April 28 name days and other interesting facts – Respublika.lt

Own name days Rimgailas, Rimgailė, Valerija, Valė, Vygandas, Vygandė, Vyganta, Vygantas, Vygantė, Vygas, Vytolis, Vytuolis are celebrating today.

April 28th – Global occupational safety and health; day; Geologists’ Day; World Life Day; World Twin Cities Day; Pinhole (camera obscura) photography day.

This day:

in 1566 In the Seimas of Brest, the Lithuanian nobles were granted all the rights that the Polish nobles had.

in 1939 The Lithuanian men’s basketball team became the European champion for the second time.

in 1989 the Lithuanian Scouts Union, which existed in 1918-1940, was restored.

in 1995 The Lithuanian gudu community was established in Vilnius.

1990 the Vilnius Police Academy was established.

in 1998 By the decision of the Seimas, the Ministries of European Affairs, Communications and Informatics, and Construction and Urban Planning were abolished.

in 1999 Founded in Lithuania, St. Order of Casimir.

in 2000 An exhibition dedicated to the memory of former Foreign Minister Stasios Lozoraitis and his son Stasios Lozoraitis (junior), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Lithuania to the USA and Italy, was opened at Vytautas the Great University.

in 2005 Skaistutei and Romualdas Idzelevičiai, leaders of the four-time planet champion sports dance collective “Žuvėdra”, were given the names of honorary citizens of Klaipėda. They have led the collective since the founding of “Žuvėdra” – for more than 40 years.

in 2007 President Valdas Adamkus met Pope Benedict XVI during an audience in the Vatican and invited him to visit Lithuania.

in 2009 Romualdas Neimantas, a 70-year-old prose writer, researcher of oriental studies, cultural historian, translator, was buried in Kaunas Romainiai cemetery.

in 2011 A commemorative plaque to Abraham Sutzkever, a famous Litvak writer, former prisoner of the Vilnius ghetto, collaborator of the Vilnius Ghetto Theater, Jewish underground fighter against the Nazi regime, was unveiled in Vilnius.

in 2016 In 1991, it was immortalized in the inner courtyard of the Seimas. In January, the artesian well “Laisvė” was drilled on the initiative of the defenders of the Parliament.

in 2019 At the age of 71, the printer, publisher and philanthropist Petras Kalibatas died in Vilnius after a long and serious illness.

in 2021 President Gitanas Nausėda congratulated Aldona Stulginskaitė-Juozevičienė, the daughter of President Aleksandars Stulginskis, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary.

Quote of the day: “Work frees us from three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty” (Voltaire).