Holidays
- World day of struggle with desertification and drought
- Day of eating vegetables
- Juggling day
- Crocodile Day
- Museum of lure of muses
- Apple strudel day
Significant dates
362 years. The Roman emperor Julian published an Edict, which forbade Christians to teach in schools.
1880. The first Pushkin holiday was held in Moscow (0+).
1925. The protocol was signed on the prohibition of the use of suffocating, poisonous or other similar gases and bacteriological agents in the war.
1961. Rudolf Nuriev during the Paris tour asked to provide him with political asylum.
1967. The first hydrogen bomb was tested in China.
1970. Edwin Land patented the Polaroid camera.
1982. A prototype of the Ka-50 combat helicopter-Black Shark rose into the air.
Persons
On June 17, 1714, the French astronomer and geodesist Caesar Kassini was born.
On June 17, 1882, a Russian composer, conductor, pianist Igor Stravinsky was born.
On June 17, 1891, a Russian ballerina was born, wife Pablo Picasso Olga Khokhlova.
On June 17, 1898, a Dutch artist, a graph of the Maurice Esher, was born.
On June 17, 1903, the Russian and Soviet poet and playwright Mikhail Svetlov were born.
On June 17, 1911, the Russian writer Viktor Nekrasov was born.
On June 17, 1929, a Soviet chess player, international grandmaster, 9th world chess champion Tigran Petrosyan was born.
People's calendar
Mitrofan Navoznik
The Orthodox Church honors on this day the memory of St. Mitrofan, Patriarch of Constantinople, who lived in the 3-4 centuries.
In the people's nickname, Mitrofan – Navoznik – there was nothing offensive to the saint. On the contrary, peasants have always been respected by manure – as a pledge of the future crop. The land must be fed on Mitrofan. People said: “Without manure-priest, do not expect bread from the earth-mother”; “A good land will accept manure once, and it will remember for nine years.” It was fraught to fly away from such work: “You will deceive the field once, but it is ten.”
The wind also naked on Mitrofan – they asked him to send fertile, warm rains. At the same time, it was believed: “The wind will blow from the rotten angle (that is, from the north) – wait for bad weather.”
The people also noticed that Lyong begins to grow to Mitrofan in full force. “The day is strong, which stretches Lenon,” the people said. And they added: “The Holy Mitrofan rings the girls in sundress.”
Name day on this day
Ivan, Maria, Martha, Mitrofan, Methodius, Nazar, Peter, Rostislav, Sofya.
Source: Calend.ru.
