Holidays
- World Bicycle Day
- The holiday of the truant
- The day of recalling snow
- Birthday of the parachute
- Feast of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God
- World Clopiness Day
- Egg day
- Day of chocolate-mend cookies
- The day of repetitions
Significant dates
1785. The birthday of the parachute – Francois Blanchard demonstrated the parachute he designed.
1892. The founding day of the Liverpool football club.
1927. In Moscow, the Red Gate is demolished.
1943. The French Committee of National Liberation was created.
1965. Astronaut Edward White became the first American and the second man in the world to go out into outer space.
1989. A large railway accident occurred in the Chelyabinsk region.
Persons
On June 3, 1796, a Russian poet, critic and translator Mikhail Dmitriev was born.
On June 3, 1843, a Russian natural scientist was born, one of the founders of the Russian School of Physiology of Plants Clement Timiryazev.
On June 3, 1865, the King of Great Britain (1910-1936) Georg V.
On June 3, 1876, a Russian and Soviet surgeon, founder of Russian neurosurgery Nikolai Burdenko, was born.
On June 3, 1881, a Russian painter, graphic, theater artist, art theoretician Mikhail Larionov was born.
On June 3, 1906, the Soviet director, actor, playwright and cinema theorist, People's Artist of the USSR Sergey Gerasimov was born.
On June 3, 1908, the Soviet and Russian archaeologist and historian, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Boris Rybakov, was born.
People's calendar
Olenin day
On this day, the memory of St. Helena, who lived in the 3-4 centuries, is honored. She was the mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine I and became famous for her activities in the spread of Christianity.
In Rus' on this day they began to sow flax and made special rituals for his good harvest. The old women were collected from each woman in the village along a pair of baked chicken eggs and put them in a bag of seeds. The man, having left the field for sowing flax, first took breakfast and brought home shells home. According to another custom, the seeder was supposed to be baked eggs to throw as high as possible – to the high growth of flax.
On the same day, they paid a lot of attention to the cucumbers, saying: “deer (Elena) – flaxes, Constantine – cucumbers.” The hostess, taking the old bast shoe, dragged him into the garden, threw it on the bed and said: “How densely this bast shoe was wandering so that my cucumbers are swollen.”
But what should not be weaved on a deer is a braid. On this day, the girls had to walk simple -haired so that the hair was beautiful and long.
The weather signs noted. If the day was rainy for a deer, then autumn was waiting for a rainy. If it rained with hail, it portended snow with cereal on December 3.
Name day on this day
Elena, Kirill, Konstantin, Mikhail, Fedor, Yaroslav.
Source: Calend.ru.
