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

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Antoni Adam Skarulski

, philosopher, educator, rector of Vilnius Academy.

1893

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Ivan Surta

, academician, president of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR, who was shot in 1937.

1914

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Ryhor Nya

, Belarusian writer.

1930

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Vera Bartul

, a girl of Belarusian emigration.

In memory

1986

Mikalai Ulaszchyk

, Belarusian historian and archaeologist.

Mykola Ulaschyk

1953

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Yanka Filistovich

, Belarusian activist in emigration, participant of the anti-Soviet resistance in Belarus, publicist.

Yanka Filistovich