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

Own name days Today, Dainora, Rindauga, Rindaugas, Ringailė, Ringailas, Ringauda, ​​Ringaudas, Rinkanta, Rinkantas, Rinkantė, Sandrina, Teodora, Teodoras are celebrating.

April 1st – Day of Laughs or Liars; World Bird Day; The second day of Easter.

This day:

in 1557 the order of the Grand Duke Žygimantas Augustus of Lithuania was published regarding the distribution of peasants’ cultivated land in parcels.

1579 Vilnius University – Alma Academia et Universitas Vilnensis was founded. The university was legalized by two acts – the privilege of King Stephen Bator of April 1, 1579 and the Bull of Pope Gregory XIII of October 29, 1579.

101 years ago, in 1920, the Lithuanian Telegram Agency ELTA started working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kaunas. Juozas Eretas was appointed as the first director of the agency.

in 1936 Marcelijus Martinaitis, a well-known poet, essayist and translator, laureate of the National Culture and Art Prize, was born in Paserbenti, Raseiniai district. Died in 2013

in 1993 yacht “Lietuva”, which sailed around the world for the first time in the history of Lithuanian sailing sport, docked in the port of Las Palmas, Canary Islands.

in 1994 the tripartite trade agreement of the Baltic States entered into force.

in 1999 For the first time, an artificial heart – a machine – was connected to a patient at the Cardiac Surgery Clinic of the Santariškii hospital.

in 2000 Lithuanian couple Povilas Vanagas and Margarita Drobiazko won bronze medals at the World Figure Skating Championship held in Nice, France.

in 2001 Grūtas Park was opened near Druskininkai – an exhibition of sculptures of Soviet period figures created in the spirit of socialist realism.

in 2002 An Angel sculpture was unveiled in the capital Užupis.

in 2003 the extradition treaty between Lithuania and the United States entered into force.

in 2008 Viktoras Muntianas resigned as Speaker of the Seimas. The signatory of the Act of March 11, Česlovas Juršėnas, who has been the leader of the Seimas for a long time, has been elected as the new leader of the parliament.

in 2012 Vytautas Kamantas, the former chairman of the Lithuanian Community of the World and the Lithuanian Community of the USA, died in the USA at the age of 83.

in 2012 Lithuanian football patriarch Stanislovas Paberžis died.

Quote of the day: “To a cheerful person, the whole world seems cheerful” (JV Gėtė).