Holidays August 28, 2023: facts, traditions, signs

Aviation Day in Poland, the Day of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Day of Ternopil are the most interesting events on August 28 at Athletistic.

In the Gregorian calendar, August 28 is the 240th day of 2023. There are 125 days left in the year.

What holidays in Ukraine and the world

• Railway Day in Lithuania

• National Grandparents Day in Mexico

• Polish Aviation Day

• Assumption Day of the Blessed Virgin Mary

• Ternopil Day

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What happened on August 28

• 1921 – 47 members of the TsUPK (Central Ukrainian Insurgent Committee) are shot in Kyiv, among them Ivan Andrukh, co-founder of UVO, and military poet Grigory Chuprynka.

• 1924 – August speech of Georgians against Soviet power.

• 1925 – Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars Alexei Rykov signed a decree on the resumption of vodka production.

• 1937 – Toyota is founded in the Empire of Japan.

• 1941 – the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Volga Germans is liquidated in the Soviet Union, and all ethnic Germans of the republic are deported to Siberia and Central Asia.

• 1946 – The United States exercises its right to veto the admission to the UN of countries such as the Mongolian People’s Republic and the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania. The US is supported by the UK.

• 1963 – 200,000 marchers gather outside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington to protest segregation and discrimination. Martin Luther King, Jr., a black civil rights activist, gave his famous I Have a Dream speech.

• 1988 – Demonstration flights took place in the Federal Republic of Germany where three Italian aircraft in a formation flight collided over the American air base at Ramstein – the remains of the aircraft fell to the ground in a mass by observers, resulting in the deaths of 66 people.

• 1990 – Iraq declares annexation of Kuwait its 19th province, renames Kuwait’s capital city Kadima, and creates a new urban area named after Saddam Hussein. That same day, the new puppet government of the province of Kuwait was formed under the leadership of Alaa Hussein.

• 1996 – After 15 years of married life and 4 years of living separately, Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana were officially divorced by a court in London.

• 1999 – in the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, the tallest building at that time was opened – two 88-story twin towers of the Petronas Towers shopping and business center, each 452 meters high. The total area of ​​the complex is about one million square meters. One of the towers is occupied by the headquarters of the oil company Petronas, the second – the offices of its partners and other transnational corporations.

Who was born on August 28

• 1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German scientist and writer (Faust, The Suffering of Young Werther).

• 1863 – André Blondel, French physicist, inventor of the oscilloscope.

• 1877 – Charles Stuart Rolls, one of the co-founders of the Rolls-Royce company.

• 1887 – Dmitry Dyachenko, Ukrainian architect and public figure

• 1890 – Dmitry Zagul, poet, translator, literary critic. He died in the Bolshevik concentration camps in Kolyma in 1944.

• 1922 – Maria Lisovskaya, Ukrainian writer. Author of collections of short stories Until when I live – love, Rumors of the heart.

• 1925 – Arkady Strugatsky, Soviet science fiction writer and translator.

• 1942 – Sterling Morrison, guitarist with the New York band Velvet Underground.

• 1965 – Shania Twain, Canadian singer

• 1969 – Jason Priestley, American actor (place of Beverly Giles)

• 1982 – Leanne Rimes, American singer and actress

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Jason Priestley

Town and church holidays

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the day of the end of the earthly life of the Holy Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ. According to Christian tradition, this is called dormition, not death. According to the legend of this day, the apostles gathered in Jerusalem for the farewell and burial of the Virgin. It is celebrated as a great festival in the Eastern Christian churches – Orthodox and Catholic churches, as well as in the Armenian Church. According to the Gregorian and New Julian calendars, it is celebrated annually on August 15, according to Julian – on August 15 (28). On the same day, the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, events that took place immediately after the Assumption. Another name is First Pure, Assumption.

Traditions and rituals

According to tradition, in the temples on this holiday, the grain of the new harvest is consecrated, as well as fresh bread baked from freshly ground flour. The people of Assumption have a tradition of dozhinki: for the holiday, an uncompressed sheaf is left in the field. A bread baked from flour from this sheaf is considered healing, a piece of it should be tried by everyone, and a part is left in a secluded place – as a charm to prevent hunger and pain

Signs

• if the day is sunny and warm – Indian summer will be cold;

• rainbow today – autumn will be warm and sunny;

• many plots – there will be little snow in winter;

• it began to rain – this period will be until the end of September;

• fog today – to harvest mushrooms.

Who has a birthday today?

Mary’s name day on August 28 is celebrated.

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Name day August 28

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