Date of the day

On January 24, 1939, the State Art Gallery of the BSSR - the current National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus - was founded in Minsk.

Also on this day

1924

— The first Winter Olympic Games were inaugurated in Chamonix, France.

2011

— 37 people were killed in a terrorist attack at Moscow's Domodedovo airport.

They were born on this day

1776

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Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

, German writer, composer, artist.

1827

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Alexander Dalewski

, one of the organizers of the Fraternal Union of Youth.

He survived prison, hard labor and exile.

1885

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Yuri Tarich

, Belarusian film director, who in 1926 shot the first Belarusian feature film "The Forest Was".

1901

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Yanka Shutovich

, Belarusian literary critic, publisher, public and cultural figure.

Yanka Shutovich

1931

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Mihas Mushinsky,

historian of Belarusian literature.

Mikhas Mushinsky

In memory

1911 —

Alexander Askerka

, a participant in the Kalinowski uprising

1965

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Winston Churchill

, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Winston Churchill

1971

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Uladzimer Uladomirsky

, Belarusian theater and film actor.

2018

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Valer Shyla

, Belarusian musician, saxophonist, social and political figure.

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