Holidays August 16: name day, traditions

Kite Day and Male Beauty Day are the most interesting events on August 16 at Athletistic.

August 16 is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 137 days left before the end of the year.

What holidays in Ukraine and the world

• World kite day.

• International Pinot Nois Day.

• Men’s Beauty Day (or Self-Care Day for men).

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What events took place in Ukraine and in the world

• 1649 – Bogdan Khmelnytsky’s 50,000th army defeats King Jan Casimir’s 60,000th Commonwealth army near Zborov.

• 1788 – The Minister of Finance of the Kingdom of France L. de Brienne declared the state bankrupt.

• 1804 – the first awarding of the Order of the Legion of Honor took place in the Bois de Boulogne.

• 1914 – The main Ukrainian Rada published a manifesto to the Ukrainian people in World War I with a call to fight for the liberation of Ukraine.

• 1919 – The 11th division of the Sich Riflemen Group of Roman Sushka of the UNR Army and the 21st Zbarazh brigade of the UGA Bohuslav Shashkevich liberated Shepetovka from the Bolsheviks.

• 1925 – Charlie Chaplin’s film The Gold Rush is released.

• 1960 – Cyprus declares independence.

• 1960 – The International Academy of Astronautics is founded.

• 1962 – Ringo Starr joins the Beatles, replacing former drummer – Pete Best.

• 1972 – The National Exhibition opens in Toronto, where Chinese manufacturers are exhibited for the first time in the Western world.

• 1975 – Peter Gabriel leaves Genesis, the charismatic vocalist is replaced by a drummer.

• 1985 – Madonna married actor Sean Penn.

• 1995 – the majority of the population of Bermuda in a referendum voted against independence and maintaining the status of a British colony.

Who was born on August 16

• 1931 – Yuri Starostenko, Ukrainian painter, graphic artist.

• 1933 – Anatoly Avdievsky, Ukrainian choir conductor, composer, teacher, choir leader named after Hryhoriy Veryovka, Hero of Ukraine.

• 1954 – James Cameron, American film director

• 1958 – Madonna, American singer

• 1962 – Yuriy Izdryk, Ukrainian prose writer, poet, culturologist, author of the conceptual magazine project on Thursday.

• 1978 – Adriana Galetskaya, Ukrainian artist.

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What are the birthdays today? Anton, Ivan, Kuzma, Nikolai, Solomiya.

Folk signs and traditions on August 16

• Cold and strong wind – winter will be frosty, and if warm – snowy and mild.

• South wind blows, dust swirls – winter will be snowy.

• The clouds are stretched in a line on the horizon – expect a strong wind.

• The chicken began to thaw – the cold is coming.

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What not to do today

• House cleaning.

• Cut and color the hair.

• Classify things.

• Fight and fight.

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