Holidays April 20, 2023: name day, signs

The first detective story, obtaining pure radium – the most interesting events on April 20 at Athletistic.

April 20 is the 110th day of the year (111th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 255 days left before the end of the year.

What holidays in Ukraine and the world

• Volunteer Appreciation Day

• UN Chinese Language Day

Church holidays

• Commemoration of Saint Agnes of Montepulchian

• Commemoration of Martyr Rufinus, Deacon, Martyr Akilina the Younger

• Commemoration of the Byzantine Icon of the Mother of God

Unforgettable dates

• 1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Long Parliament in England

• 1770 – James Cook discovers New South Wales (Southeast Australia)

• 1841 – Poe’s first detective story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, is published.

• 1865 Salvation battles are first announced

• 1902 – Marie and Pierre Curie obtain pure radium

• 1914 – The second seaplane race for the Schneider Cup was held in Monaco

• 1917 – first flight of the first US Navy airship DN-1

• 1918 – The Slavic group of the Separate Zaporozhye division of the UNR Army liberated the city of Slavyansk, Donetsk region, from the Bolsheviks

• 1920 – The VII Summer Olympic Games opened in Antwerp, Belgium

• 1940 – the first electron microscope is presented in the USA

• 1949 – The First World Peace Congress opens

• 1993 – Backstreet Boys formed

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Marie and Pierre Curie in the laboratory, 1900

What is tomorrow’s name day?

George, Daniel, Yuri, Yegor, Akulina.

Folk omens

• a large number of stars indicates a good harvest of berries and mushrooms

• the presence of frost – about a large amount of bread and buckwheat

• rain – about a good harvest of raspberries

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