Today’s bison are the result of population recovery.
1943 – an armed uprising against the Nazis began in the Warsaw ghetto.
They were born on this day
1881 — Valentin VolkovPeople’s Artist of the BSSR.
In memory
1519 – died Wojciech Radzivila religious figure of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, bishop of Lutsk and Vilna.
1602 – died Yan Abramovichvoivode of Minsk and Smolensk, publisher of the Catechism (1598) with 300 religious songs.
1824 – died George ByronEnglish poet.
1882 – died Charles DarwinEnglish naturalist.
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