Date of the day
On July 21, 2011,
Kazimer Svyontak
, archbishop, metropolitan of Minsk-Mogilev, the first cardinal in the history of independent Belarus, a prisoner of the Gulag, died.
Cardinal Casimir Svyontak
Also on this day
356 BC
e.
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Gerostratus
burned the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus.
1831 -
Leopold I
is elected constitutional monarch of the Kingdom of Belgium, celebrated as Belgium Day.
1917 — the Congress of Belarusian organizations and parties began in Minsk, which formed the Central Council of Belarusian Organizations.
1960 — Il-12 crash in Minsk.
8 people died.
1969 - the first earthling, the American astronaut
Neil Armstrong
, set foot on the moon.
Armstrong, together with astronaut
Edwin Aldrin
, landed Apollo 11 on the moon a day earlier - on July 20, 1969.
Astronaut Edwin Aldrin on the moon
1983 - the lowest temperature recorded on Earth in the entire history of observation was −89.2 ° C at the Vskhod Antarctic station.
They were born on this day
356 BC
e.
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Alexander the Great
, king of Macedonia, military leader, creator of the world empire.
1816 -
Paul Reuter,
the founder of the largest modern British news agency Reuters.
1860 -
Anton Kamensky
, Belarusian, Polish and French illustrator and graphic artist.
1891 -
Simon Kandybovich
, Belarusian statesman, historian.
1897 -
Vasyl Sokolovsky
, Soviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union, born in Belarus.
1899 —
Ernst Hemingway
, American writer, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1954.
Ernst Hemingway
In memory
1944 -
Klaus Schenk von Stauffenberg
, colonel of the German army, one of the organizers and executor of the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler (executed).
Klaus Schenk von Stauffenberg
1994 —
Vladislav Rubanov
, writer.