Date of the day

On December 9, 1891,

was born in Minsk , poet, participant of the national liberation movement.

XX century.

This day is in history

1948 - The UN General Assembly approved the International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

1961 - in Jerusalem, an Israeli court found

guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to death.

In Nazi Germany, Eichmann headed the Jewish Department of the Main Directorate of Imperial Security.

Adolf Eichmann in an Israeli prison

1976 — the Belarusian State Museum of Folk Architecture and Life was founded.

1981 — a monument to

was opened in Minsk .

1990 —

won the presidential election in Poland.

Lech Valensa

was solemnly opened in the city of Stariya Darogi, Minsk region

.

2020 —

, the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus, who signed the Białowieża Agreements, died.

They were born on this day

1842 -

, Russian theoretician of anarchism, historian, writer.

Peter Kropotkin

1893 -

, Belarusian poet.

1916 -

, American actor, son of emigrants from Belarus.

Kirk Douglas

In memory

1268 -

, Grand Duke of Lithuania (killed).

1973 —

, literary critic, publisher, public figure, participant of the national liberation movement of the 1920s and 1930s in Western Belarus, a prisoner of Polish prisons and the Gulag.

2004 —

, Belarusian artist and designer.

2016 —

, honored teacher of Belarus, teacher of the Belarusian language at the Kolasau Lyceum.