Holidays
- Day commander of the surface, underwater and aircraft
- Sergey Kaputnik
- Day of dumplings
- World Octopus Day
- Day of sunny smiles
- Sandwich's Day “Fliffernatter”
Significant dates
1191. Prince John captured the throne of England.
1906. Leo Tolstoy abandoned the Nobel Prize.
[1945TheAmericanPersiaSpencerpatentedthemicrowave1967. In the UK, a law was adopted for the first time regulating the content of alcohol in the blood of drivers.
1970. Alexander Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Persons
On October 8, 1848, the French composer Pierre Degeiter was born.
On October 8, 1871, a Russian fighter, athlete, honored artist of the RSFSR and Honored Master of Sports Ivan Poddubny was born.
On October 8, 1873, the Russian and Soviet architect Alexei Schusev was born.
On October 8, 1892, the Russian poetess, prose writer, translator Marina Tsvetaeva was born.
On October 8, 1907, the Soviet pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union Polina Osipenko, was born.
On October 8, 1911, a Soviet film actor, songwriter, People's Artist of the RSFSR Mark Bernes was born.
On October 8, 1923, the Romanian violinist and conductor Ion Voiku was born.
On October 8, 1925, a Russian writer, literary critic, critic, publicist Andrei Sinyavsky was born.
On October 8, 1926, American writer Louise Hay was born.
On October 8, 1931, a Soviet writer, journalist and screenwriter Julian Semenov was born.
On October 8, 1936, the Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR Leonid Kuravlev was born.
On October 8, 1938, a Russian restorer, art critic, publicist, honored figure of Russia Savva Yamshchikov was born.
On October 8, 1946, the Soviet skater, Olympic champion, Russian public figure Alexander Gorshkov was born.
On October 8, 1948, French actress Claude Zad was born.
On October 8, 1960, a Russian programmer, creator of the first Russian Rambler search engine Dmitry Kryukov was born.
People's calendar
Sergey Kaputnik, chicken coop
On this day, Orthodox people celebrate the memory of the greatest ascetic of the Russian land – Sergius of Radonezh.
On Sergei Kaputnik, Russian people as usual chopped cabbage, harvesting it for the winter. Experienced housewives knew that it was necessary to salt cabbage with the first frosts – not earlier, otherwise it would acidify. The whole family was engaged in salting: the children cleaned carrots and apples, the old people cut them. Men and women were slaughtered with cabbage, folded into tubs, covered with salt, added carrots, apples, lingonberries or cranberries. On a cabbage sheet, delicious cakes baked. When the dough was put on the sheet, they prayed that the winter would pass safely. Pies with cabbage were also served on the table on this day.
The second nickname, the chicken coop, went to the saint for the fact that he was considered a keeper of poultry, especially chickens. True, why Sergius of Radonezh fell such an “honor”, is difficult to say.
Sergey was judged by the establishment of winter. If the first snow fell on the coming night, they waited for the day on Mikhailov’s day, if the weather was clear, then the next three weeks should have been the same. They also watched the wind: if he blew from the north, it foreshadowed the cold winter, if from the south – warm, if from the west – snowy.
Name day on this day
Alexander, German, Eugene, Euphrosyne, Maxim, Nikolai, Pavel, Prokhor, Roman, Sergey, Fedor
Source: Calend.ru.
