Own name days today is celebrated by Darbutus, Darė, Dargailas, Dargailė, Dargas, Flors, Florenta, Florentas, Florentina, Florentinas, Florijons, Manė, Monika, Mintautė, Silvanas, Vitalija;
May 4th – St. Florijon, Day of the Guardian of Fires; Latvian Independence Declaration Day.
This day:
in 1876 Composer Kazimieras Banaitis was born in Vaitiekupiai, Šakiai district. Died in 1963 Brooklyn, USA.
in 1890 Writer and diplomat Jurgis Savickis was born in Pagausanti, Raseiniai district. Died in 1952 Hermitage, Monaco.
in 1918 Germany presented the Lithuanian Council with a document recognizing Lithuania’s independence.
in 1926 Poet Ona Jaskelevičiūtė-Gorodeckienė (pseudonym Eglė Nemunaitė) was born in Merkinė. Died in 2016
in 1990 Kazimira Prunskienė, the head of the first government after the restoration of Lithuania’s independence, met with US President George Bush in Washington.
in 1996 Pope John Paul II granted the resignation of Kaunas Archbishop Cardinal Vincent Sladkevičius.
in 1998 In Vilnius, the bishops of the Catholic Church of the Baltic States discussed issues of cooperation.
in 2001 The foreign ministers of Lithuania and Hungary signed bilateral agreements on the visa-free regime and mutual assistance.
in 2006 At the main event of the “Vilnius Conference 2006: A Common Vision for the Common Neighborhood” – the Heads of State Forum – the changes that occurred after the expansion of the European Union (EU) and NATO were discussed by the presidents of Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine, the vice president of the USA Richard Cheney, EU Common Foreign and Security Policy Representative Javier Solana.
in 2017 actor Dalius Mertins died at the age of 56 after a serious illness.
in 2021 Kazimieras Vidmantas Putelis, the long-time manager of LRT radio and prominent national journalist, died at the age of 87.
Quote of the day: “The means of combating evil are sometimes worse than the evil itself” (Publius Sirus).
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