Holidays
- International Day of Monuments and Historic Sites
- World Amateur Radio Day
- Victory Day of Russian soldiers of Prince Alexander Nevsky over German knights on Lake Peipsi
- International day of jugglers
- Day of formation of Gostekhnadzor bodies
- Adult Autism Day
- Animal Cookie Day
- Velociraptor Awareness Day
- Husband Appreciation Day
- International Circus Day
Significant dates
1025 The first king of Poland, Boleslaw I the Brave, was anointed to the throne.
1902 For the first time in the world, fingerprinting was used to identify a criminal.
1906 The earthquake destroyed part of San Francisco.
1923 The Moscow sports society “Dynamo” was created in the USSR.
Persons of the day
On April 18, 1917, Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, People's Artist of the USSR Georgy Vitsin was born.
On April 18, 1929, the daughter of the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee L.I. was born. Brezhneva Galina Brezhneva.
On April 18, 1930, Soviet writer, historian, and literary critic Nathan Eidelman was born.
Folk calendar
Fedul Vetrenik
The national holiday was named in memory of the martyrs – Deacon Agathopod, reader Theodulus and others like them, who gave their lives for the faith in 303.
On this day, warm spring winds begin to blow. They say about inclement weather: “Fedul came and puffed up his lips.” Sometimes a more interesting version of the saying is used: “Fedul, why did you pout your lips? – Burnt your caftan. – How big is the hole? – Only one collar left.”
It was believed that with the first spring wind, crickets fly in and settle in gardens. Urticaria butterflies and ladybugs also appear.
On Fedula (Feodula) it was necessary to open the windows and speak to them in special words in order to protect the hut from rotten winds, from evil spirits, from commotion. However, the real reason for this custom was most likely the most mundane: after a long winter, the hut needed ventilation, and the warm wind could no longer cool the room down. It is no coincidence that they said: “Whoever opened the window before Fedul was the one who suffered from bad weather”; “I opened the window for Fedul and heated the hut without wood.”
The farmers observed: if there is snow the size of a cow left at the bottom of the ravine, it means they can start plowing.
Name day on this day
Alexey, Georgy, Mark, Nikolay, Plato, Semyon, Feodul.
Source: Calend.ru
