Date of the day

was born on August 3, 1926 (officially September 3, 1927)

, writer and literary critic, public figure, participant of the national-democratic movement of the 1980s - beginning of

XXI century.

*The official date of birth, fixed in encyclopedias, is the result of the fact that during the war, the mother "rejuvenated" her son by more than a year, saving him from deportation to Germany.

Also on this day

1492

- the first expedition of the Italian navigator

began .

He wanted to open the shortest sea route from Europe to India.

But as a result, the expedition discovered America.

Christopher Columbus

1678

- the Andrusov truce was concluded between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Principality of Moscow for 13 years, in exchange for Kyiv, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was given Velizh, Sebezh and Nevel.

- the Kobrin peasant uprising took place.

Incited by the Communist Party of Western Belarus, 100 peasants of Kobrin district armed themselves, destroyed several homesteads of the settlers and besieged the police station in the village of Navaselki all night.

The next day, the authorities dispersed the rebels.

30 people received different terms of imprisonment.

1940

— Lithuania joined the USSR.

They were born on this day

1923

-

, a member of the anti-Nazi resistance.

Died in the battle with the Nazis, who attacked the apartment.

—

, historian, participant of the national democratic movement of the 1980s and 1990s.

1975

-

, musician, philanthropist, participant of the national-democratic movement of the 1990s - beginning

XXI century.

Yuri Blinov

1986

-

, Belarusian biathlete, four-time Olympic champion, two-time world champion, Hero of Belarus.

In 2020, she refused to join the Belarusian athletes who spoke out against violence against peaceful protesters.

In memory

1994

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, Soviet actor of Belarusian origin, People's Artist of the USSR.

2008

—

, writer and dissident, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1975, Paris