Holidays on this day
- New Year's Eve
- Decision day
- End of the financial year
- Day of meditation about peace on the planet
- Universal Peace Hour Day
- Confetti and glitter trail day
Significant events in history
1857 Queen Victoria of England declared Ottawa the capital of the British colony.
1869 The ruins of the Temple of Artemis of Ephesus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, have been discovered.
1898 The first long-distance telephone line from St. Petersburg to Moscow opened in Russia.
1942 The defense of the Caucasus during the Great Patriotic War was completed.
1943 Zhitomir is finally liberated from the Nazi invaders.
1968 The world's first supersonic passenger aircraft, the Tu-144, made a test flight.
1999 Boris Yeltsin announced his early resignation as head of state.
Persons
On December 31, 1842, the Italian painter, portrait painter and genre painter Giovanni Boldini was born.
On December 31, 1900, Soviet intelligence officer, Lieutenant Colonel of State Security Elizaveta Zarubina was born.
On December 31, 1912, Soviet military leader, rear admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union Sergei Osipov was born.
Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR Anatoly Kuznetsov was born on December 31, 1930.
On December 31, 1933, Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, People's Artist of Russia Semyon Farada was born.
Soviet figure skater, Olympic champion, coach Lyudmila Pakhomova was born on December 31, 1946.
Folk calendar
Modestov Day
On this day, the memory of St. Modest, who served as archbishop in Jerusalem in the 7th century, is celebrated.
In Rus', Saint Modest was considered the guardian of livestock, so they prayed to him for protection from death and predatory animals. On this day, men usually organized fraternities – joint feasts, at which meat dishes were certainly served. In this way the saint was thanked for caring for the flocks. But women on Modest were forbidden to play cards: they said that otherwise in the summer the chickens would start pecking at the cucumbers.
You could predict your fate for the next year using Modest. To do this, they lay down on the current where they threshed bread, and listened: if a fortuneteller knocks, he will die, if it rings, a wedding, and if threshing is heard, he will be rich.
In the evening of this day, they took 12 boxes of salt, each of which was named after one of the months, and the next morning they checked: in which box the salt was soaked, that month would be wet. Separately, they predicted the weather for June: it should be the same as on Modest’s Day.
Name day on this day
Vera, Victor, Vladimir, Georgy, Elizaveta, Zoya, Ivan, Ilya, Mark, Martin, Mikhail, Modest, Nikolay, Sevastyan, Semyon, Sergey, Sophia, Thaddeus, Fedor.
Source: Calend.ru.
