March 29 name days and other interesting facts – Respublika.lt

Own name days today Almante, Bertold, Kleopatra, Manvydas, Sandra are celebrating.

March 29th – Day of Lithuania’s accession to NATO; Big Friday.

This day:

in 1974 Aukštaitija National Park was established – the first in Lithuania. Previously, Latvians and Estonians founded parks for Lithuanians.

in 1990 Vytautas Landsbergis, Chairman of the Supreme Council-Restorative Seimas, appealed to the US Congress to recognize the independence of Lithuania.

in 1990 The President of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, demanded that the Act on the Restoration of the Independent State of Lithuania be revoked within three days.

in 1995 Representatives of Lithuania signed the Nuclear Security Convention in Vienna.

in 1999 The Kaunas District Prosecutor’s Office reclassified the criminal case for illegal deprivation of liberty of priest Ričardas Mikutavičias into a criminal case for murder. The first charges have been filed.

in 2004 Lithuania became a full member of NATO. This North Atlantic Treaty Organization then connected 26 countries.

in 2007 for the first time, after it became a member of the European Union, the President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, visited Lithuania on a working visit.

in 2013 Valdas Gedgaudas, a well-known national poet, theater critic and radio journalist, died at the age of 51.

in 2015 At the age of 68, Petras Dirgėla, a well-known writer and laureate of the National Culture and Art Prize, died after a serious illness.

in 2015 Gediminas Pranckūnas, the director of the Klaipėda Drama Theater, died unexpectedly at the age of 72.

in 2016 Minister of Internal Affairs Saulius Skvernelis resigned.

in 2017 In Berlin, in the diplomatic archive of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Act of Independence of Lithuania signed in 1918 in Lithuanian and German languages ​​was found, as well as in 1917. December 11 declaration, which provided for the union of Lithuania and Germany. The documents were discovered in Germany by Vytautas the Great University professor Liudas Mažylis while collecting material on the activities of the Council of Lithuania in 1917-1918.

in 2020 poet, journalist, writer Eglė Juodvalkė died at the age of 71.

Quote of the day: “Glory is not in never giving up, but in getting back up every time you fall” (Chinese proverb).