A day in history

1527

— the army of the Great Patriotic War led by

Konstantin Ostroski

defeated the Crimean Tatars in the battle on the Alshanitsa River (between Kanev and Kiev).



1880

-

Thomas Edison

patented the electric light bulb.



1906

Ivan Pulikhov

together with

Aleksandra Izmailovich

attempted an assassination attempt on the Minsk governor

Pavlo Kurlov

.



1913

— the first performance of

Yanka Kupala

's comedy "Peacock" took place in Vilnius.

1944

— the blockade of Leningrad was lifted.



1945

- Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was occupied by Soviet troops.

1973

- the Paris Agreement was concluded to end the war in Vietnam.

They were born on this day

1756

-

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

, Austrian composer.



1832

-

Lewis Carroll

, English writer, mathematician and photographer.

1904

Ivan Chimburg

, Belarusian philosopher-Marxist, rector of BSU.



1935

-

Zinovii Babii

, Belarusian opera singer.

1948

-

Mikhail Baryshnikov

- ballet dancer, ballet master.

In memory

1901

-

Giuseppe Verdi

, Italian composer.



1927

- blessed

Yury Matulevich

, Roman Catholic deacon of Belarus, Lithuania and Poland.

Bishop (later Archbishop) of Vilnius, restored and headed the Marian order, founded the Marian monastery in Drui.

1983

-

Louis de Funes

, French actor.



2003

Nina Abramchyk

, Belarusian social and political activist, writer.

2010

-

Jerome David Salinger

, American writer.