Holidays
- International Day of Culture
- Titanic Memorial Day
- Day of Environmental Knowledge
- Day of Electronic Warfare Specialist of the Russian Armed Forces
- Laundry day
- A day of traveling light
- World Art Day
- Glazed Ham Day
- International Laboratory Diagnostics Specialist Day
- Rubber eraser day
Significant dates
1834 By order of the highest order, the magazine “Moscow Telegraph” (12+) has been closed.
1912 The passenger liner Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean.
1951 The first Miss World beauty contest (16+) took place in London.
1989 In Sheffield, 96 spectators died during a football match.
1993 The All-Russian Days of Protection from Environmental Hazards have started, which have now become an annual environmental event.
Persons of the day
On April 15, 1452, the Italian artist, scientist, inventor, and “universal” genius of the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci, was born.
On April 15, 1684, the Russian Empress (1725-1727), the second wife of Peter I, Catherine I, was born.
On April 15, 1707, Swiss, German and Russian mathematician, mechanic, physicist, and academician Leonhard Euler was born.
On April 15, 1812, the French landscape artist, founder of the Barbizon school, Theodore Rousseau, was born.
On April 15, 1858, the French sociologist, one of the founders of sociology as an independent science, Emile Durkheim was born.
On April 15, 1886, the Russian poet, founder of the school of Acmeism, literary critic, and traveler Nikolai Gumilyov was born.
On April 15, 1896, Soviet chemist, one of the founders of chemical physics, Nobel laureate Nikolai Semenov was born.
On April 15, 1912, the Korean politician, founder and first head of North Korea, Kim Il Sung, was born.
On April 15, 1921, the Soviet pilot-cosmonaut, Major General of Aviation, Hero of the Soviet Union Georgy Beregovoi was born.
On April 15, 1933, Soviet and Russian science fiction writer, screenwriter, and translator Boris Strugatsky was born.
Folk calendar
Tit Icebreaker
On this day, the Orthodox Church celebrates the memory of St. Titus the Wonderworker, who lived in the 9th century.
Saint Titus received the nickname “Icebreaker” among the people because on his day rivers and lakes are finally opened. It was customary to carefully observe this process: if the ice sinks and sinks to the bottom, then you need to prepare for a difficult year. If the hollow water spills, you can expect good grass and early mowing. And if the ice has not yet melted to Titus, it means that fishing this spring will be poor. We watched Titus and the birds. If a quail calls, there will be a lot of bread and a lot of grass.
This day was also called Breadless Day. Grain supplies were running out, and people began to subsist on bread for kvass. On this occasion they said: “Once upon a time there was a shovelful of life for everyone, but now they have survived – their legs have shrunk”; “Whoever has nothing, but we have even worse.” Despite the difficult times, the grain stored for sowing was not touched. It was a taboo: “Sell the cow, and sow the field with good seed”; “Starve yourself, but don’t deprive the field of grain.”
Traders, on the contrary, called this date “profit day.” They tried to celebrate it as noisily as possible – this promised good profits throughout the year.
Often the day of Titus falls during the period of Lent. This explains many jokes, sayings and sayings about Titus. “Our Titus even commits fornication during Lent”; “Drunken Titus repeats psalms”; “Our Titus has both pitot and bito,” to name just a few.
Name day on this day
George, Gregory, Efim, Titus.
Source: Calend.ru
