Events of December 20 in Belarusian and world history.

Date of the day

On December 20, 1937, the NKVD authorities shot the historian

Vasyl Druzchyts

and the linguist Styapan

Nekrashevich

in Minsk .

Also on this day

1569 - Grand Duke

Zhygimont August

gave Sourazh the city coat of arms.

1812 – during the war with

Napoleon

's army, the Russian army occupied Hrodna.

1879 -

Thomas Edison

demonstrated the operation of the incandescent lamp.

1924 — the cultural and educational society "Belarusian House" was formed in Latvia.

1927 — the title of People's Artist of Belarus was awarded for the first time in history.

It was received by the playwright, actor and director

Vladislav Golubok

.

In 1937, Golubok was tortured in the cells of the NKVD.

Vladislav Golubok

They were born on this day

1840 -

Kazimer Alkhimovich

, artist, participant of the Kalinowski uprising.

1860 — philologist and ethnographer, academician

Yevhim Karsky

.

Yevhim Karsky

1890 — historian

Yazep Yadkovsky

, who created the Hrodna Historical and Archaeological Museum.

1910 —

Vytaut Tumash

, doctor, kerologist, Belarusian interwar couple in Vilnius and diaspora in the USA.

In memory

1968 -

John Steinbeck

, an American writer, died.