A day in history

On August 9, 2020

, presidential elections were held in Belarus.

They took place under the conditions of massive falsifications.

According to information announced by the CEC,

won 80.1%,

- 10.2%.

In many areas, independent observers recorded the undoubted advantage of Tsikhanovskaya.

Already in the evening of August 9, mass protests and detentions began, the latter acquired the scale of repression, which was unprecedented in the recent history of Belarus.

The international community did not recognize the election results.

Also on this day

1945

― the atomic bombing of Nagasaki by US aircraft took place.

Nuclear "mushroom" from the explosion of a nuclear bomb, Nagasaki, August 9, 1945.

1999

―

was appointed acting head of the Russian government.

They were born on this day

1910

-

, writer, child of the Belarusian renaissance.

Larisa Genius

1926

-

, activist of the Belarusian national movement, historian and journalist.

Yanka Zaprudnik

In memory

1516

-

, an artist of the Northern Renaissance of the XV-XVI centuries.

Ship of Fools, Geranimus Bosch

1870

-

, English writer.

Charles Dickens

1943

-

, a French artist originally from Belarus, died.

Painting by Chaim Soutin "Eve"

1976

-

, Belarusian writer.

Ivan Melezh