Date of the day
Janka Bril
was born on August 4, 1917
, writer, participant of the national-democratic movement of the 1990s — beginning.
XXI century.
Also on this day
1392 - the Ostrovsk Agreement was signed, which ended the civil war in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
1579 - the beginning of the siege of Polotsk by the troops of the Commonwealth led by Stepan Batur.
Stephan Batory (Stephan Batur)
They were born on this day
1901 -
Louis Armstrong
, American musician.
1904 -
Witold Hambrowicz
, Polish novelist, playwright, essayist.
1947 -
Mykola Selyashchuk,
artist, participant of the national liberation movement of the 1980s and 1990s.
Mykola Seleshchuk,
1961 -
Barack Obama
, the 44th president of the USA.
Svetlana Tsikhanovskaya and Barack Obama, June 18, 2022
In memory
1875
-
Hans Christian Andersen
, Danish writer.
2009
—
Vladimir Shaton
, linguist, translator, teacher.