Date of the day
He was born on April 14, 1885 Simon Rak-Mikhailovskypublic and political figure, member of the Council of the Belarusian People’s Republic, publicist, founder and director of the teachers’ seminary in Baruny (1920–1922).
Also on this day
1432 – began to reign Zhygimont KeistutavichGrand Duke of Lithuania.
1849 – the Hungarian rebels announced the independence of Hungary from Austria.
1871 – a parliament – the Reichstag – was established in Germany.
1894 — the first public demonstration of the film projector took place Thomas Edison.
1912 – the ship “Titanic” collided with an iceberg and sank.
1956 — English inventors demonstrated how a video recorder works.
1978 — The Supreme Soviet of the BSSR adopted the “Brezhnev” Constitution of Belarus, the last in the Soviet empire (valid until 1994).
1988 — founded the Belarusian Students’ Association in Warsaw.
2011 — The UN Security Council condemned the terrorist attack in the Minsk metro, which happened on April 11. The first 8 victims of the terrorist attack were buried in Minsk.
2012 — a former presidential candidate, a political prisoner, was released from the Vitebsk colony Andrei Sannikov.
They were born on this day
1835 — Valerian Vilchevskiia doctor, a participant in the uprising of 1863–1864.
1880 — Joseph Dillapublic figure, writer.
1920 — Aleksey Karpyukwriter, public figure.
1961 — Aryna Vyachorka (born Powzik), historian, teacher, participant of the national-cultural movement of the 1970s and 1980s and the national-democratic movement of the 1980s — the beginning of XXI century.
1962 — Pyotr Martsevjournalist and publisher.
In memory
1101 — Vsiaslav Brachyslavovich (The Wizard)prince of Polotsk.
1347 — Anthonyone of the three Vilnius martyrs, hanged.
1707 — Todar Abukhovichstatesman and military figure of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, memoirist.
1939 — Pavlyuk Shukailawriter, victim of Stalinist repressions.
2003 — Zora Kipelbibliographer, literary critic, publicist, socio-cultural girl of emigration to the USA.
