Holidays
- International Day of the Girl Child
- Kharitonov day
- It's My Party Day
- World Obesity Day
- Sausage Pizza Day
- Off-road day
- Day of breathing autumn air
- Intercession Parents' Saturday
- Motorcycle Day
- World Migratory Bird Day
Significant dates
1552 The troops of Ivan the Terrible took Kazan, as a result the Kazan Khanate was annexed to Russia.
1783 The Russian Academy was founded in St. Petersburg.
1852 The first university opened in Australia.
1931 In the USSR, a decision was made to completely eliminate private trade.
1936 Birthday of Uralvagonzavod.
1961 The first underground nuclear explosion occurred at the Semipalatinsk test site.
1982 Part of the hull of the sailing ship Mary Rose has been raised in the Solent.
1994 In Russia there was a collapse of the ruble against the dollar (“Black Tuesday”).
Persons
On October 11, 1884, an American public figure, wife of US President Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, was born.
On October 11, 1885, French writer and Nobel laureate Francois Mauriac was born.
Russian writer Boris Pilnyak was born on October 11, 1894.
Argentine singer Gilda was born on October 11, 1961.
Folk calendar
Kharitonov day
On this day, the memory of the Monk Chariton the Confessor, who lived in the 3-4 centuries in Iconium (a city in Asia Minor), is celebrated.
Kharitonov's day in Rus' was considered unkind. On this day, you had to stay at home, not go to visit people, and even, if possible, not go out into the yard, so that evil people would not jinx it and cause damage. Household chores were also not to be done; under no circumstances was it permissible to sweep dirty linen out of the hut – this was considered a bad omen. Thus, the peasants, willy-nilly, had to remain idle all day. “Khariton is a loss in the hut,” people lamented about this.
On this day, one should especially be wary of brown-eyed, and even more so, black-eyed people. “Be afraid of brown and black eyes”; “The eye is not clean, not good, black”; “Evil eye, don’t look at us,” that’s what they said about people who could bring the evil eye.
On Khariton, the bride and groom secretly came to the village witch, treated her to a pie and gave her a pot of honey. So they tried to appease the witch so that she would not upset the wedding and would not cause infertility to her future wife.
Name day on this day
Alexander, Alexey, Anatoly, Anna, Afanasy, Valentin, Vasily, Vyacheslav, George, Gregory, Ephraim, Ivan, Hilarion, Ilya, Isaac, Kirill, Makar, Maria, Mark, Matvey, Moses, Prokhor, Sergey, Tatyana, Ulyana, Fedor, Khariton
Source: Calend.ru.
