Date of the day:

On September 30, 1931 ,

Neil Gilevich

was born

, the national poet of Belarus, the author of the verse novel "Native Children", the collections "Leaves to the Plantain", "On the Flute of Solitude" and others.

In 1985–1996, Gilevich was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the BSSR of the 11th and 12th convocations, he is one of the founders and the first chairman of the Society of the Belarusian Language named after Skaryna.

Photo gallery: A monument was opened at the grave of the poet and statesman Nilo Gilevich.

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On November 23, a monument on the grave of the national poet of Belarus Nilo Gilevich was solemnly opened at the Calvary cemetery in Minsk.

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A day in history

1452

-

Jan Gutenberg

published the first printed book, which was named "Gutenberg's Bible"

.

1939

-

Władysław Sikorski

headed the Polish government-in-exile.

1965

— As a result of the putsch, the leader of Indonesia,

Sukarno

, was removed from power, and General

Suharto

became the head of the country .

1999

— The beginning of the second war in

Chechnya

.

2005

- The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, which caused sharp protests and riots in the Muslim world.

2015

— The beginning of the Russian military operation in Syria.

They were born on this day

1728

Martin Pachobut-Odlyanytsky

, Belarusian scientist-educator, astronomer, one of the founders and the first director of the Vilnius Astronomical Observatory.

1882

-

Hans Wilhelm Geiger

, German physicist, inventor of the

radioactivity level counter.

1890

-

Antony Liashevich

, priest, victim of Nazi massacre.

1892

Zoska Veras

(born

Ludvik Sivitskaya

, married

Wojtyk

), writer, public girl, participant of the national liberation movement from

20th century, the national liberation movement of the 1920s–1930s in Western Belarus and the national cultural movement of the 1960s–1980s.

Zoska Veras in the 80s.

Photo by Serhiy Paniznyk

In memory

1934

-

Mitrofan Downar-Zapolsky

, Belarusian historian, one of the founders of Belarusian historiography.

Mitrofan Downar-Zapolski.

From the book "History of Belarus".

Mn., 1994. Artist Krivyanok A.V.

1939

Vladislav Sivy-Sivitsky

, Belarusian poet.

1992

-

Mikalai Birila

, Belarusian linguist.

1999

-

Dmitri Likhachev

, Russian philologist, academician, translator into modern Russian of "A word about Igor's campaign", "Tales of past years" and many other monuments of ancient Russian literature, prisoner of the Gulag.