Holidays on December 13, 2023: name days, traditions

International Violin Day and Taylor Swift’s birthday are the most interesting events on December 13 at Athletistic.

What are the holidays on December 13 in Ukraine and the world

• International Violin Day.

• Christmas Sweater Day.

What events happened on December 13 in Ukraine and in the world

• 1577 – an English squadron of 5 ships (164 crew members) led by Francis Drake sailed from Plymouth (England) to attack the Pacific coast of Spanish possessions in the New World.

• 1642 – Dutch explorer Abel Tasman becomes the first European to visit the group of South Pacific islands now known as New Zealand.

• 1769 – 13-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart begins his first concert tour in Italy.

• 1913 – the grand opening of the National Museum in Lviv as the property of the Ukrainian community; Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky became the organizer of the museum.

• 1917 – Kurultai proclaimed the Crimean People’s Republic.

• 1917 – The Ukrainian Central Rada officially formed the Air Fleet.

• 1942 – Paris Rossing football player Stephane Stanis scored 16 goals against the Aubry team in a French Cup match (a world record for professional football).

• 1958 – American scientists launched a living creature into space with a return, the monkey Gordo aboard the AM-13 rocket spends 15 minutes in space, but upon returning to Earth, the capsule with the monkey sink into the ocean.

• 1992 – the three-day meeting of the 12 countries of the European Community ended in Edinburgh, where compromise decisions were made on all the most important controversial issues: the amount of contributions from the poorest countries – Spain, Ireland, Greece and Portugal – was reduced taking into account their economic capabilities, some economic measures were agreed to overcome the economic decline, and Denmark’s refusal to join the European Monetary Union stopped hindering the country’s further integration in a united Europe.

• 1994 – The first organizational meeting of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), created as an international association for the development and distribution of unified Internet data transfer protocols, took place at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA ).

• 2004 – Andrei Shevchenko won the Golden Ball.

Who was born on December 13

• 1877 – Nikolai Leontovich, Ukrainian composer.

• 1893 – Nikolai Khvylevoy, Ukrainian prose writer, poet, publicist, one of the founders of Ukrainian post-revolutionary prose

• 1926 – Yaroslav Dashkevich, Ukrainian historian.

• 1946 – Vladimir Bystryakov, Ukrainian pianist, composer.

• 1967 – Jamie Foxx, American actor and singer, participant in stand-up comedy.

• 1989 – Taylor Swift, American singer.

Folk signs and traditions for December 13

• what the weather is like today, it will be like this all January;
• pets drink a lot of water – expect a blizzard;
• magpies sit in the snow – to heat;
• the wolves will be heard howling, therefore, the heavy frost is about to strike;
• a snowstorm on this day indicates late winter;
• bright stars in the sky – expect frost.