Holidays
- Clean Thursday
- Day of the veteran of the internal affairs bodies and internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia
- World Hemophilia Day
- Drying day on bats
- International Coffee Day
- Sovetskoye Fire Department
- World Grape Day “Malbek”
- Hike Poetry Day
- Day of cheese balls
- A harmonic day day
Significant dates
1492. Columbus was promised royal support for its expedition “in India”.
1824. The Russian-American Convention was signed on determining the border of Russian possessions in North America.
1875. Birthday of the billiard game “Snucker”.
1912. Russia was shocked by an event, called “Lensky execution”.
1941. The Sikorsky engineer demonstrated the first amphibious helicopter.
1944. The battle for the right-bank Ukraine-the Dnieper-Carpathian operation ended.
1968. The television program “In the World of Animals” (6+) was the air for the first time.
Persons of the day
On April 17, 1745, a Russian painter was born, a landscape artist Semyon Shchedrin.
On April 17, 1855, a Russian literary critic, a historian of literature, editor, bibliographer Semen Wengerov was born.
On April 17, 1894, the Soviet theater and film actor, People's Artist of the USSR Boris Schukin was born.
On April 17, 1894, the Soviet state and politician, the head of the USSR (1953-1964) Nikita Khrushchev, was born.
On April 17, 1941, the Soviet and Russian theater and film actress Alexander Dorokhin was born.
People's calendar
Joseph chanting, alder ranges
Joseph the chanter, whose memory the Orthodox Church honors on this day, was born in the 9th century in Sicily, later went to the Solu monastery, where he became a strict ascetic.
Joseph was nicknamed the chants because he began to sing a cricket on his day, and the crane gave his voice. People left home to bow to beautiful birds, who were considered fighters with evil and defenders from evil spirits.
In addition, they said that only with their arrival the year finally turns for the summer: “The first swallow is not yet spring, the real spring brings the crane on the wings.” There was such a custom associated with birds: so that the back was not sick of field work, it was necessary, having seen the cranes for the first time in the spring, to lie on the grass and turn over seven times from side by side.
Joseph also went out to watch how alder blooms. Frolls for the well were often made from it, so they carried out “alder brisons” – they were looking for a suitable tree.
They also paid attention to signs: if there are a lot of “earrings” on Olch, oats will be damaged; If Olha dismisses a sheet before birch, the summer will be wet. Olha bark was also harvested in the spring, which, thanks to the tannins, can stop bleeding and treat inflammation.
Name day on this day
Adrian, Benjamin, George, Ivan, Joseph, Maria, Nikita, Nikolai, Fedor.
Source: Calend.ru
