Holidays September 4, 2023: traditions, name days, signs

Day of Unfamiliar Roads and International Taekwondo Day, Los Angeles was founded and the last great geographical discovery was made – we talk about these and other events on September 4 in Athletistic material.

In the Gregorian calendar, September 4 is the 247th day of the year 2023. There are 118 days left in the year.

What are the holidays on September 4

• World Taekwondo Day. For the first time it began to be celebrated, of course, in South Korea – the homeland of this martial art.

• Day of the Savior of Armenia

• Day of the Customs Service of Moldova

• Day of unfamiliar roads

• Wildlife Day in the USA. The country, which occupies almost half of the mainland, has a large range of natural and climatic conditions. In the territory of the United States, you can find both hot dry deserts and humid evergreen forests, both harsh mountainous landscapes and endless expanses of grassy plains or dense forests. For these reasons, the country’s territory is usually divided into eight natural provinces, which for simplicity are combined into four zones: the regions of the Cordillera mountains, the central plains, the Appalachians and the coastal plains, separating Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands into separate natural complexes. .

• USA Macadamia Day

• Book Day in Tajikistan

• Newspaper Day in the USA

• Immigrant Day in Argentina

• Iran Cooperation Day

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Day of unfamiliar roads

What events took place on September 4 in Ukraine and in the world

• 1781 – 44 Spanish settlers founded the city of Los Angeles, California, USA.

• 1837 – at New York University, Samuel Morse first demonstrated his invention – the telegraph.

• 1882 – In New York, Thomas Edison launches the world’s first central power plant and opens commercial electric lighting for the first time in history (85 paying customers in total).

• 1885 – The first self-service cafe in the United States opens in New York.

• 1888 – American inventor George Eastman registered a brand – Kodak; on the same day he received a patent for roll film in cassettes and a camera for shooting on film.

• 1913 – the last major geographical discovery. The expedition on the icebreakers Taimyr and Vaygach discovered the Land of Nicholas II and the island of Tsarevich Alexei (now Severnaya Zemlya).

• 1940 – The American Columbia broadcasting system showed a color television picture on station W2XAB.

• 1959 – a new thing appears on sale in the USA – tights.

• 1962 – the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis: President John F. Kennedy warned Fidel Castro that the United States would reject Cuban military action in the zone of its interests by all means; on the same day, Moscow declared that direct US intervention against Cuba would lead to international conflict.

• 1975 – the first issue of the game What? where? when?

• 1998 – Google is founded.

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Los Angeles

Who was born on the 4th of September

• 1874 – Alexander Vishnevsky, military surgeon, creator of the famous healing ointment.

• 1934 – Eduard Khil, pop singer (baritone).

• 1981 – Beyoncé, American R&B singer, dancer, music producer, actress, designer

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Town and church holidays

Today, September 4, Orthodox believers commemorate the martyrs Agathonikos, Zotik, Theoprepius (Bogolepov), Akindin, Severian, Zinon and others. They were all the first Christians to receive torture and death under the emperor Maximian (284-305).

The national holiday Agathon Ogumennik is celebrated on September 4th. On this day, the Orthodox Church honors the martyr Agathonikos. Other holiday names: Agathon, Agathon’s day, Bean gum, Fun of the goblin.

According to popular beliefs, the night in Agathon is distinguished by the tricks of the elf: “In Agathon, the elf comes out of the forest to the field, runs through the villages and fields, scatters sheaves in the streams. “

In folk legends, the devil is a spirit of the forest, whose main task is to ensure that no one harms his household. Accordingly, the devil also applies to people: the good ones, who do not cut the branches in vain and do not kill the beast, help to get out of the forest by a quick and short path, and the bad ones make them wander theirs. circle, and perhaps even lead them into the thicket. They say that in appearance the elf resembles a person, it can take on the appearance of a friend.

Traditions and rituals

It is believed that a wooden goblin came to Agathon from the forest and began to have fun: scatter hay, bread and hay. The most desperate are on duty at night in a stream with a poker and in a fur coat, dressed outside (it is believed that it is this type that should scare the goblin). The others tried to calm him down and left freshly baked pies in the barn, as well as butchered black roosters.

Signs

• If a girl or a young woman does not eat anything that day, until sunset, she will retain her beauty for a long time.

• You cannot give and receive gifts: there will be a fight between the giver and the addressee

• Sunny days in Agathon – until sunny and warm September

Who has a birthday today?

Name days on September 4 are celebrated by: Alexander, Alexei, Anfisa, Ariadna, Athanasius, Vasily, Gavrilo, Ivan, Hilarion, Isaac, Catherine, Macarius, Mikhail, Moses, Rosa, Rosalia, Severyan, Felix.

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Name day September 4

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