Events of July 16 in Belarusian and world history.
Date of the day
On July 16, 1054, the papal legates announced the excommunication of the Patriarch of Constantinople
Michael Cerularius
, and he the legates.
This date is considered the beginning of the Great Schism, which divided the Christian Church, which had been united until then, into two parts: Catholic and Orthodox.
Also on this day
1941 - German troops occupied Smolensk.
1945 - the USA conducted the first successful test of an atomic bomb at a test site in the state of New Mexico.
1951 - the famous novel "The Catcher in the Rye" by the American writer
Jerome Salinger
was published .
1990 — the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the Declaration on State Sovereignty.
1990 — The Council of Ministers of the BSSR declared the complex of monuments of history and culture in Polatsk the Polatsk historical and cultural reserve of republican importance.
2005 — the 4th Congress of Belarusians of the World began in Minsk.
They were born on this day
1863 -
Tikhan Kibardin
, Belarusian architect.
Under his leadership, in 1890 and 1902, general plans for the development of Vitebsk were developed.
1872 -
Roald Amundsen
, Norwegian traveler.
Foresight and prudence are equally important: foresight is to notice difficulties in time, and prudence is to prepare in the most careful way to meet them.
Roald Amundsen
1879 —
Vasil Raghulya
, Belarusian social and political figure.
1908 -
Yurka Liavonna
, Belarusian poet.
Shot by Soviet punitive authorities in 1938.
1968 —
Larry Sanger
, one of the founders and editor-in-chief of Wikipedia.
In memory
1976 —
Yan Stankevich
, Belarusian linguist, historian, political figure.
1985 —
Heinrich
Böhl
, German writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1989 —
Herbert von Karajan
, Austrian conductor.
1990 -
Mikalai Orehva
, a figure of the revolutionary movement in Western Belarus, Belarusian historian.
2005 —
Yanina Kakhanovskaya
, daughter of the Belarusian emigration to the USA, grandmother of the singer Danchyk.