Holidays
- Pushkin Day of Russia
- Russian Language Day
- International Clean Up Day
- Birthday of the electric iron
- Tetris birthday (0+)
- World Pest Day
- Points Day
- Drive-In Cinema Day
- Yo-Yo Toy Day (0+)
- Feast of the Stomper
- Dragon Drawing Day
- Black Bear Day
Significant dates
1882 American Henry Seeley patented an electric iron.
1922 The literary and artistic magazine “Peasant Woman” (0+) began publication.
1922 The Main Directorate for Literature and Publishing (Glavlit) was created in the USSR.
1944 The Normandy operation began, which opened a “second” front during the Second World War.
1956 In the USSR, tuition fees for senior secondary schools have been abolished.
1957 The Detsky Mir store has been opened in Moscow.
1984 Birthday of “Tetris” (0+) – the first computer version of this game appeared.
Persons
Spanish artist Diego Velazquez was born on June 6, 1599.
On June 6, 1749, the Spanish nobleman, Russian military man and statesman Osip Deribas was born.
On June 6, 1799, Russian poet, playwright and prose writer Alexander Pushkin was born.
On June 6, 1844, the Russian Itinerant artist and teacher Konstantin Savitsky was born.
On June 6, 1857, Russian mathematician and academician Alexander Lyapunov was born.
On June 6, 1869, German conductor and composer Siegfried Wagner was born.
On June 6, 1872, the Russian Empress (1894-1917), wife of Nicholas II, Alexandra Fedorovna Romanova, was born.
On June 6, 1888, Soviet political and party leader and revolutionary Valerian Kuibyshev was born.
On June 6, 1889, Russian and American aircraft designer and one of the pioneers of aircraft construction, Igor Sikorsky, was born.
On June 6, 1904, Soviet theater and film actress, People's Artist of the USSR Tatyana Peltzer was born.
Folk calendar
Free tree
In Rus' the wild rose was called the tree of freedom. From this day, as people believed, real summer began. That’s what they said: “The rose hips are blooming—the blush of the year leads.”
In Rus', rose hips were a symbol of youth, beauty and love. There was a legend about his origin: a beautiful young Cossack woman fell in love with a guy, but the village chieftain was seduced by her beauty, kidnapped the girl, and sent her fiance to war. The captive managed to escape into the forest; there she took her own life, and a bush with soft pink fragrant flowers grew on her grave. One day the chieftain saw this bush and decided to break off a branch with beautiful flowers, but it immediately became covered with sharp thorns and skinned the enemy’s hand in blood.
It was common among people to come to the rosehip bush to get rid of sadness and calm the soul. And when the rose hips were just blooming, the grandmothers sat down under them with their grandchildren and told them fairy tales. It was believed that this would help children get rid of their fears. The healing properties of rose hips were also valued.
On these days, the so-called summer, or green, Christmastide began. It was customary to decorate houses with vegetation and curl wreaths on birch trees. We observed signs: if it rains at this time, there will be a lot of mushrooms.
Name day on this day
Gregory, Ivan, Ksenia, Nikita, Semyon, Stepan, Fedor.
Source: Calend.ru.
