Date of the day
On August 11, 1127,
Hrodna was mentioned for the first time in written sources in the Lawrence Chronicle.
Also on this day
480
BC
e.
- the battle of Thermopylae took place between the Persian army of Xerxes and the allied army of the Greek polis under the command of the Spartan king Leonidas.
1921
- in Soviet Russia, Savnarkam's decree on the implementation of a new economic policy (NEP) was published.
1988
— the terrorist community "Al-Qaeda" was formed.
2003
— NATO takes command of the international peacekeeping contingent in Afghanistan.
2020
– mass protests against falsification of presidential elections continued in Belarus.
They were born on this day
1856
-
Vladimir Dobravolsky
, Belarusian ethnographer.
1892
―
Władysław Anders
, general, head of Polish armed formations in 1944–1945, organizer of the so-called "Anders Army", formed in the USSR from former prisoners of war and forcibly deported citizens of pre-war Poland.
Under his command, during the Second World War, thousands of Belarusians fought against the Nazis in the Middle East and Italy.
1893
-
Edmund Rusetsky
, statesman of the BSSR.
He was the Deputy Commissar of Agriculture of the BSSR, shot in 1938.
1907
-
Alyaksei Baranovsky
, Belarusian actor, Honored Artist of Belarus.
In memory
1464 -
Nicholas of Cusan
, a German thinker, died.
1956 -
Jackson Pollock
, an American artist, died.
Exhibition of works by Jackson Pollock in Tehran, 2015