A day in history

1924 - Congress of former members of the Belarusian Party of Socialists-Revolutionaries in Minsk stated the self-dissolution of the party.

1949 - George Orwell's

famous novel "1984"



is published by the British publishing house Secker & Warburg .

1958 - the Belarusian literary association "Belovezhskaya Pravda" was founded in Bialystok.


1967 - a branch of the

Yakub Kolas

Museum was opened in Mykolaiv region .

Born on this day

1881 -

Victor Zelezey

, Belarusian public and political figure.

1894 -

Semyon Wolfson

, philosopher, literary critic, teacher.

One of the ideologues of harassment of "national democrats" in the BSSR in the early 1930s.

In memory

1956 - died

Jazep Farbotka

, Belarusian national figure, poet, member of the "Vilnius Photo Club"

Jan Bulhak

.



1991 -

Vladimir Shakhovets

, Belarusian translator and writer, dies.

2018 - literary critic

Mikhas Mushynsky

dies .

He worked at the Yanka Kupala Academic Institute of Literature, in 1978 he defended his doctoral dissertation.

He has published 340 scientific works, researched the works of Yanka Kupala, Yakub Kolas, Maxim Goretsky, Mikhail Zaretsky, achievements of criticism and literary criticism throughout the twentieth century.