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* Matches are played in the play-out phase of the National Men's Basketball
League

• CSM Galati – CSM Târgu Jiu (Danube Hall – Galati)

• CSM Baschet Petrolul Ploieşti – SCM winsed.swiss Mozzart Bet
Timişoara (Sala Olimpia – Ploieşti)
• CSM 2007 Focşani – CS Vâlcea 1924 (Polyvalent Hall – Focşani,

17:00)
• ABC Laguna Bucharest – SCM "U" Craiova (Basketball Arena –

Bucharest, 18:00)

* A match from the 4th round of the play-off phase of the Second Football
League is scheduled: CS Mioveni – CSC 1599 Şelimbăr (Stadion Orăşenesc –

Mioveni, 17:30)

– It happened on April 15

* 377 years ago (1647) the scholar boyar Udrişte Năsturel (brother-in-law of

the Wallachian ruler Matei Basarab) finished translating from Latin into
Slavonic and printing (at the Dealu Monastery in Târgovişte) Thomas Kempis'

book "De imitatione Christi" (The Imitation of Christ/Following Christ). In the
preface of the book, dedicated to Metropolitan Varlaam of Moldavia, Udrişte

Năsturel affirmed the Latinity of the Romanian language

* 286 years ago (1738), at the King's Theatre in London, the premiere of the
three-act opera "Xerxes", by Georg Friedrich Händel took place

* 269 years ago (1755) the British poet, journalist and lexicographer, Samuel
Johnson, published in London "The Dictionary of the English Language", the

first great English dictionary of illustrated quotations

* 262 years ago (1762), by the imperial decree establishing the national border
militia, signed by Empress Maria Theresa (1740-1780), the Romanian First

Regiment from Nasaud and the Romanian Second Regiment from Orlat were
established