May 1 name days and other interesting facts – Respublika.lt

Own name days Gražina, Vidmantas, Vidmantė, Zigmantas, Zigmas, Žilvinas, Žilvinė, Žygymantas are celebrating today.

May 1st – International Workers’ Day; Cuckoo Day; the day of Lithuania’s accession to the European Union; Binary Nomenclature Day; World Day of Insectivorous Plants.

This day:

in 1528 On the initiative of the Grand Duke of Lithuania and the King of Poland Žigimantas the Elder, the nobles who were obliged to do military service were listed. These were the first mobilization lists of Lithuanian nobles.

in 1832 Vilnius University was closed by decree of Russian Emperor Nicholas I.

in 1892 Vilnius workers celebrated May Day for the first time in Lithuania.

in 1896 the first Lithuanian political party was founded – the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, later renamed the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party.

in 1921 Prose writer Kostas Marukas (Marijonas Krasauskas) was born in Kaunas. Died in 1992

in 1993 The Homeland Union (Lithuanian Conservatives) was founded.

in 1994 The Lithuanian Mission to the United Nations and the Consulate General were opened in New York.

in 1994 The Value Added Tax Law came into force in Lithuania.

in 2002 After a break of more than 10 years, Lithuania officially started celebrating May 1 – International Workers’ Day again.

in 2002 the Confederation of Lithuanian Trade Unions was established.

in 2004 Ireland, which held the presidency of the European Union at the time, celebrated the admission of ten new countries, including Lithuania, to the European Union with a festive ceremony in the capital city of Dublin.

in 2012 Viktoras Petkus, a long-time fighter for human rights, founder of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group, dissident Viktoras Petkus died at the age of 84.

Quote of the day: “Great is not the soul that forgives, but the one that does not need forgiveness” (FR Chateaubriand).