A day in history
1861 — the beginning of the Civil War in the USA.
1926 — the “Process of the 94s” began in Vilnius, a trial organized by the Polish authorities against the figures of the West Belarusian national movement.
1961 — Yuri Gagarin made the first human flight into space on the Vshod spacecraft.
1981 — the launch of the space shuttle “Columbia”, the first reusable manned space vehicle.
1995 — on the night of April 12 by order Alexander Lukashenko beat the deputies of the Supreme Soviet from the opposition of the Belarusian People’s Front, who the day before announced a hunger strike against Lukashenka’s initiative to hold a referendum on changing the symbols, eliminating the status of the Belarusian language as the only state language, the right of the president to dissolve the parliament and economic integration with Russia.
They were born on this day
1541 — Ipati Pateiecclesiastical and statesman of the Commonwealth of Nations, Uniate Metropolitan.
1839 — Nikolai Przhavalysky, Russian geographer and traveler of Belarusian origin.
1890 — Yanka Nemanskand, Belarusian writer and public figure.
1948 — Natalia Sanko, scientist, publisher, participant of the national cultural movement of the 1970s and 1980s and the national democratic movement of the 1980s — beginning XXI century.
In memory
1969 — Sergey Malafeevdoctor and Belarusian public and political figure.
1938 — Fyodor Chaliapina Russian opera singer.
[1945 — Franklin Delano Rooseveltthe 32nd president of the United States.
