Holidays
- Day of sweet molasses and oriental sweets
- World Candy Day
- Kharitins – the first canvases
- Day of Remembrance of Military Cossack Glory
- European Day against Trafficking in Human Beings
- International Tie Day
- Chocolate Cupcake Day
- No beard day
- European Beaver Day
- European Paper Bag Day
- Magician's Day
- World Women's Day
- Home Movie Day
- World Singing Day
Significant dates
1009 By order of the Egyptian ruler Al-Hakim, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher was looted and destroyed.
1867 Alaska is transferred to the United States.
1942 In besieged Leningrad, the opening of the Theater named after V.F. took place. Komissarzhevskaya.
1947 The first Soviet ballistic missile A-4 was launched at the Kapustin Yar test site.
1967 The Venera 4 space station received the first scientific data from the surface of Venus.
1978 The chess match (0+) for the world championship between Karpov and Korchnoi has ended.
Persons
On October 18, 1585, the German composer, organist, and music teacher Heinrich Schütz was born.
On October 18, 1777, German playwright, poet and prose writer Heinrich von Kleist was born.
On October 18, 1847, Russian electrical engineer and creator of the incandescent lamp Alexander Lodygin was born.
On October 18, 1901, the Soviet composer, musical figure, People's Artist of the USSR Vladimir Zakharov was born.
On October 18, 1908, Soviet pilot and military leader, Colonel General of Aviation, Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Kamanin was born.
Singer, guitarist, songwriter Chuck Berry was born on October 18, 1926.
On October 18, 1959, Russian journalist, television and radio presenter Sergei Dorenko was born.
Folk calendar
Kharitins – the first canvases
According to the church calendar, this day commemorates the holy martyr Charitina, who suffered for her faith at the beginning of the 4th century in the city of Ponte on the Black Sea coast.
In Rus', by this time, field and garden work in the villages ended, and the peasants began to do household chores. On Kharitina, women sat down at the looms and began to weave canvases. “Kharitina weaved and spun and dressed the whole house,” they said that day. The girls gathered for evenings, where they also did needlework – spinning, embroidering, knitting. Such work was usually accompanied by singing.
Weaving skills were valued no less than agricultural skills. There are many riddles about this activity, for example, the following: “The snares are spread out, the winches have arrived, they are tinder, they are crushing, they are gaping, they are stuck”; “I’ll stamp my foot, I’ll press my stomach, I’ll move my hand, I’ll pound twice and I’ll start again.” There were also riddles about the weaving mill: “A spider came on wooden legs and blocked the whole hut”; “A miracle came, sat down in a corner, without a girl, without a wife, but there was no sign.”
As for the men, they began making felt boots on Kharitina. These shoes were also mentioned in sayings. “The day fell behind the night—it tripped over a stump with its felt boot,” people said, noticing that the day was becoming noticeably shorter than the night.
Signs were also observed. If crows and jackdaws hovered in the air, and the clouds moved against the wind, this foreshadowed snow, and windless weather promised a cold snap.
Name day on this day
Alexandra, Alexey, Gabriel, Gregory, Denis, Evdokim, Ermogen, Innocent, Kuzma, Makar, Matvey, Peter, Tikhon, Filaret, Philip.
Source: Calend.ru.
