Own name days Anastazas, Aušra, Aušrė, Aušrinė, Aušrius, Aušrys, Gotarta, Gotartas, Gotartė, Gotautas, Gotautė, Sidona, Zita, Žydrė are celebrating today.
April 27th – Day of medical workers; World Graphic Design Day; International Veterinary Day.
This day:
in 1792 General Antanas Gelgaudas was born in 1831. commander-in-chief of the uprising in Lithuania.
in 1922 Klaipėda region and Poland signed a trade agreement.
in 1990 Kazimira Prunskienė, the first prime minister of the restored independent Lithuania, paid an unofficial visit to Canada.
in 1992 Airspace Monitoring and Control Board of the Air Force was established.
in 1995 The Seimas ratified the Lithuanian-Kazakhstan agreement on legal assistance and legal relations in civil, family and criminal cases.
in 2000 The III Lithuanian Sports Congress was held in Vilnius.
in 2001 For the first time, two German submarines entered the territorial waters of Lithuania and docked at Klaipėda seaport.
in 2008 Polish Lithuanians in Punsk, which is still called the capital of Lithuanians in Poland, celebrated the 15th anniversary of the “Aušras” publishing house.
in 2012 Vytautas Dabašinskas, a filmmaker and director, died at the age of 85. He left a number of documentaries and music films in the Lithuanian Television Gold Fund.
in 2015 writer, essayist, art critic Tomas Sakalauskas died at the age of 84.
Quote of the day: “The biggest folly is to sacrifice your health, no matter what: for wealth, career, education, fame. Rather, on the contrary, nothing should be spared for health” (Aristotle).
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