Holidays on this day
- World Children's Day
- International Pediatrician Day
- Transport Worker Day in Russia
- Fedotov day
- Feast of the Icon of the Mother of God “Leaping of the Child”
- Microsoft Windows Day
- Tram day
- Day of Reincarnation
- Peanut Butter Fudge Day
- Name your computer day
- Day of the Absurd
- Health Day in rural areas
- International No Smoking Day
- World Philosophy Day
Significant events in history
1480 The end of the position on the Ugra is the end of Tatar-Mongol rule in Rus'.
1805 Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera “Fidelio” (12+) was performed for the first time.
1820 The whaling ship Essex is rammed by a giant whale.
[1945ThebeginningoftheNurembergtrials-thetrialofwarcriminalsoftheThirdReich1990 Serial killer Andrei Chikatilo has been detained.
1998 The first module of the ISS, the Russian functional cargo block Zarya, was launched.
Persons
On November 20, 1480, Portuguese and Spanish navigator and explorer Ferdinand Magellan was born.
On November 20, 1602, German physicist, engineer and philosopher Otto von Guericke was born.
On November 20, 1803, the Russian statesman, admiral and diplomat Efim Putyatin was born.
On November 20, 1794, German zoologist and botanist Eduard Rüppel was born.
On November 20, 1869, the Russian poetess and writer of the “Silver Age” era, Zinaida Gippius, was born.
On November 20, 1886, the Austrian ethologist who deciphered the behavior of bees, Nobel laureate Karl Ritter von Frisch, was born.
American astronomer Edwin Hubble was born on November 20, 1889.
On November 20, 1925, Soviet and Russian ballerina, choreographer, teacher, People's Artist of the USSR Maya Plisetskaya was born.
On November 20, 1927, Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, director, People's Artist of the USSR Mikhail Ulyanov was born.
On November 20, 1928, Soviet and Russian actor, director, public figure, People's Artist of the USSR Alexei Batalov was born.
On November 20, 1946, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' (since 2009) Kirill was born.
Folk calendar
Fedotov day
The day got its name in honor of one of the holy martyrs, whose memory the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates on this date. Theodotus was one of 30 Christians who suffered for their faith in the 3rd century in Melitene.
On Fedot (Theodotus) peasant women in Russian villages began to spin, and before starting work they turned to the saint with a prayer for help in their work, since they considered him the patron of women's needlework.
At this time, ice rose on the rivers and lakes. People remarked: “Fedot leads the way.” Freeze-up, as a rule, was long-awaited. It meant, firstly, the beginning of ice fishing; secondly, and much more importantly, the beginning of travel along icy rivers. “The rivers are covered with ice – the winter roads are open,” people said. At the same time, ice began to fall, and it was necessary to walk carefully. “Fedot will put ice on your forehead,” they joked about this.
Ice and snow were used to judge the future harvest. If the ice on the rivers rose in piles, and snow mounds formed on the roads, this foreshadowed that the next summer would be a fruitful one.
On this day, children were asked riddles about ice. For example, these: “It flowed and flowed and lay under the glass”; “It doesn’t burn in fire, it doesn’t drown in water”; “I am water, and I swim on water.”
Name day on this day
Alexander, Alexey, Afanasy, Bogdan, Valery, Vasily, Veniamin, Georgy, Gregory, Evgeny, Elizaveta, Ivan, Hilarion, Kirill, Konstantin, Mikhail, Nikolay, Nikon, Pavel, Sergey, Fedor, Fedot.
Source: Calend.ru.
