Holidays
- International Youth Solidarity Day
- International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace
- World Laboratory Animals Day
- Day of Remembrance of Russian Emergency Situations Ministry employees who died in the line of duty
- Birthday sparkling water
- Russian Dentist Day
- World Meningitis Day
- World Immunization Week
- Fashion Revolution Day
- Day of Stained Glass Fairy Tales
- Sausage Day
Significant dates
1671 Stepan Razin was handed over to the tsarist governors and was soon executed.
1682 Avvakum Petrovich, the head of the Old Believers, was burned in Pustozersk.
1800 The Library of Congress was founded.
1833 Soda's birthday – sparkling water is patented in the US.
1916 An uprising took place in Dublin, which went down in history as “Red Easter”.
1964 The Little Mermaid is beheaded in Copenhagen.
Persons of the day
On April 24, 1906, the Russian Princess of Imperial Blood Vera Romanova was born.
On April 24, 1930, Soviet and Russian sociologist and political scientist Yuri Levada was born.
Folk calendar
Antip Vodogon
Antipas of Pergamon, whose memory is celebrated on this day, was a disciple of John the Theologian, bishop of the Pergamon Church.
Antipas was popularly considered a healer of toothache. When a peasant had a toothache, they placed a silver coin on it, after a while they took it out of their mouth and made a hole in it. After this, the coin was hung on the icon of St. Antipas. According to legend, the pain should have subsided quickly.
Antipas was also called Vodogon – because on his day the flood was at its peak. People said: “Antipus clears the rivers of ice”; “Antip dissolved the water,” because by this time there were almost no ice floes left.
However, there were years when the rivers did not even open up on the day of Antipas – this promised a poor grain harvest and an unfavorable summer. If the water spread widely, one should wait for a fertile year: “If there was water, then bread would be born.”
We also monitored the weather that day. The rains foreshadowed that there would be a lot of mushrooms in the forest. And if frost hits, the milk mushrooms will come out abundantly.
On Antipas, the peasants never carried out field work – they did not sow seeds, they did not plant seedlings. This day was considered unfavorable for planting.
Among other things, it was believed that it was on Antipas that the bear leaves its den.
Name day on this day
Antip, Efim, Ivan, Nikolai, Peter, Prokhor, Yakov.
Source: Calend.ru
