In the story:

1611 - troops of the Commonwealth after almost two years of siege took Smolensk.

1966 - The Vatican repeals the Index of Forbidden Books, introduced in 1557.

2009 - for the first time in Belarus a kidney transplant operation of a child from his relatives was performed.

On this day were born:

Radziwill Castle in Niasviž

1702 -

, great Lithuanian statesman, philanthropist.

1834 -

, author of the poem "Taras on Parnassus".

1889 -

, Belarusian public and political figure, journalist, one of the leaders of the Slutsk uprising of 1920.

1956 -

, Belarusian weightlifter, two-time world champion.

1966

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, poet, member of the national democratic movement of the 1980s and 1990s, persecuted by the KGB.

In memory

1864

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, one of the leaders of the 1831 anti-Russian uprising, dies.

- died

, Belarusian politician.

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, a political figure of the BSSR, dies.