2023-04-27 23:01:00
Date of the day
April 28, 1900 year died Francishak Bagushevichpoet, lawyer, participant of the liberation uprising of 1863–1864, one of the initiators of the national revival.
Also on this day
1429 – Hundred Years’ War: French troops under command in the Battle of Orleans Joan of Arc won a victory over the English.
1918 — The People’s Secretariat of Belarus approved the Belarusian language as the state and compulsory language in the BNR and adopted a resolution on the opening of a university in Minsk.
[1945 – shot by Italian anti-fascist partisans Benito Mussolinithe founder of Italian fascism.
1954 — BSSR joined the World Labor Organization.
1975 — the withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam was completed.
1996 — a hunger strike of BPF leaders began in Minsk Yuri Khadiki and Vyacheslav Sivchyk. The day before that, they were put in the Minsk pre-trial detention center on Volodarsky Street for organizing the Chernobyl route. The imprisonment of Khadika and Sivchik lasted for about a month.
2001 — the first tourist flew into space. American engineer Denis Tito paid 20 million dollars for his one-week flight in the Russian “Soyuz”.
They were born on this day
1859 — Kyprian (Cyprian) Kondratovich, general, participant of the national liberation movement from XX century.
1940 — Vladimir Honcharikthe only opposition candidate in the 2001 presidential election.
In memory
1919 — Konstantin Sharkovshchinsky (Zhdanov)a Belarusian priest, was canonized by the Belarusian Orthodox Church.
1980 — Alfred Hitchcockan American film director.
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