2014 Event Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet during a conference in Minsk to discuss the conflict in eastern Ukraine; Putin agreed to support peace, while Poroshenko promised to develop cease-fire plans 1976 Birthday Anna Smashnova, born in Minsk, Russia, tennis star, 1993 Futures-Erlangen GER 1974 Birthday Tatiana Ignatieva, born in Minsk, Belarus, tennis star, 1994 Futures-Sopot POL 1971 Birthday Natasha Zvereva, born in Minsk, Belarus, tennis ace, finals 1995 Indian Wells 1961 Event Lee Harvey Oswald marries Marina Prusakova in Minsk U.S.S.R. 1943 Event Jewish ghettos of Minsk and Lida Belorussia liquidated 1942 Event Nazis execute 12,000 Minsk ghetto Jews 1942 Event German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia 1942 Event German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia 1942 Event Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Belorussia Ghetto 1941 Event 1st mass deportation of Kowno, Lodz, Minsk and Riga 1905 Event A pogrom against Jews in Minsk Belorussia 1903 Birthday Nicolas Nabokov, Near Lubcha Minsk Russia, composer, Holy Devil 1885 Birthday Louis B Mayer, Minsk Russia, motion-picture executive, MGM
