Today is Monday, the ninety-ninth day of the year. Sunrise at 05:55, sunset 19:21. Name days are celebrated by: Dionizy, January and Radosław.
Today is Monday, the ninety-ninth day of the year. Sunrise at 05:55, sunset 19:21. Name days are celebrated by: Dionizy, January and Radosław.
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499 years ago in Krakow, King Sigismund I the Old and Albrecht Hohenzollern signed a treaty under which Prince Albrecht, considering himself a vassal of the Polish king, became the hereditary ruler in Prussia; the treaty confirmed Poland’s recognition of the secularization of the Teutonic Order in Prussia and the establishment of a Protestant state there.
163 years ago, a patriotic demonstration at Castle Square in Warsaw was bloodily dispersed by the Russian army, which shot at defenseless people; at least 200 people died and 500 were injured.
134 years ago, Zygmunt Drzewiecki was born in Warsaw, pianist, teacher, one of the creators of the International Piano Festival. Fryderyk Chopin, four-time chairman of the jury, professor at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw.
116 years ago, Tadeusz Kondrat, a film and theater actor, known, among others, was born in Przemyśl. from roles in the films “Cellulose”, “April”, “Where is the Third King?”, “Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą” and the role of Beelzebub in the television adaptation of “Playing with the Devil” by Jan Drda.
73 years ago, riots broke out in Szczecin because a Pole was killed by a drunk Soviet soldier; spontaneous protests were pacified by KBW, militia and UB soldiers, there were fatalities and injuries.
14 years ago, in a plane crash near Smolensk, the President of the Republic of Poland Lech Kaczyński, his wife Maria Kaczyńska and 94 other people died, including many high government officials and military commanders; the Polish delegation was flying to the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre.
55 years ago, the passenger ship “Stefan Batory” set sail on its first transoceanic voyage.
63 years ago today, the Vostok 1 spacecraft was launched from Kazakhstan in the Soviet Union with cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on board; It was the first human flight into space and lasted 108 minutes.
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Today, the Sejm commission of inquiry into the visa scandal will question the former heads of the Foreign Intelligence Agency, Piotr Krawczyk and Bartosz Jarmuszkiewicz. He will ask them, among others: about security matters related to the Poland program. Business Harbour, which included a simplified visa procedure for companies, startups and IT specialists.
The head of the committee, Michał Szczerba from KO, emphasized last week that citizens of the Russian Federation were also granted visas under the program, despite the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Parts of the interview may be secret.
The Commission is investigating abuses, negligence and omissions in connection with the legalization of the stay of foreigners in Poland in the period from November 12, 2019 to November 20, 2023.
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Today, the Vatican is visited by Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz, who came to Rome with the families of five hostages kidnapped by Hamas. Pope Francis will meet with their relatives.
Today, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov begins a two-day visit to China, where he will meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. The talks are to concern the war in Ukraine and the deepening partnership between Moscow and Beijing. According to a Russian statement, information is planned to be exchanged on “a number of hot topics, including the Ukrainian crisis and the situation in the Asia-Pacific region.” According to Reuters, Vladimir Putin is to go to China in May for talks with President Xi Jinping.
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