In history:

1919

— the manifesto on the creation of the Belarusian SSR and the main provisions of its state status were published.

1919

— the Belarusian gymnasium was opened in Vilnius (it worked until 1944).

1927

— the Soviet penal authorities arrested the Belarusian playwright Františko Alyakhnovich and exiled him to Solavki for 10 years.

But in 1933, Alyakhnovich was exchanged for Polish prison inmate, politician and linguist Branislav Tarashkevich.

Alyakhnovich will write a book about his time in the Gulag, "In the Hoods of the GPU", which will immediately be translated into European languages ​​and will become the first public testimony of a Stalinist political prisoner.

1929

— Academy of Sciences of the BSSR was opened in Minsk.

It was created on the basis of the Institute of Belarusian Culture, founded in 1922.

Academy of Sciences

1956

– the first transmission of the television center in Minsk took place.

1967

– the main editorial office of the Belarusian Soviet Encyclopedia was founded.

Born on this day:

1861 –

, Belarusian philologist-Slavologist, founder

Yevhim Karsky

of Belarusian linguistics and literary studies.

1909 –

, Ukrainian political figure

1920 –

, a figure of the Belarusian national movement in the 1940s, one of the leaders of the Union of Belarusian Youth, after the war in emigration (Belgium, Canada), since 1971 the deputy chairman of the Council of the Belarusian People's Republic

1937 –

, economist, former chairman of the National Bank of Belarus

1938 –

, Belarusian poetess.

1945 –

, Belarusian writer.

1952 –

, Belarusian politician, disappeared in 1999.

1961 –

, Belarusian journalist, publisher, public figure, deputy of the BNF Opposition in the Supreme Council of the 12th convocation, editor of the Svaboda newspaper.