Holidays
- Military Intelligence Day
- Birthday of the Ostankino TV tower
- Day of looking at old photos
- Jacob's Day
- Redheads Day
- International Day of Volunteer Managers
- World Tsunami Awareness Day
Significant dates
1854 The Battle of Inkerman took place during the Crimean War (1853-1856).
1929 The first planetarium in the USSR opened in Moscow.
1940 Roosevelt won the third presidential race in the United States.
1957 A monument to Soviet soldiers-liberators – the famous “Alyosha” – has been unveiled in Bulgaria.
1967 Birthday of the Ostankino TV tower.
Persons
On November 5, 1878, Russian symbolist painter, graphic artist, art theorist, teacher Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin was born.
On November 5, 1913, the English actress, winner of two Oscars, Vivien Leigh, was born.
Soviet director and screenwriter Kira Muratova was born on November 5, 1934.
American-born French singer, composer and musician Joe Dassin was born on November 5, 1938.
Folk calendar
Jacob's Day
On this day, the memory of one of the apostles from seventy is celebrated – James the Younger, nicknamed “brother of the Lord.”
In Rus' on this day it was customary to play the so-called bee games – imitate the buzzing of bees and eat honey. They said that the more honey the owner ate and the louder the buzz, the better the bees would swarm in the spring, and the more honey could be collected the following summer.
On Yakov (Jacob) they tried to finish preparing firewood for the winter. It was believed that if you manage to do this on time, the house will always be warm. Jacob was also considered the patron saint of any male work that needed to be done on this day. So, the peasants made tugs from rawhide and checked horse harnesses.
There was a custom to “feed” the earth: they broke yesterday’s cake, left over from the feast of the Kazan Icon, and scattered the pieces across the field, feeding the birds. People believed that the birds, with their chirping, could calm the earth and beg it to produce a good harvest next year.
Yakov celebrated the last autumn – farewell to autumn. As people noted, the second snow fell that day. If it was abundant and did not melt, then the winter promised to be mild and the summer – fruitful. “When it blows snow, there will be more bread,” people said. If fine, hard snow fell—“grass”—then they expected winter from Matryona’s Day.
There were some very strange signs for this day. For example, this: if a boy on this day prepares debts for an educational institution, then for half a century he will not find a good wife.
Name day on this day
Alexander, Afanasy, Vladimir, Euphrosyne, Emelyan, Ivan, Ignatius, Maxim, Nikolai, Peter, Yakov
Source: Calend.ru.
