Holidays August 1, 2024: name days, traditions

Today, August 1, is International Clown Day and Girlfriend Day. There are 152 days until the New Year.

August 1 is the 213th day of the year (214th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 152 days left before the end of the year.

What holidays are there in Ukraine and in the world?

• World Breastfeeding Week.

• International Clown Day.

• World Wide Web Day.

• Boyfriend’s day.

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What happened on August 1

• 30 BC e. – Roman commander Octavian’s fleet entered Alexandria and took Egypt under the control of the Roman Republic.

• 23rd year – Roman commander Julius Caesar Drusus, son of Emperor Tiberius, is poisoned by his wife Lavilla.

• 1192 – Richard the Lionheart’s army arrives at the Jaffa area and defeats Saladin’s troops.

• 1492 – the first written mention of the Zaporozhye Cossacks: near Tyaginya, on the lower reaches of the Dnieper, the Cossacks boarded an Ottoman galley, from which they freed the slaves.

• 1498 – explorer Christopher Columbus first set foot on continental America in the area of ​​the Paria Peninsula (modern Venezuela).

• 1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley obtained pure oxygen for the first time.

• 1780 – Sweden declares its permanent neutrality.

• 1838 – Slavery is outlawed in most of the colonies of the British Empire.

• 1924 – the Ukrainian society “Prosvita” was founded in Buenos Aires (Argentina).

• 1977 – The Central House of Artists opens in Kyiv.

• 1997 – in the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Naval flag of Ukraine was raised on a submarine, named “Zaporozhye”.

• 2016 – on the basis of part of the repair shops of PJSC “Zaporizhstal” the Zaporozhye Foundry and Mechanical Plant was formed.

• Who was born on August 1

• 1896 – Pyotr Samutin, Ukrainian military leader, Coronet General of the UPR Army, organizer of the Air Force.

• 1906 – Desideriy Milliy, Ukrainian artist.

• 1920 – Bohdan Osadchuk, Ukrainian publicist, scientist, researcher of the history of Central and Eastern Europe.

What is the name of the days: Alexander, Dmitry, Leonty, Sofia, Timofey, Fedor.

Folk signs and traditions for August 1

• There is a strong wind outside – a snowy and cold winter.

• The deer entered the reservoir – you can no longer swim in the rivers.

• Whatever the weather is today, that’s what it will look like on August 15th.

• Roses bloom – cold weather will come soon.

• Dandelions are still blooming – for a warm autumn.

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