May 6 name days and other interesting facts – Respublika.lt

Own name days Today, Benedikta, Judith, Lucia, Lucius, Minvyda, Minvydas, Minvydė, Minžada, Minžadas, Minžada, Prudentija, Prudenta, Prudenta, Vaidas are celebrating.

May 6th – International day without diets.

This day:

in 1543 The wedding of the Grand Duke of Lithuania and the King of Poland Žigimantus Augustus and Elizabeth, daughter of the Czech and Hungarian King Ferdinand, took place in Krakow.

in 1761 Stanislovas Bonifacs Jundzilas, a professor of Vilnius University, botanist, geologist, philosopher, publicist, public figure, was born in Jasionys (now Gardins region in Belarus). Died in 1847 In Vilnius, he was buried in Bernardinai cemetery in Užupi.

in 1906 The first Lithuanian play after the press ban was performed in the Vilnius Town Hall – the tragedy “The Duke of Pilėnai” by Marcellins Šiaulėniškis, directed by Gabrielias Landsbergis-Žemkalnis.

in 1999 The 50th anniversary of the Council of Europe, which Lithuania joined in 1993, was mentioned in the Seimas.

in 1999 The state archives of Lithuania and Belarus have signed an agreement that gives Lithuanian archivists the opportunity to search for and purchase copies of documents related to the history of Lithuania and the property owned by the inhabitants of Belarus before 1940 in the archives of Belarus.

in 2003 After two years of restoration, a unique 17th-century painting of Our Lady of Šiluva with the Child returned to the Šiluva Basilica. Šiluva is one of the five places in Europe where the Church has officially recognized the apparition of Mary.

in 2009 His Majesty King Juan Carlos I of Spain and Queen Sofia visited Lithuania on their first official two-day visit.

in 2011 Dissident Viktoras Petkus was honored at the Estonian embassy in Vilnius – he was awarded the Order of the State of Estonia. For his efforts to achieve the independence of the Baltic states, the President of Estonia Toomas Hendriks Ilves awarded V. Petkai with the Order of the Cross of the Land of Mary, 3rd degree.

Quote of the day: “People’s wisdom is not proportional to their experience, but to their ability to acquire it” (J. B. Shaw).