Holidays on August 12, 2024: name days, signs

Today, August 12, is International Youth Day and Youth Day in Ukraine. There are only 141 days until the New Year.

August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 141 days left before the end of the year.

What holidays are there in Ukraine and in the world?

• World Elephant Day.

• International Youth Day and Youth Day.

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What happened on August 12

• 1099 – Crusaders defeat Muslims at Ascalon.

• 1658 – The first police force, the Ratelwacht, is formed in North America.

• 1851 – American Isaac Merritt Singer patented a foot-operated sewing machine.

• 1865 – British surgeon Joseph Lister first used phenol (carbolic acid) during surgery to disinfect instruments and doctors’ hands.

• 1896 – Gold is discovered in the Klondike River.

• 1916 – near Berezhany the battle for Mount Lysonya began between the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen and the Russian army.

• 1918 – The United States introduced a ban on the sale of alcohol in train stations.

• 1933 – the first match of the Ukrainian football team took place.

• 1947 – the first raids of the UPA departments entered Western Europe.

• 1949 – The Geneva Conventions for the Protection of War Victims were signed.

• 1949 – in London, due to the starlings located on the minute hand of the clock, Big Ben begins to delay the time by four and a half minutes.

• 1953 – Anne Davidson became the first woman to sail solo across the Atlantic Ocean in a yacht.

• 1962 – the first Ukrainian cosmonaut Pavel Popovich went into space.

• 1981 – the IBM PC personal computer is introduced.

• 1990 – near the city of Lubny, the Hill of Sorrow was laid – a monument to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933.

• 1992 – The United States, Canada and Mexico sign an agreement to create the North American Free Trade Area (the largest single trade area in the world).

• 1999 – in Ukraine they decided to close all the calming stations.

• 2010 – the highest temperature in the history of Ukraine was recorded in Lugansk + 42°C.

Who was born on August 12

• 1831 – Helena Blavatsky, occult writer of Ukrainian origin, founder of the Theosophical Society.

• 1911 – Andrey Beletsky – Ukrainian linguist, polyglot.

Whose birthday is today?: Alexander, Alexey, Anton, Arkady, Vasily, Vyacheslav, German, Dmitry, Efim, Ivan, Ilya, Leonid, Matvey, Mikhail, Nikolay, Peter, Sergey, Stepan, Fedor, Yakov.

Folk signs and traditions for August 12

• The first frost and frost – there will be many winter crops, garlic, and onions.

• There is fog over the forest – there will be many mushrooms.

• Cloudy weather means India’s summer will be short.

• A lot of fog means clear weather next week.

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