Holidays May 21, 2024: name days, traditions

Today, May 21, 2024, is International Tea Day and International Space Day. There are 224 days until the New Year.

May 21 is the 141st day of the year (142nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 224 days left in the year.

What holidays are there in Ukraine and in the world?

• World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development.

• memorial day

• International Tea Day.

• International Space Day.

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What happened on May 21

• 1502 – Spanish navigator Joao da Nova, in the service of the Portuguese, discovers the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic.

• 1503 – Christopher Columbus discovers the Cayman Islands.

• 1809 – near Aspern near Vienna, Napoleon suffered the first defeat of his life on the battlefield from the Austrian Archduke Charles.

• 1831 – the first almanac in Ukraine – “Ukrainian Almanac” – was published in Kharkov.

• 1840 – New Zealand is declared a British colony.

• 1892 – Ruggero Leoncavallo’s opera “Pagliacci” is staged in Milan.

• 1904 – The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) is founded in Paris.

• 1916 – Daylight saving time is introduced in Great Britain for the first time in practice in the world.

• 1918 – in Kyiv, representatives of various parties formed the Ukrainian National-State Union.

• 1918 – The All-Ukrainian Trade Union Council was created.

• 1928 – Walt Disney received a patent for the exclusive use of the Mickey Mouse image.

• 1991 – the resignation of Ethiopian President Mengistu Haile Mariam and his flight from the country.

• 1992 – Crimean Parliament cancels Crimean independence referendum, planned for August.

• 2000 – in a referendum in Switzerland, the majority of residents voted for expanding relations with the European Union.

• 2006 – in a referendum, the population of Montenegro voted for independence from Serbia.

Who was born on May 21

• 1906 – Mikhail Pokotylo, Ukrainian actor, director.

• 1929 – Emmanuel Misko, Ukrainian sculptor.

• 1952 – Lesya Stepovichka, Ukrainian poet, translator, prose writer.

• 1969 – Georgy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist and public figure

Whose birthday is today?: Fedor, Kirill, Konstantin, Mikhail, Elena, Yaroslav.

Folk signs and traditions for May 21

• What the weather is like today will be the same in autumn.

• The stars twinkle – it will rain.

• Hot at night and during the day – expect prolonged bad weather.

• The cuckoo is calling – it will be hot throughout the first summer months.

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