2023-07-27 23:01:00
A day in history
1914 – Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, which started the First World War.
1944 – Brest was liberated from Nazi occupation.
1989 — The Supreme Council of the Latvian SSR declared the sovereignty of Latvia.
2000 — a memorial to Polish and Russian victims of the NKVD was solemnly opened in Katyn.
They were born on this day
1676 – Dominik Rudnitsky, Belarusian poet, rector of the Jesuit college in Nyasvizh
1812 — Joseph Ignatsy Kraszewski, Polish writer of Belarusian origin, author of the largest number of published books in the history of Polish literature. His works were translated into Belarusian Petro Bitel, Vasyl Semukha, Mikhas Kenka.
1943 — Richard Wrightkeyboardist of the Pink Floyd band.
In memory
1741 — Antonio VivaldiItalian composer.
1750 — Johann Sebastian BachGerman composer.
1897 — Yanka LuchynaBelarusian poet.
1920 — Ales HarunBelarusian writer.
1977 — Lion PeaBelarusian religious figure and scientist, editor-in-chief of “God’s Way” magazine, archimandrite of the Greek-Catholic Church.
Boris Keith and Father Lev Goroshka. Paris, 1958
1997— Leon LutskevichBelarusian public and cultural figure, teacher, memoirist.
Vilnius, “Forest Hut”. From left to right: Lyavon Lutskevich, Anatol Sidorevich, Siarhei Dubavets, Zoska Veras. The beginning of the 1980s. Photo by Sergey Ostravtsov
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