Holidays December 15: name days, traditions, signs

Court Workers’ Day and Tea Day – the most interesting events on December 15, 2023 at Athletistic.

December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 16 days left until the end of the year.

What are the holidays on December 15 in Ukraine and the world?

• Court Workers Day.

• International Tea Day.

• United Nations Environment Protection Organization (UNEP) Foundation Day.

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What events happened on December 15 in Ukraine and in the world

• 533 – Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals led by King Gelimer at the Battle of Tycameron.

• 1025 – During the preparation of a campaign against Sicily against the Arabs, Vasily II the Bulgarian Slayer, the Byzantine emperor, died at the age of about 69 years.

• 1640 – Duke John of Braganza ascends the Portuguese throne under the name John IV.

• 1791 – Ten amendments to the Constitution are ratified in the United States.

• 1880 – The Kharkov Water Supply Society built the first water supply system in Kharkov.

• 1915 – The American newspaper New York Times published an article about the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

• 1917 – The Moldavian Democratic Republic is proclaimed in Chisinau.

• 1917 – The Ukrainian Central Council adopted a law establishing the General Court.

• 1939 – David Selznick’s film Ringing with the Wind, starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, premiered in Atlanta.

• 1950 – the Convention on the Establishment of the Customs Cooperation Council (since October 1994 – the World Customs Organization) was signed in Brussels.

• 1961 – Former Gestapo Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann, who led the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question,” was sentenced to death by a Jerusalem court.

• 1964 – Canada adopts a national flag with a maple leaf.

• 1966 – French astronomer Audouin Dollfus discovers Saturn’s satellite Janus, which changes orbit with the satellite Epimetheus every 4 years.

• 1970 – For the first time, a spacecraft from Earth lands on another planet.

• 1995 – at the 5th meeting of the heads of state and government of 10 Southeast Asian countries in Bangkok, they signed an agreement in which this region was declared a nuclear-weapon-free zone.

• 1995 – The European Court of Justice rules in the so-called “Bosman case,” which changes football transfer policy.

• 2000 – The Chernobyl nuclear power plant finally ceased operation in Ukraine.

• 2000 – as a sign of protest against the policies of President Leonid Kuchma, participants of the action “Ukraine without Kuchma” set up the first tents in the main square of Kyiv.

• 2006 – first test flight of the latest fifth-generation fighter-bomber F-35 Lightning II

• 2008 – Montenegro officially applied to join the European Union.

• 2009 – the first test flight of the newest Boeing 787 Dreamliner took place.

• 2018 – the autocephalous local Orthodox Church of Ukraine was restored.

Who was born on December 15

• 1804 – Victor Bunyakovsky, Ukrainian mathematician.

• 1883 – Anna Sobachko-Shostak, Ukrainian artist, master of decorative painting.

• 1996 – Alexander Zinchenko, Ukrainian football player.

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Who has name day today? Volymir, Godislav, Eleutherius, Pavel, Stepan, Theophilia, Titus, Caesar.

Folk signs and traditions for December 15

• Freezes during the day, and it starts to get warmer at night – expect cold weather;

• the north wind blows – there will be severe frosts;

• Frost can be seen on the trees – next year will be fruitful;

• a cat climbs on the stove – to the cold;

• the tits are squawking since morning – there will be frosts;

• On this day there will be large snowdrifts – the summer will be warm, but not hot.

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