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
.
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
-
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
-
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.