April 30 name days and other interesting facts – Respublika.lt

Own name days Marijonas, Skaudmina, Skaudmins, Skaudminė, Skaudvilas, Skaudvilė, Sofija, Vaišmantas, Vaišmantė, Virbutas are celebrating today.

April 30th – Walpurgis Night; International Jazz Day.

This day:

in 1876 Jurgis Šlapelis, a translator, lexicographer, book publisher, who established his own bookstore in Vilnius, was born in Galsiškiai, Kupiškis county. Died in 1941

in 1916 The Lithuanian conference ended in the Dutch city of The Hague.

in 1924 by order of the Minister of National Defense, the officers’ club was named the Lithuanian Officers’ Association.

in 1957 announcer Gražina Bigelytė started the first Lithuanian television show.

in 1989 The first congress of Lithuanian Greens took place in Rumšiškės.

in 1992 The government approved the principles for the establishment of hostels in Lithuania.

in 1993 The representatives of Lithuania and Latvia decided that the border of both countries would be the pre-war border.

in 1999 Gediminas Vagnorius resigned from the position of the head of the Government.

in 2005 the works of the famous local artist Juzė Katiliūtė, who lived in Geneva, Switzerland, were brought to Marijampolė. At the age of 89, J. Katiliūtė handed over 44 paintings and graphic works to her hometown.

in 2010 Important archival documents and items from the Baltrušaičiai family archive were transferred from Paris to Lithuania to the Lithuanian state and its diplomatic service at the Vilnius Picture Gallery.

in 2019 the last issue of the newspaper “Lietuvos žinios”, which counted 110 years, was published.

in 2020 the mathematician Bronislovas Burgis, the founder of Kaunas University of Technology gymnasium, died at the age of 71.

Quote of the day: “There is no greater misfortune than to give in to desires, no greater crime than insatiability, and no greater trouble than the thirst for profit” (Lao Tzu).