Events of October 7 in Belarusian and world history.

A day in history

1571

- Battle of Lepanto between the fleet of the Holy League and the fleet of the Ottoman Empire, one of the largest naval battles in history.

The complete victory of the Christian fleet, the end of the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean Sea.

1897

- the "Bund" - the General Jewish Workers' Union in Lithuania, Poland and Russia - was established in Vilnius.

The "Bund" was a proletarian and at the same time a national Jewish organization.

Six months after its creation, the first congress of the RSDLP will be held in Minsk under the auspices of the Bund, in which the Bund will be an autonomous part.

1977

— the last Constitution of the USSR was approved.

2001

— American airstrikes on

Osama bin Laden

's bases in Afghanistan began.

2002

— the committee on education, science and culture of the Lithuanian Diet adopted a resolution on the resumption of activities of the

Ivan Lutskevich Belarusian Museum in Vilnius.

Ivan Lutskevich

They were born on this day

1765

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Michal Cleofas of Oginsky,

statesman of the Republic of Poland, diplomat, composer.

Monument to Mikhail Cleofas Aginsky in Slonim

1788

Ivan Nasovich,

Belarusian linguist-lexicographer, folklorist, ethnographer, author of the "Dictionary of the Belarusian Language", published in 1870.

In addition to this dictionary, Nasovich published collections of folk songs, proverbs and riddles.

1885

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Niels Bohr

, Danish physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize.

Niels Bohr

1918

-

Israel Basau

, Belarusian painter and graphic artist.

1931

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Desmond Tutu,

bishop from the Republic of South Africa, laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize.

1932

Ivan Ptashnikov,

Belarusian writer.

Among the most famous works are the stories "Lions", "Archibal", "The Chase", the stories "Lonva", "Tartak", "Najdorf", the novels "Avengers" and "Olympiad".

1952

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Vladimir Putin

, President of Russia.

In memory

1849

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Edgar Allan Poe,

American poet, novelist, essayist, leading figure of American romanticism, one of the founders of the detective genre.

Edgar Poe, portrait

1939

Roman Skirmunt,

Belarusian and Polish public and political figure.

Roman Skirmunt

2006

Anna Politkovskaya,

Russian journalist (murdered).

Anna Politkovskaya