Holidays August 18: name day, signs

World Breast Cancer Research Day – the most interesting events on August 18 at Athletistic.

What holidays in Ukraine and the world

• World Breast Cancer Research Day.

• Never Receding Sun.

• Bad poetry day.

What events took place in Ukraine and in the world on August 18

• 293 BC e. – the oldest (known) Roman temple was founded in honor of the goddess Venus.

• 1201 – founded the city of Riga (Latvia).

• 1649 – Bohdan Khmelnitsky signed with the king of the Commonwealth, Jan II Kazimir Zborowski, a peace treaty, according to which the Zaporizhzhya Army on the territory of 3 voivodeships (Kiev, Bratslav and Chernigov) received autonomy, and the Cossack register was set at 40 thousand people.

• 1743 – Jack Broughton formulated the rules of boxing.

• 1786 – Reykjavik is founded.

• 1826 – Scottish explorer Alexander Gordon Leng is the first European to reach the ancient city of Timbukta on the banks of the Niger.

• 1868 – French astronomer Pierre Jansen discovered a new element – helium – while studying the solar spectrum.

• 1920 – The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution is ratified, giving women the right to vote.

• 1941 – NKVD workers blew up the Dnieper hydroelectric power station, resulting in the death of about 100 thousand residents of the coastal zone and the Red Army.

• 1962 – Ringo Starr performed for the first time as the band’s drummer The Beatles.

• 1992 – established the Honorary Distinction of the President of Ukraine, the first award of independent Ukraine (from 1996 – the Order For merit).

• 2006 – The IV World Forum of Ukrainians begins in Kyiv.

Who was born on August 18

• 1917 – Vasily Borodai, People’s Artist of Ukraine.

• 1965 – Major General of the State Border Service of Ukraine, Hero of Ukraine Igor Momot.

• 1977 – Andriy Derizemlya, Ukrainian biathlete, the first medalist in Ukrainian history of the biathlon world championship.

Folk signs and traditions on August 18

• The weather on August 18 indicates what December will look like.
• Leeches float on top of water – rain.
• The water in the river is bubbling – it will rain in a day.
• Seagulls began to swim in the water – in bad weather.