Date of the day

On September 27, 1909,

, writer, victim of Stalin's repressions, was born.

Lukash Kalyuga

This day is in history

1480

- the Spanish Inquisition was founded.

Death penalty according to the sentence of the Inquisition

1605

— the victory of the army of the Hetman of Polish

over the Swedes near Kirchholm

1821

- Mexico gained independence from Spain.

1920

- the troops of

occupied Pinsk.

Stanislav Bulak-Balakhovich

1941

— Syria declared itself an independent state.

1942

- the Nazis destroyed the ghetto in Janów Poleski.

2020

— the armed conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh began.

They were born on this day

1533

-

, King of the Commonwealth of Nations, Grand Duke of Lithuania.

Stefan Bathory

1871

-

, Italian poet, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1926.

1882

-

, Belarusian politician, teacher, editor, publicist, first director of Vilnius Belarusian Gymnasium.

Mikhail Kakhanovich

1892

—

, public and cultural figure, teacher;

the founder of the Horaden Belarusian Gymnasium, the ambassador of the Polish Diet in 1922–1927.

In 1933, he was arrested by the NKVD and died in the Gulag.

1903

-

, a girl of the liberation movement in Western Belarus, one of the organizers of the anti-Nazi underground in Vitebsk, publicist.

Vera Kharuzhaya

1982

—

, military man, participant of the national democratic movement of the 1980s — beginning

21st century, hero of the war in eastern Ukraine.

Ales Cherkashin

In memory

1551

-

, a statesman of the Great Patriotic War.

1612

-

, Jesuit preacher, first rector of Vilnius Academy and University.

1917

-

, French painter.

Edgar Degas, "Scene from the Ballet" (1879)

1958

—

, Belarusian composer.