South-South Cooperation Day, Crochet Day and Elina Svitolina’s birthday are the most interesting events on September 12 at korrespondent.net.
September 12 is the 255th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 110 days left before the end of the year.
- South-South Cooperation Day, according to the decision of the General Assembly No. 66/550, the celebration was moved from December 19 to September 12 (since 2012).
- World Crochet Day.
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490 BC e. – Battle of Marathon (during the Greco-Persian War, Greek troops under the command of Miltiades defeated the Persian troops of Darius I).
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1504 – Christopher Columbus sails from America to Spain on his fourth and final voyage.
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1683 – The Battle of Vienna takes place, as a result of which the united army of the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, led by John III Sobieski, defeats the Ottoman army.
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1789 – French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat publishes the first issue of the newspaper Friend of the People.
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1898 – Kiev Polytechnic Institute opens in Kyiv.
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1934 – a political union of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia (the so-called Baltic Entente) was formed.
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1937 – The NKVD of the USSR began a large-scale operation to eliminate criminal elements.
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1940 – near the settlement of Montignac (France), four local teenagers found a cave-grotto with wall paintings 15-17 thousand years old and now one of the best collections of prehistoric paintings of the Early Paleolithic period.
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1944 – The first American troops enter German territory.
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1953 – six months after the death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev was elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR.
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1958 – The first microcircuit was created at Texas Instruments.
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1990 – signed the final agreement with respect to Germany.
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1991 – in Kyiv, the monument in honor of the October Revolution in Independence Square was dismantled.
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2008 – the first Queen concert in Ukraine took place in Kharkov, which was attended by approximately 350 thousand spectators.
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1838 – Arthur Awers, German astronomer.
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1875 – Alexander Koshits, Ukrainian composer, conductor, ethnographer.
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1892 – Yuriy Korpanyuk, Hutsul folk master of wood carving.
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1897 – Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist, winner of the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (with her husband Frédéric Joliot).
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1900 – Gaskell Curry, American mathematician and logician. Two programming languages are named in his honor: Curry and Haskell.
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1921 – Stanislaw Lem, Polish science fiction writer.
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1956 – Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer.
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1961 – Mylene Farmer, French singer, composer, actress.
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1965 – Evgeniy Alipov, Ukrainian hockey player and coach.
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1986 – Emmy Rossum, American actress.
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1973 – Paul Walker, American (Hollywood) actor, model, race driver, philanthropist.
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1994 – Kim Namjoon, better known as RM, is a South Korean singer, songwriter and producer.
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1994 – Elina Svitolina, Ukrainian tennis player.
Believers on this day honor the memory of St. Alexander of Svirsky, St. Alexander and Prince Alexander Nevsky. On this day, wonderful festivities were held.
The obligatory dish on September 12 is barley porridge with milk, as well as bread baked from the flour of the new harvest.
This day is called Sytnik. And all because rich tables were set for guests, feasts were arranged after the passing summer and in honor of the beginning of autumn. Barley porridge with milk is always on the table. It was also called sychena because it was sweetened with a honey infusion, called “full”. Naturally, there is also the freshest bread made from flour from the fresh harvest.
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You can’t be jealous, otherwise the couple won’t be happy.
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You can’t gossip or talk to someone behind their back.
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On this day, you cannot dry pillows and bed linen outside, otherwise you will have nightmares.
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You can’t wash your hair, you can go bald early.
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On September 12, kittens cannot be brought home.
- Hedgehogs dig holes on the edge of the forest – it will be a warm winter. If the hedgehogs walk deep into the forest, then the winter will be cold and windy.
- Starry night – next year will be fruitful.
- Warm night – for harvesting winter crops.
- A strong starfall means famine, crop failure and epidemics.
- You can not greet the first guest in the house today – it means bad luck.
Name days on September 12 are celebrated by: Daniil, Ivan, Alexey, Afanasy, Semyon, Fedor, Julian, Ian.
Source: korrespondent
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