Dates of the day

• On October 23, 1893,

  Yavhim Karsky

  successfully defended his master's thesis "On the history of sounds and forms of Belarusian speech" at Kyiv University.

  It was the first dissertation in history devoted to the Belarusian language.

• On October 23, 1924, bus traffic began in Minsk.

• On October 23, 1956, an anti-communist uprising broke out in Hungary, which was suppressed by Soviet military intervention.

Also on this day

• 1958 - Soviet Russian writer

  Boris Pasternak

  received the Nobel Prize for the novel "Doctor Zhivago", which became a bestseller in the West, but was not published in his country.

They were born on this day

1816 —

, Belarusian poet, playwright, publicist and folklore researcher, one of the pioneers of new Belarusian literature.

Artem Vyaryga-Darewski

1896 - Russian and American linguist and literary critic

.

1909 -

, military and political figure, president of the Belarusian Central Council (1987–1995).

In memory

1941 —

, a Belarusian playwright, died in the Soviet Gulag.

1981 —

, Belarusian writer and journalist, died.

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