Holidays on this day
- New Year holidays day 3
- Birthday Cocktail Straws
- Women in Rock and Roll Day
- Chocolate Cherry Day
- Sleepy Day Festival
- Day of sparklers and garland lights
- Memorial Day of Princess Olga
Significant events in history
1799 The Russian-Turkish Treaty was signed, formalizing Turkey's entry into the anti-French coalition.
1850 A re-enactment of the execution of the Petrashevites took place in St. Petersburg.
1959 Alaska received the status of the 49th US state.
1963 The first flight of the Il-62 aircraft took place in the USSR.
Persons
On January 3, 1892, the English fantasy writer, author of the books “The Hobbit” (12+) and “The Lord of the Rings” (12+) John Tolkien was born.
On January 3, 1906, Soviet miner and founder of the Stakhanov movement Alexei Stakhanov was born.
On January 3, 1925, Soviet hockey player and coach, Olympic champion Grigory Mkrtchyan was born.
On January 3, 1936, Soviet poet Nikolai Rubtsov was born.
On January 3, 1938, Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR Alexander Lazarev was born.
Folk calendar
Prokopiev day
On this day, the memory of Procopius of Vyatka, the holy fool of the Christian saint, was honored.
In Rus', peasants gave this day the name Half-feed, because by this day half of the feed stored for the winter for livestock was consumed.
On this day, they were supposed to check the barns and barns and assess whether there would be enough hay and straw reserves before the onset of warm weather, as well as stirring the grain and chasing mice. This was called “feeding the bottoms and pushing the grain.” The Suseki also “listened” on this day: the peasant put his ear to the grain and listened; if a buzz was heard, the summer must have been restless.
On Prokopyev Day, the girls did not leave the house, but swept the floors from early morning. The more grain they scoop, the more happiness they will have. Afterwards, the grain was ground into flour, from which a lean pancake was baked and jelly was prepared. All this was supposed to be done in complete silence. The pancake was eaten, washed down with jelly and not shared with anyone. It was believed that if you make a wish, it will definitely come true.
By the way, the recipe for jelly has remained virtually unchanged for a long time: wheat flour, well shaken in cold milk, is mixed with boiling milk, and then seasoned with salt, sugar and boiled until mushy.
There were weather signs for Prokopyev Day. If the sun is red at dawn, there will be a snowstorm. In general, the weather on this day indicated the weather in September.
Name day on this day
Leonty, Mikhail, Nikita, Peter, Prokop, Sergey, Ulyana, Filaret
Source: Calend.ru.
