Holidays
- International Black Sea Day
- Detention Center and Prison Workers' Day
- Sign Language Interpreter Day
- World Cities Day
- International Savings Day
- Dark Matter Day
- International Hockey Goalie Day
- Magic Day
- Books for fun day
- Day of red rowan and flying tits
- Doorbell Day
- Pumpkin rescue
- Caramel Apple Day
- A day to boost your mental energy
- Luka Golodny
- Breadstick Day
- Bandana Day
Significant dates
1811 The Imperial Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum opened.
1899 The cruiser “Varyag” was launched.
1941 The United States National Memorial at Mount Rushmore is completed.
1958 Boris Pasternak wrote a letter to Nikita Khrushchev.
1961 Stalin's body was taken out of the Mausoleum.
1984 An assassination attempt was made on Indira Gandhi.
2015 There was a plane crash over the Sinai Peninsula.
Persons
On October 31, 1451, the Spanish navigator and discoverer of new lands Christopher Columbus was born.
Dutch painter Jan Vermeer was born on October 31, 1632.
On October 31, 1795, the English romantic poet John Keats was born.
On October 31, 1815, German mathematician and academician Karl Weierstrass was born.
On October 31, 1892, Russian chess player, 4th world chess champion Alexander Alekhine was born.
On October 31, 1895, English military historian and theorist Liddell Hart was born.
English economist and public figure Joan Robinson was born on October 31, 1903.
On October 31, 1912, 1895, Austrian writer, journalist, and film critic Jean Améry was born.
On October 31, 1922, Soviet theater and film actor, People's Artist of the USSR Anatoly Papanov was born.
Folk calendar
Lukov day
On this day the memory of Saint Luke is celebrated – the apostle from seventy, the companion of the Apostle Paul.
The saint in Rus' was revered as the patron saint of icon painters and painters in general. On Luka, people of these professions were given special honor. True, at the same time they sometimes joked: “It’s the will of the icon painter to paint Friday on horseback, and paint Yegorya on foot”; “Gods are not sown, they are not shouted, people paint them”; “If you look at the image, you will not become holy.”
In addition, there is information that Luke mastered the art of medicine. And the main healer and healer in Rus' from time immemorial was considered a plant whose name is consonant with the name of the saint – onion. It was not for nothing that they said: “The onion cures seven diseases”; “Onion and bath rule everything”; “He who eats onions is freed from torment.” On Lukov Day, onion markets were held, although onion trading was not considered profitable. “To trade onions, use onion bast and gird yourself,” people joked. Where would you be without onions? And although the recipe for onion soup is considered French, there is nowhere in Russian cuisine without onions: you can’t cook a tasty soup, and you can’t fry potatoes.
On Luke it was also customary to pray to the saint for good relationships in the family, for advice and love between husband and wife. Gardeners also turned to him for help.
On this day we observed signs: if the leaves from the cherry trees had not yet fallen, the snow would not fall for a long time.
Name day on this day
Andrey, Gabriel, David, Elizabeth, Ivan, Joseph, Luke, Nikolai, Semyon, Sergey, Julian
Source: Calend.ru.
