Date of the day

On August 15, 1969, the Woodstock rock music festival began on one of the farms in Bethel, New York.

About 500,000 people visited it.

Fest became a symbol of the end of the "hippy era".

The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grateful Dead and others performed at the festival.

Also on this day

1068 –

Prince Vsiaslav

of Polotsk , captured in Kiev, was released.

The Kiyans rebelled against their prince Izyaslav, deposed him and elected Vsiaslav in his place.

Palachanin reigned there for 7 months, but finally decided to return home to Polotsk.

1905 –

Yanko Kupala

made his debut in print with the poem "The Man".

1913 – the premiere of the famous play "Pavlinka" took place in Radashkevichi.

The play was staged by the Minsk Drama Circle, which was managed by

Florian Zhdanovich

, and the author himself,

Yanko Kupala

, was among the audience .

1921 — all Belarusian units in the Polish Army were liquidated, the Belarusian Military Commission was dissolved.

Performance "Pavlinka" in the Kupala Theater

​1945 - Korea gained independence from Japan.

1947 – India gained independence from Great Britain.

1971 — the Belarusian Library named after Franziska Skaryna was opened in London.

1979 — the Museum of Ancient Belarusian Culture was opened in Minsk.

They were born on this day

1769 -

Napoleon Bonaparte

, French emperor.

1771 -

Walter Scott,

English writer.

1831

-

Vintses Karatynskyi , Belarusian poet and journalist.

1923 —

Shimon

Peres , Israeli politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, born in Vishnev, Volozhyn Oblast.

1925 -

Oscar

Peterson , Canadian jazz pianist.

Boris Sachanka

1936 —

Barys Sachanka

, Belarusian writer, translator and publisher.

1960 - Ihar Varashkevich, Belarusian musician, leader of the band "Krama"

In memory

1762 -

Michal Kazimer Radzivil "Rybanka"

, a statesman and philanthropist from Velikalytovsk, died.

1954 —

Yazep Drozdovich

, Belarusian artist, sculptor, ethnographer, died.

1972 —

Levon Borazna

, a Belarusian artist, decorative and applied art and cultural researcher, dissident, was killed.

1985 —

Chaslav Budzka

, a Belarusian émigré, historian, teacher, died.

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