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.