Holidays April 18, 2024: what not to do

Today, April 18, is the Day of Monuments of History and Culture of Ukraine. There are 257 days until the New Year.

April 18 is the 108th day of the year (109th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 257 days left before the end of the year.

What holidays are there in Ukraine and in the world?

• World Sites and Monuments Day.

• Newspaper Columnist Day.

• International Pizza Day.

• International Amateur Radio Day.

• Day of Historical and Cultural Monuments.

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What events happened in Ukraine and in the world

• 1187 – the first mention of Ukraine – in the Kyiv Chronicle related to the death of Pereyaslavl prince Vladimir Glebovich.

• 1506 – construction began on St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.

• 1521 – Martin Luther appeared at the Reichstag of Worms.

• 1648 – Bohdan Khmelnitsky arrives at the Zaporozhye Sich with a call for an uprising against the government.

• 1846 – The American Royal Earl House patents a telegraph apparatus.

• 1902 – Denmark became the first country to use fingerprints to identify criminals.

• 1906 – The American city of San Francisco suffered major damage due to an earthquake. 700 people died, 250,000 were left homeless. 28,000 buildings were destroyed.

• 1909 – The Vatican canonized Joan of Arc.

• 1921 – the first exploratory oil well of the Gazolina company in the Dashavskoye gas field produces gas from a depth of 395 m.

• 1934 – American Cantrell opens the first laundromat in Fort Worth, Texas.

• 1942 – American aircraft carried out the first bombing of Japanese territory.

• 1946 – in connection with the creation of the UN in Geneva, the dissolution of the League of Nations was announced.

• 1949 – Ireland leaves the British Commonwealth. The Republic of Ireland is proclaimed.

• 1956 – American actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

• 1961 – a demonstration took place in Kyiv against the closing of St. Andrew’s Church.

• 1966 – The first television broadcast of the Academy Awards took place in color.

• 1968 – The old London Bridge was sold to an American company, which moved the stone from Britain to Arizona, where it was rebuilt.

• 1995 – The Kyiv City Council decided to restore the ancient coat of arms of the city of Kyiv with the image of Archangel Michael.

• 2008 – a team of researchers from the University of Manchester managed to create the world’s smallest single-electron transistor, built on the basis of graphene nanofilms.

Who was born on April 18

• 1947 – Anna Kostiv-Huska, Ukrainian poet.

• 1978 – Sergey Grigorievich, Ukrainian businessman, computer game developer.

• 1995 – Andrey Verkhozmotr, officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Hero of Ukraine. Participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Whose birthday is today?: Anton, Vasily, Victor, Efim, Ivan, Kuzma, Felix, Ian, Tamara.

What not to do on April 18

• Women are forbidden from cutting their hair and styling their hair.

• You cannot have a marriage – the marriage will not be happy.

• Do not refuse help to those who ask you for it.

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