This day is in history

1814

— Union troops of the anti-Napoleonic coalition entered Paris.



1856

— a peace treaty was signed that ended the Crimean War between Russia and Great Britain, France and Turkey.



1867

- a treaty was signed in Washington, according to which the USA bought Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million dollars.



1981

— an attempt was made on US President

Ronald Reagan

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Agents of the Secret Service at the time of the assassination attempt on US President Ronald Reagan, March 30, 1981.

They were born on this day

1746

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Francisco Goya

, Spanish painter.



1844

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Paul Verlaine

, French poet.

1853

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Vincent van Gogh

, Dutch artist.

Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1887

1940 —

Ales Marachkin

, Belarusian artist, painter, teacher, public figure.

1945

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Eric Clapton

, one of the world's greatest blues guitarists.



1953

Valery Maslyuk

, theater director, poet, one of the founders of the Belarusian People's Front.

In memory

1689

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Kazimir Lyshchinsky

, a philosopher from Brest.

For the treatise "On the Non-Existence of God", Lyshchynsky was publicly beheaded, his body was burned, and the ashes were shot from a cannon.

1890

Iosafat Agryzka

, Belarusian publisher, journalist, public and political figure.



1992

Olga Tereshchatova

, art critic, participant of the national-cultural movement of the 1970s-1980s and the national-democratic movement of the 1980s-early 1990s.



2017

Mykola Rizhi

, a famous Belarusian illustrator and artist of philatelic products.