Date of the day

On April 24, 1915,

the Turkish authorities began mass murders, arrests and deportations of the Armenian intelligentsia of Constantinople.

Later, this date will become the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire 1915–1923.

A march in Yerevan in memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide, a photo of 2017

Also on this day

1800

- US President

founded the Library of Congress, allocating $5,000 for the purchase of books.

1981

— the presentation of the first personal computer took place

They were born on this day

1889

-

, Belarusian social and political figure, publicist.

1900

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, Belarusian poet.

1936

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, English poet and translator from the Ukrainian and Belarusian languages.

Thanks to her, the poetry of Yanka Kupala, Yakub Kolas, Natalya Arsenneva, Maksim Bogdanovich, Ales Harun, Zmytrak Byadula, Tyotka, Larisa Geniyush, Nilo Gilevich, Vladimer Nyaklyaev was published in English.

Vera Rich, 2008.

1944

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, Belarusian politician, public and cultural figure.

1977

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, Belarusian writer.

In memory

2014 —

, Polish poet and playwright, died

.