May 10 name days and other interesting facts – Respublika.lt

Own name days Bertolda, Bertolda, Putin, Sangailė, Viktorina are celebrating today.

May 10th – Day of accountants.

This day:

in 1604 The cornerstone of the first baroque St. for the construction of the Kazimierz church.

in 1924 The first issue of the newspaper “Naujasisis Tilžės kelipis” was published in Tilžė.

in 1926 Elections to the III Seimas were held in Lithuania. The Social Democratic and People’s parties won the majority.

in 1989 The Lithuanian PEN Center has been accepted into the international PEN Society of Writers and Creators.

in 1990 Kazimiera Prunskienė, the Prime Minister of the first Government after the restoration of Lithuania’s independence, met with the French President Francois Mitterrand in Paris.

in 1990 Lithuanian oil was extracted near Kretinga.

in 1992 climber Vladas Vitkauskas climbed the highest peak on the planet – Everest.

in 1993 The first LIFE international theater festival in Lithuania started in Vilnius.

in 1998 the famous Canadian physicist Professor Emilijus Knystautas was awarded the diploma of a foreign member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.

in 2000 In the village of Alekseevka in the Russian Oryol Region, where four thousand soldiers of the 16th Lithuanian Division died during the Second World War, a ceremony was held to honor the fallen.

in 2001 The Lithuanian and Russian ministries of culture signed a bilateral cooperation agreement.

in 2002 Reconstruction works of the Palace of the Rulers of Lithuania have started in Vilnius.

in 2007 The Seimas approved the dismissal of Arvydas Pociaus from the position of Director General of the State Security Department.

in 2008 The title of honorary citizen of the city of Kaunas was given to the long-time chief conductor of song festivals in Lithuania, Professor Petrus Bingeliis.

in 2013 president Dalia Grybauskaite was awarded the title of honorary doctorate of the Georgetown University of the United States of America.

in 2013 poet, literary worker Bronius Mackevičius died at the age of 85.

in 2019 in his 60th year, Vytautas Šerėnas, the host of the LRT TV show “Dviračio žinios”, doctor of economic sciences, died unexpectedly.

Quote of the day: “Lost shame cannot be regained” (Seneca).