Holidays
- International Culture Day
- Memorial Day “Titanic”
- Day of environmental knowledge
- Day of the radio electronic warfare specialist in the Armed Forces of Russia
- Laundry Day
- Travel Day Light
- World art day
- Day of the glazed ham
- International Laboratory Diagnostic Specialist Day
- TRARE EVAST day
Significant dates
1834. By the highest command, the Moscow Telegraph magazine (12+) is closed.
1912. The Titanic passenger liner sank in the Atlantic Ocean.
1951. In London, the first beauty contest “Miss World” was held (16+).
1989. In Sheffield, 96 spectators died during a football match.
1993. The all -Russian days of environmental hazard protection started, which today have become an annual environmental action.
Persons of the day
On April 15, 1452, an Italian artist, scientist, inventor, “universal” genius of the Renaissance of Leonardo da Vinci was born.
On April 15, 1684, the Russian Empress was born (1725-1727), the second wife of Peter I Catherine I.
On April 15, 1707, the Swiss, German and Russian mathematician, mechanic, physicist, academician Leonard Ayler was born.
On April 15, 1812, a French landscape painter, the founder of the Barbizon school, Theodore Russo, was born.
On April 15, 1858, a French sociologist was born, one of the creators of sociology as an independent science Emil Durkheim.
On April 15, 1886, a Russian poet, creator of the school of acmeism, literary critic, traveler Nikolai Gumilyov was born.
On April 15, 1896, a Soviet chemist was born, one of the founders of chemical physics, the Nobel laureate Nikolai Semenov.
On April 15, 1912, a Korean politician, founder and first head of North Korea Kim Il Saint was born.
On April 15, 1921, a Soviet-cosmonaut, Major General of Aviation, Hero of the Soviet Union George Beregova was born.
On April 15, 1933, the Soviet and Russian scriptwriter, screenwriter, translator Boris Strugatsky was born.
People's calendar
Titus Ice
On this day, the Orthodox Church celebrates the memory of St. Titus of the Wonderworker, who lived in the 9th century.
The nickname of the “ice” St. Titus received the people because the rivers and the lakes are finally opened on his day. It was customary to carefully observe this process: if the ice is drowned, it will fall to the bottom, then you need to prepare for the difficult year. If hollow water spills, you can wait for good herbs and early mowing. And if the ice has not yet gone to Titus, it means that this spring fish will be caught badly. We followed Titus and the birds. If the quail screams, there will be a lot of bread and a lot of grass.
This day was also called a wiseless. The stocks of grain ended, and people began to interrupt from bread to kvass. On this occasion they said: “It was once every life on a shovel, but now they survived-the legs were crushed”; “Who has nothing, but we have more than that.” Despite difficult times, the grain was not touched for sowing. It was a taboo: “Sell a cow, and sow the field with good seed”; “Hungry yourself, but do not deprive the field with grain.”
For merchants, on the contrary, this date was called “Barysh-day”. They tried to celebrate him as noisily as possible – this promised good profits throughout the year.
Often, Titus Day falls on the period of Great Lent. This explains many jokes, sayings and sayings about Titus. “Our Titus and Prodigi in the post”; “Drunk Titus Psalms repeats”; “Our Titus has both Pito and Bito,” there are only some of them.
Name day on this day
George, Gregory, Efim, Tit.
Source: Calend.ru
