2023-05-07 23:01:14
Date of the day
May 8, 1945 the act of capitulation of Germany was signed. This is how the Second World War in Europe ended.
Also on this day
1674 — he was elected king of the Commonwealth and grand duke of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Yan Sobieski.
1984 — The Soviet Union announced a boycott of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, USA.
1989 – the first issue of the Polish “Gazety Wyborcza” as a body of the independent trade union “Solidarity” was published.
1993 — the Society of Free Writers was formed.
1999 — the SOBR commander in Minsk Dmitry Pavlichenko returned to the head of the prison Oleg Alkaev shooting gun. In his report, the head of the criminal investigation, General Nikolai Lopatik expressed the opinion that the ex-Minister of Internal Affairs, who disappeared the day before, was killed with this gun Yury Zakharanka.
They were born on this day
1883 — Stepan Nekrashevich, linguist, pro-independence activist, representative of the Government of the Belarusian People’s Republic in Ukraine, first chairman of the Institute of Belarusian Culture, academician of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus, author of academic dictionaries. Shot by the NKVD in 1937.
1937 — Levon Shymanetslong-term chairman of the Association of Belarusians of France “Havrus”, brother Ivonka Survila.
In memory
1551 – died Barbara RadziwillGrand Duchess of Lithuania, Queen of Poland.
1880 – the French writer died Gustav Flaubert.
2005 – died Peter Drachov, artist, participant of the national-democratic movement of the 1980s — beginning XXI century.
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