Holidays April 25, 2024: name days, signs

Today, April 25, 2024, is World Penguin Day. There are 250 days before the New Year.

April 25 is the 115th day of the year (116th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 250 days left before the end of the year.

What holidays are there in Ukraine and in the world?

• World Malaria Day.

• World Penguin Day.

• International Day of Delegates.

• World DNA Day.

• International Secretary’s Day.

• Day of the hairdresser.

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What events happened in Ukraine and in the world

• 4241 BC – in Ancient Egypt they began to use a calendar with a year of 365 days.

• 1154 – Nur ad-Din’s Muslim troops conquer Damascus.

• 1185 – opposition troops defeat the imperial army at the Battle of Dannoura (Japan).

• 1498 – The Brotherhood of Blackheads is founded in Riga, which plays an important role in the life of the city.

• 1507 – German cartographer and geographer Martin Waldseemüller names the new, recently discovered continent America in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, explorer of the New World.

• 1660 – the constituent assembly decided to return the English throne to the Stuarts.

• 1781 – During the American Revolutionary War, British troops captured Petersburg (Virginia, USA).

• 1816 – George Byron, persecuted in his homeland by dirty rumors, leaves Great Britain for good.

• 1826 – A patent was received in Great Britain for the first car with an internal combustion engine.

• 1867 – The city of Tokyo was opened to foreign trade for the first time.

• 1901 – New York State introduced license plates for the first time in the world.

• 1940 – Women in Quebec gain the right to vote in elections.

• 1953 – Kiev Higher Engineering Radio Engineering School of Air Defense (KVIRT Air Defense) was formed.

• 1974 – victory of the “Carnation Revolution” in Portugal.

• 1976 – the first and only elections were held in Vietnam.

• 1994 – By order of the President of Ukraine, the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting was created.

• 1997 – Due to a programming error in Florida, the global Internet experiences the worst disruption in history.

• 2005 – The governments of Bulgaria and Romania sign an agreement to join the EU.

• 2008 – an international conference on the occasion of the 22nd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster was held in New York at the UN headquarters.

Who was born on April 25

• 1900 – Veronica Chernyakhovskaya, Ukrainian poet, translator. Shot by the Bolsheviks.

• 1961 – Vasily Rat, football player of Dynamo Kyiv, winner of the Cup Winners’ Cup, vice-champion of Europe.

• 1969 – Renee Zellweger, American actress.

• 1983 – Oleg Gusev, Ukrainian football player, midfielder of Dynamo (Kyiv) and the Ukrainian national team.

• 1996 – Miguel Herran, Spanish actor.

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Whose birthday is today?: Mark, Sylvester, Sergey and Vasily.

Folk signs and traditions for April 25

• A rainbow is visible above the sky – the weather will be clear.

• sunny and clear day – summer will be hot.

• to hear the crow of the cuckoo – there will be no more frost.

• Birds sing loudly all day – the weather will improve.

• It has been very cold – there will still be frosts in May.

• It’s a sunny day, but the flowers are closed – wait for the weather to get worse.

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