Date of the day
On November 22, 1944,
Kuzma Chorny
, the author of the novels "Search for the Future", "Milky Way" and "Third Generation", died in Minsk.
Literary experts call Chorny the creator of the Belarusian socio-psychological novel.
Also on this day
1773
— the Belarusian Roman Catholic Diocese with its center in Mogilev was founded.
1918
-
Józef Pilsudski
was declared the "temporary head" of the Polish state.
Yusof Pilsudzki
1963
- President
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
was assassinated in the USA .
John Kennedy
2004
— the Orange Revolution began in Kyiv.
Independence Square, Kyiv, 2004
They were born on this day
1715
-
Antoni Adam Skarulski
, philosopher, educator, rector of Vilnius Academy.
1893
-
Ivan Surta
, academician, president of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR, who was shot in 1937.
1914
-
Ryhor Nya
, Belarusian writer.
1930
-
Vera Bartul
, a girl of Belarusian emigration.
In memory
1986
—
Mikalai Ulaszchyk
, Belarusian historian and archaeologist.
Mykola Ulaschyk
1953
-
Yanka Filistovich
, Belarusian activist in emigration, participant of the anti-Soviet resistance in Belarus, publicist.
Yanka Filistovich