2023-05-01 23:01:24
Date of the day
- On May 2, 1977, a passenger train collided with an electric train at the Kryzhovka railway station near Minsk. According to official data, 22 people died, according to unofficial data – up to 200 people. It was the biggest railway disaster in the history of Belarus.
- Flag Day of the Republic of Poland has been celebrated since 2004.
Also on this day
1808 – an uprising against the French occupation began in Spain.
1892 — the first electric tram was launched in Kyiv.
1920 — the first issue of the magazine “Run” was published in Minsk, edited by Yanko Kupala.
1933 – in Nazi Germany, the activity of all trade unions is prohibited, the heads of trade unions are arrested.
[1945—commanderofthedefenseofBerlin Helmut Weidling signed the order on the surrender of the Nazi capital.
1984 — Soviet dissident physicist Andrei Sakharov began a hunger strike (until August 6) after the Soviet government rejected his wife Elena Bonner in permission to travel abroad in order to do the necessary operation.
2011 – US intelligence services killed the leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network in Pakistan Osama bin Laden.
They were born on this day
1729 — Catherine IIthe Russian empress, under whom the Grand Duchy of Lithuania became part of the Russian Empire.
1888 — Ivan VitkovskyBelarusian historian.
In memory
1519 — Leonardo da VinciItalian artist, architect, thinker.
1997 — Valery Shablukhistorian, participant of the national democratic movement of the 1980s and 1990s.
2009 — Fedor Shmakov, Belarusian actor, director, People’s Artist of the USSR.
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