Date of the day

Language Day is celebrated in Europe.

A day in history

1629 —

The Commonwealth and Sweden signed an armistice that ended the war of 1600–1629.

1655

- Russian troops burned Pinsk.

1815

- in Paris, Austria, Prussia and Russia signed a treaty on the creation of the Holy Union, the purpose of which was to suppress revolutionary and national liberation movements in Europe.

1960

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gave the longest speech in UN history, lasting 4 hours and 29 minutes.

1969 -

' last studio album

"Abbey Road" was released

Abbey Road in London, August 8, 1969

1983

- Soviet Lt. Col.

averted a potential nuclear war when a malfunction in the missile warning system mistakenly reported an attack by the United States.

— the Belarusian Society of Archivists was established.

They were born on this day

1788

—

, Belarusian philologist, ethnographer and folklorist, creator of the dictionary of the Belarusian language

1849

—

, Russian physiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine (1904).

1888

-

, American poet, playwright and literary critic.

1889 - Martin Heidegger,

German philosopher.

1898

-

, American composer.

1910

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, Belarusian literary critic.

1925

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1932

―

, Russian writer, Soviet dissident

1965 -

, Ukrainian politician and businessman, President of Ukraine in 2014-2019.

In memory

1966

—

, Belarusian breeder.

He was one of the first in Europe to develop a methodology for treating and rejuvenating fruit trees.

Distributed more than 50,000 seedlings across Belarus.

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(married Goretskaya), Leonila, writer and translator;

participant of the national liberation movement

XX century.

Maxim Goretsky with his wife Leonila, children Leonid and Galina.

1923

1978

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, Belarusian physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus, rector of the Belarusian State University.

1990

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, Italian writer.