Date of the day

On September 15, 1862,

, poet, local historian, participant of the national liberation movement of the 1860s, political prisoner, died.

This day is in history

1916

- during the First World War, tanks were used for the first time in the Battle of the Somme.

1922

— the Belarusian State and University Library was founded in Minsk.

1971

— the international environmental organization Greenpeace was founded in Vancouver (Canada).

1995

- President of Kazakhstan

orders to move the capital from Almaty to Astana.

Astana (now Nursultan)

1997

- the Google search engine site was launched.

They were born on this day

1254

-

, Venetian merchant, traveler, writer.

1890

-

, famous English author of detective stories.

Agatha Christie

1911

-

, Belarusian poet, translator.

1929

-

, Belarusian graphic artist.

Arlen Kashkurevich

1930

-

, Soviet philosopher.

Merab Mamardashvili

In memory

1937

—

, statesman, victim of Stalinist repressions.

1954

-

, Belarusian artist, archaeologist, writer, ethnographer and folklorist of the first half of the 20th century.

Yazep Drozdovich.

Self-portrait.

1943

1965

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, priest;

persecuted by the Bolshevik and Polish authorities in the 1920s and 1930s.

1975

-

, Soviet aircraft designer, one of the founders of jet and supersonic aviation, born in Belarus.

Memorial plaque in memory of Pavel Sukhoi, Gomel Technical University

2019

—

, scientist, rector of Polotsk State University.