Holidays on this day
- Guriev day
- World Compassion Day
- Professional Accountant Day
- red planet day
- Day of inventing new words
- French toast day
- Teeth brushing day
Significant events in history
1365 The Chudov Monastery was founded in the center of the Moscow Kremlin.
1660 The Royal Society of London is founded.
1734 During the casting of the Tsar Bell in Moscow, two foundry furnaces failed.
1918 The Decree of the Council of People's Commissars “On the organization of the insurance business in the Russian Republic” was issued.
1943 The Big Three conference opened in Tehran.
1989 The Molodets combat missile system was put into operation.
Persons
On November 28, 1632, the French composer, violinist, founder of the French national opera Jean-Baptiste Lully was born.
On November 28, 1757, the English poet and artist William Blake was born.
On November 28, 1820, the German philosopher, historian, one of the founders of Marxism, Friedrich Engels, was born.
On November 28, 1829, the Russian composer, founder of the first Russian conservatory Anton Rubinstein was born.
On November 28, 1838, Russian artist, sculptor and monumentalist Alexander Opekushin was born.
On November 28, 1880, the Russian poet of the Silver Age, Alexander Blok, was born.
On November 28, 1906, Soviet literary critic, cultural historian, philologist, and academician Dmitry Likhachev was born.
On November 28, 1915, Soviet writer and poet Konstantin Simonov was born.
On November 28, 1932, Soviet and Russian theater, film and pop actor, People's Artist of Russia Zinovy Vysokovsky was born.
On November 28, 1949, Soviet and American ballet dancer and film actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR Alexander Godunov, was born.
Folk calendar
Guryev day. Old style date: November 15.
On this day, the memory of three Christian martyrs is celebrated – Guria, Samon and Aviv, who lived in the 3-4 centuries.
People believed that Gury helps treat dental diseases. On this day, it was customary to address the saint with an appropriate prayer. They also said that in Guria “winter comes on a piebald mare and drives away all the unclean.” They also believed that evil spirits are afraid of winter, so they run away from the earth and leave people alone until Christmas time.
A person born on this day was supposed to be given a measure of oats or a load of hay. It was believed that this would give health to the horses. In Guria, people generally paid a lot of attention to these animals: “Gurian without a horse is like winter without January.” There was even a special sign: “If the horses neigh on Guria, it’s good.”
We also looked at weather signs. They said that if snow falls on Guria, it will remain there until the flood.
From this day begins the 40-day Nativity Fast, also called Filippov.
Name day on this day
Gregory, Gury, Dmitry, Nikita, Nikolai, Peter, Samson, Philip.
Source: Calend.ru.
