Date of the day

On October 28, 1950,

Rostislav Lapitsky

, one of the leaders of the post-war anti-Soviet Resistance of the 1940s, a victim of Stalin's repressions, was shot.

Rostislav Lapitsky

This day is in history

1523 -

Mykola Husowski

's Latin poem "The Song of the Bison" was published in Krakow - a classic work of Belarusian literature of the Middle Ages.

1886 - the official unveiling of the Statue of Liberty took place in New York.

Statue of Liberty, New York

1892 -

Emile Renault

presented "luminous pantomimes" at the Greven museum;

"International Day of Animation" was founded for the anniversary of this event.

1918 — declaration of independence of Czechoslovakia.

1939 - the People's Assembly of Western Belarus began its work in Bialystok, which adopted the Declaration on the inclusion of Western Belarus into the BSSR.

The meeting was preceded by elections at which 926 deputies were elected.

The People's Assembly had a formal character, as it was held under the full control of the authorities.

1939 — the troops of the Republic of Lithuania, on the basis of the previous agreement with Moscow, occupied Vilnius.

1942 - the Nazis destroyed the ghetto in Pinsk.

1962 - Soviet leader

Nikita Khrushchev

announced the withdrawal of Soviet nuclear missiles from Cuba.

Before that, the Caribbean missile crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.

They were born on this day

1845 -

Zygmunt

Urublewski, scientist-physicist, participant of the uprising of 1863-1864.

1884 —

Flyarian Zhdanovich

, actor, director, theater actor, one of the founders of professional Belarusian theater.

He was the artistic director of the First Belarusian Society of Drama and Comedy.

In 1930, he was arrested and sentenced to three years of hard labor, which he served at Belamorkanal.

In 1938, Zhdanovich was arrested again.

His biography ended there.

1904 —

Ivan Satsunkevich

, Belarusian statesman, economist, one of the organizers and leaders of the underground and partisan movement in Menshchyna during the Second World War.

1904 —

Parfyon Savitsky

, Belarusian historian.

1955 -

Bill Gates

, founder of the computer company Microsoft.

Bill Gates

1972 —

Aleksandar Starykevich

, Belarusian publicist, public figure, organizer of the All-Belarusian Congress for Independence.

Mykola Kupava, Siarhei Naumchyk, Ryhor Baradulin, Aleksandar Starykevich, Vasil Bykau, Zyanon Pazniak, Siarhei Papkov at the BNF rally.

Yanka Kupala Park, 1995

In memory

1704 -

John Locke

, English philosopher.

John Locke

1998 —

Ted Hughes

, English poet.