Holidays
- Father's Day
- All-Russian Lyceum Student Day
- Letter to the Future Day
- Fomin's day
- Road Workers Day
- Food Industry Workers Day
- Rate Your Life Day
- New Friends Day
- Seafood Soup Day
- World Children's Bone and Joint Day
- Squashed Bubbles Day
- World Toy Camera Day
Significant dates
1097 At the council of princes in Lyubech, the division of Rus' into appanage principalities was legalized.
1941 The Great Patriotic War – a state of siege was declared in Moscow.
1943 The antibiotic streptomycin was discovered.
1956 The Joint Soviet-Japanese Declaration on ending the war and restoring diplomatic relations was signed.
1960 The beginning of the economic blockade of Cuba – the US government imposed an embargo on trade with Cuba.
Persons
On October 19, 1882, Italian artist, sculptor and futurist theorist Umberto Boccioni was born.
On October 19, 1918, the Soviet poet, screenwriter, and playwright Alexander Galich was born.
On October 19, 1939, Soviet and Russian artist and sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov was born.
Folk calendar
Fomin's day
On this day, the memory of St. Thomas, one of the Twelve Apostles, is celebrated.
In Rus', the peasants revered the Apostle Thomas because he was famous for his thrift and thrift. “Bring everything to Foma,” people said. A croma was a large bag or place in a barn for storing grain or other products. By the way, such words as “bins”, “secluded”, “modest” and others came from this same root. They said about a careless owner: “There’s a lot of land, but there’s a dog in it.”
By St. Thomas's Day, the results of the year were summed up – the amount of reserves was determined, and how to spend them during the winter was calculated. If the barns and cellars were full, they said: “Foma is glad that there is a lot of money.” In this case, they went to church and lit a candle in gratitude to the thrifty saint.
Signs of the weather were observed on Foma. If the day turned out to be windless, this foreshadowed an early cold snap. They also said that on this day the last cumulus clouds float across the sky.
Name day on this day
Ivan, Makar, Nikanor, Thomas
Source: Calend.ru.
