Date of the day

Doctor of history Yuri Turonak

died on January 2, 2019

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4 books by Yury Turonko that are worth reading

Also on this day

1518 - Franciszek Skaryna published Ecclesiastes in Prague

1793 - the second division of the Commonwealth took place.

1839 -

Louis

Daguerre took the first photograph of the Moon.

1843 - the first production of

Richard Wagner

's opera "The Flying Dutchman" took place in Dresden.

1981 - the publishing house "Youth" was founded in Minsk.

They were born on this day

1920 -

Isaac Asimov

, American science fiction writer.

Asimov was born in the village of Petrovichy, which at that time belonged to the BSSR (now in the Smolensk region of Russia).

In 1923, the Asimov family emigrated to the United States.

1928 -

Uladzimer Tvirka

, a member of the Belarusian emigration, a journalist.

1932 -

Bazyl Belakazowicz

, Polish literary critic, doctor of philology, professor.

He researched Belarusian literature of the 19th century, the work of Polish-Belarusian writers, Belarusian themes and motifs in Polish literature and Polish in Belarusian.

In memory

1864 -

Ignat Zdanovich

, one of the leaders of the uprising of 1863-1864.

In Belarus and Lithuania.

1946 -

Fabian Abrantovich

, Belarusian religious and public figure, theoretician and practitioner of national unionism.

At the end of September 1939, he was arrested by the Soviet security authorities and spent more than 5 years in prison.

He died from torture in the Butyr prison.

The place of burial is unknown.

1950 -

Yusof Yadkovsky,

archaeologist, numismatist, local historian, researcher of the history of Hrodna region.

In 1922, he founded the historical and archaeological museum in Hrodna.

1986 -

Vladimir Tarasevich

, Catholic Benedictine priest, bishop, doctor of theology, apostolic visitor for Belarusian Catholics in the West.

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