Holidays June 17, 2024: name days, traditions

Today, June 17, is World Devastation and Drought Relief Day. There are 197 days until the New Year.

June 17 is the 168th day of the year (169th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 197 days left before the end of the year.

What holidays are there in Ukraine and in the world?

• International Day to Combat Desertification and Drought.

• World Crocodile Day.

• World Karate Day.

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What happened on June 17

• 1462 – The Greek master Vlad III Dracul made an unsuccessful attempt to kill the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, after which he was forced to retreat from Wallachia.

• 1621 – at a meeting in Sukhaya Dibrovo near Bila Tserkva, Peter Sagaidachny proposed to Hetman Yakov Borodavka to unite their Cossack troops and help the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth army against the Ottoman army near Khotyn.

• 1709 – near the village of Nizhnie Melnitsy, not far from the Poltava fortress, in a battle with a Moscow detachment, the Swedish king Charles XII was wounded in the leg.

• 1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor, a gift from the French to the United States of America.

• 1917 – The Second All-Ukrainian Military Congress opened in Kyiv (lasted until June 23), where Ukraine’s autonomy was proclaimed (June 4 according to the Julian calendar).

• 1944 – Gaining independence from Denmark, Iceland declares itself a republic.

• 1950 – Chicago doctor Richard Lawler performed the first human kidney transplant in 45 minutes.

• 1953 – An uprising against the Stalinist regime begins in East Germany, which is brutally suppressed using tanks.

• 2008 – The Mozilla Foundation organized the so-called Download Day 2008 (Download Day 2008) to set a new Guinness record for the program downloaded the most times via the Internet in one day, the web browser Mozilla Firefox 3 performed paper such program.

• 2022 – The European Commission recommends granting candidate status to Ukraine for EU membership.

Who was born on June 17

• 1953 – Ivo Bobul, Ukrainian singer, composer. People’s Artist of Ukraine.

• 1969 – Viktor Petrenko, Ukrainian figure skater, Olympic champion.

• 1972 – Larisa Denisenko, Ukrainian writer, human rights activist, lawyer.

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Ivo Bobul

Whose birthday is today?: Joseph, Kirill, Clement, Nikita, Dina, Pelageya.

Folk signs and traditions for June 17

• There is a bright sun in the morning – tomorrow the weather will be cloudy.

• A crimson sunset means bad weather and strong winds.

• At night a rainbow can be seen in the sky – expect good weather until the end of summer.

• If it starts raining after noon, it will rain all day.

• In the morning there is no dew on the grass – it will soon rain.

• Worms crawl in the soil cavity – in the sediments.

• A storm at night means good weather during the day.

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