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Own name days celebrating today: Alexander, Alkmen, Lidija, Rupert, Rūta, Sanrim, Santara.
March 27th – International Theater Day.
This day:
in 1441 The self-government granted to the Karaim of Trakai by the privilege of the Grand Duke Casimir of Lithuania – the right of Magdeburg.
in 1921 Jokūbas Minkevičius, a philosopher and academician of the Academy of Sciences, was born in Ufa (Bashkiria). Died in 1996
in 1939 the Lithuanian government led by Vladas Miron resigned.
in 1990 Soviet paratroopers seized the LKP Central Committee building in Vilnius. Algirdas Brazauskas, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the LKP, sent a letter of protest to the President of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, regarding the illegal occupation of buildings.
in 2002 Lithuania and South Korea signed a bilateral agreement on the visa-free regime.
in 2003 The government approved the agreement between Lithuania and the United States on the protection of the cultural heritage of national, religious and ethnic groups living in the countries.
in 2007 For the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famous émigré artist Vytautas Kazimieros Jonynas (1907-1997), the Lithuanian Art Museum organized a monumental exhibition “The Crossroads of World Art”.
in 2009 President Valdas Adamkus awarded Julijon Petrėtiene, the daughter of partisan supporters Stanislaus and Antanina Mikniaus, with the Officer’s Cross of the “For Services to Lithuania” order. On February 2-22, 1949, a congress of partisan commanders from all Lithuania was held at the Mikniaus homestead, and the movement of Lithuanian freedom fighters was founded.
in 2013 Lithuania established diplomatic relations with Rwanda.
in 2019 the verdict of the Vilnius District Court in the case of January 13th, which found 67 former Soviet officials guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes on January 13th, 1991 in Vilnius, was announced.
in 2019 Honorary Consulate of Lithuania opened in the Finnish city of Tampere. This is already the fifth honorary consulate of Lithuania in Finland.
Quote of the day: “Actors are the only respectable hypocrites in the world” (W. Hazlitt).
