Holidays
- Military Signalman Day
- International Air Traffic Controller Day
- International Chef's Day
- World Statistics Day
- World Osteoporosis Day
- Sergius Zimny
- Feast of the Pskov-Pechersk Icon of the Mother of God “Tenderness”
- International Sloth Day
- Winter stocking day
- Anecdotal Meeting Day
- Writing Day
- Information Overload Day
- Primorsky Territory Day
- Virtual Desktop Cleanup Day
Significant dates
1714 Peter I issued a Decree banning stone construction throughout Russia, except St. Petersburg.
1740 Austrian Archduchess Maria Theresa has been declared heir to Charles VI of Habsburg.
1827 The Battle of Navarino took place.
1880 The Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard received its first spectators.
Persons
On October 20, 1350, the Grand Duke of Moscow and Vladimir (1368-1389) Dmitry Donskoy was born.
On October 20, 1847, Swedish shooter and three-time Olympic champion Oscar Swan was born.
On October 20, 1891, the English physicist who discovered the neutron, Nobel laureate James Chadwick, was born.
On October 20, 1923, Enrique Bernat, a Spanish businessman and founder of the Chupa Chups company, was born.
On October 20, 1927, Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, director, teacher, People's Artist of the USSR Igor Gorbachev was born.
On October 20, 1935, Soviet science fiction writer, publicist, and film playwright Eremey Parnov was born.
Folk calendar
Sergey Zimny
On this day the memory of two saints who bore the name Sergius is celebrated. The first of them, St. Sergius of Pechersk, lived in the 13th century. Another saint is Sergius of Nurom, or Vologda, who lived in the 14th and 15th centuries.
“Sergei is starting winter,” people said and were not surprised at the frosts that could strike on that day. However, if snow fell that day, and the trees had not yet completely shed their leaves, real winter was not expected soon – not earlier than on Matryona – “Sergei beats the grass with frost, but Matryona does not allow winter to turn back.”
Name day on this day
Joseph, Leonty, Mark, Nikolai, Pelageya, Sergey, Julian
Source: Calend.ru.
