Holidays
- World Bicycle Day
- International Running Day
- Truant Festival
- Snow Remembrance Day
- Parachute birthday
- Feast of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God
- World Clubfoot Day
- egg day
- Chocolate Macaroons Day
- Repetition day
- Tailors' Day
Significant dates
1785 Birthday of the parachute – Francois Blanchard demonstrated the parachute he designed.
1892 Foundation day of Liverpool Football Club.
1927 The Red Gate in Moscow has been demolished.
1943 The French National Liberation Committee was created.
1965 Astronaut Edward White became the first American and second person in the world to walk in outer space.
1989 A major train accident occurred in the Chelyabinsk region.
Persons
On June 3, 1796, the Russian poet, critic and translator Mikhail Dmitriev was born.
On June 3, 1843, the Russian naturalist, one of the founders of the Russian school of plant physiology, Kliment Timiryazev was born.
King George V of Great Britain (1910-1936) was born on June 3, 1865.
On June 3, 1876, Russian and Soviet surgeon, founder of Russian neurosurgery Nikolai Burdenko was born.
On June 3, 1881, Russian painter, graphic artist, theater artist, and art theorist Mikhail Larionov was born.
On June 3, 1906, Soviet director, actor, playwright and film theorist, People's Artist of the USSR Sergei Gerasimov was born.
On June 3, 1908, Soviet and Russian archaeologist and historian, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Boris Rybakov was born.
Folk calendar
Venison Day
On this day, the memory of Saint Helena, who lived in the 3rd and 4th centuries, is honored. She was the mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine I and became famous for her work in spreading Christianity.
In Rus', on this day they began to sow flax and performed special rituals for its good harvest. The old women collected a pair of baked chicken eggs from each woman in the village and put them in a bag of seeds. A man, having gone to the field to sow flax, first of all started to eat breakfast and brought home only shells. According to another custom, the sower had to throw the baked eggs as high as possible – for the high growth of the flax.
On the same day they paid a lot of attention to cucumbers, saying: “For Olena (Elena) – flax, for Konstantin – cucumbers.” The housewife, taking an old bast shoe, dragged it to the garden, threw it on the garden bed and said: “How thickly this bast shoe was woven, so that my cucumbers were woven thickly.”
But what should not have been woven on Olena is a braid. On this day, girls had to go bare-haired so that their hair would be beautiful and long.
Noticed signs of the weather. If the day on Olena was rainy, then a stormy autumn was expected. If it rained with hail, it foreshadowed snow and pellets on December 3rd.
Name day on this day
Elena, Kirill, Konstantin, Mikhail, Fedor, Yaroslav.
Source: Calend.ru.
