April 26 name days and other interesting facts – Respublika.lt

Own name days Today, Dargailė, Gailėne, Gailenis, Klaudija, Klaudijus, Marcelina, Sandinga, Sandingas, Selma, Selmas are celebrating.

April 26th – International Day against Noise; World Intellectual Property Day; International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Chernobyl Accident.

This day:

in 1792 The King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania Stanislaus Augustus granted Daugams the rights of a free city and a coat of arms.

in 1919 the Lithuanian Peasants’ Union was established.

in 1926 Mečislovas Jučas, a historian and researcher of medieval history, was born in Vabaliai, Radviliškis district. Died in 2019

in 1941 The Marijampolė drama theater showed the first performance – Kazios Binkis’s Atžalynas.

in 1989 the Society of Lithuanian Geographers, which operated in 1936-1940, was restored.

in 1994 The presidents of Lithuania and Poland, Algirdas Brazauskas and Lech Walęsa, signed an interstate agreement on friendly relations and good neighborly cooperation in Vilnius.

in 1997 the award of the Friends of the Opera Society was presented for the first time. “Kipras” went to opera prima donna Irena Milkevičiūta.

in 2001 The Seimas recognized May 1 – International Labor Day – as a national holiday.

in 2002 Akropolis, the largest shopping and entertainment center in the Baltic States at the time, was opened in Vilnius.

in 2007 while strengthening the protection of the external border of the European Union with Russia, a new checkpoint of the State Border Guard Service was opened in the village of Bardinai, Pagegiai municipality.

in 2010 well-known translator and editor Algimantas Antanavičius died in his 80s.

Quote of the day: “If you repay good for bad, what will you repay for good?” (Confucius).