International Children's Book Day
is celebrated on April 2, the birthday of H.K. Andersen .
A day in history
1996
— a mass march took place in Minsk against the signing
by Boris Yeltsin
and
Alexander Lukashenko
of the treaty on the creation of a community of Russia and Belarus.
1997
— signing of the treaty on the creation of the union of Belarus and Russia.
Alexander Lukashenko and Boris Yeltsin after signing the agreement on the formation of the union of Belarus and Russia, 1997
They were born on this day
742
-
Charlemagne
, king of the Franks, emperor of the Roman Empire.
Coronation of Charlemagne.
Vatican Museum
1805
-
Hans Christian Andersen
, Danish storyteller.
1832
-
Paval Bobrovsky
, Belarusian historian and ethnographer.
1875
—
Walter Percy Chrysler
, American entrepreneur, founder of the Chrysler automobile corporation.
1885 -
Simon Rak-Mikhailovsky
, Belarusian writer, public and political figure.
Ambassador to the Seimas of the Second Commonwealth of Nations.
In memory
1968
-
Yakub Kharewski
(born
Novik
), a member of the armed resistance of the 1920s in Western Belarus, one of the leaders of the anti-Soviet armed resistance of the 1940s, died.
1995
—
Pimen Panchanka
, national poet of Belarus.
2005
—
John Paul II
, Pope of Rome.
Monument to John Paul II in Mogilev
2009
—
Raisa Zhuk-Gryshkevich
, a member of the Belarusian diaspora in Canada, a member of the Council of the BNR, editor of the "Communications" publication.
Raisa Zhuk-Gryshkevich