Holidays on this day
- Purple Day (Epilepsy Day)
- nougat day
- Birthday medical patch
- Day of units for combating criminal encroachments on cargo (OBCPG) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation
- Day of sending news to spring in a hot air balloon
- Festival of Sad Donkeys
- Spinach Day
- Day of your own holiday
Significant events in history
1162 The troops of Frederick I Barbarossa captured Milan.
1328 Ivan Kalita received from the Uzbek Khan a label for the reign of Kostroma.
1828 The only author's concert of Franz Schubert took place.
1937 The world's first monument to the cartoon character Popeye the Sailor has been erected (0+).
2003 A frozen sea has been found on Mars.
2006 The social network “Odnoklassniki” (12+) has started working.
Persons
On March 26, 1835, Russian painter, academician, and wanderer Alexander Litovchenko was born.
On March 26, 1900, the Soviet military leader, Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Lizyukov was born.
On March 26, 1938, Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR Alexey Petrenko was born.
On March 26, 1951, Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, People's Artist of Russia Alexey Buldakov was born.
Folk calendar
Nikiforov day
Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople, whose memory is honored on this day, lived in the 8th-9th centuries. He is venerated in the person of the saint. Nikephoros was a zealous defender of icons, so after the accession of the iconoclast Emperor Leo the Armenian to the throne, he was exiled to a monastery on the shores of the Bosphorus, where he died. When the relics of the patriarch were found, they turned out to be incorrupt.
People said that the sun was melting the snow more and more, and spring waters seeped into the den and disturbed the bear. On this day, the owner of the forest woke up and left his winter home. In Rus', the bear was considered a person, only in a different form; No wonder there are many legends about the transformation of a bear into a human – and vice versa. Some parts of the bear's body were used in rituals: for example, they used their paws to tell fortunes.
Geese were expected on Nikifor: if they flew on this day, it foreshadowed a fruitful year. And if the geese began to “rinse” in the water, it means that warm weather is just around the corner. The arrival of the lark, the first of the spring birds, also spoke of warm days; but if the finch arrived first, it promised cold weather. Fogs on this day predicted a rainy summer.
We went fishing that day. They said that roach, perch and ide bite well on the last ice.
Name day on this day
Alexander, Gregory, Christina, Mikhail, Nikifor, Nikolai, Terenty.
Source: Calend.ru.
