Holidays August 16, 2024: name days, signs

Today, August 16th, is World Kite Day. There are 137 days until the New Year.

August 16 is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 137 days left before the end of the year.

What holidays are there in Ukraine and in the world?

• World Kite Day.

• International Pinot Noir Day.

• Men’s Beauty Day.

What happened on August 16

• 1649 – the 50,000-strong army of Bohdan Khmelnitsky defeats the 60,000-strong army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of King John Casimir near Zborov;

• 1788 – Minister of Finance of the Kingdom of France L. de Brienne declares the state bankrupt;

• 1804 – the first awarding of the Legion of Honor took place in the Bois de Boulogne;

• 1914 – The Main Ukrainian Council published a manifesto to the Ukrainian people about the First World War with a call to fight for the liberation of Ukraine;

• 1925 – Charlie Chaplin’s film “The Gold Rush” is released;

• 1960 – Cyprus declares independence;

• 1960 – the International Academy of Astronautics was founded;

• 1972 – The National Exhibition opens in Toronto, where Chinese manufacturers are represented for the first time in the Western world;

• 1985 – Madonna married actor Sean Penn;

• 1995 – the majority of Bermuda’s population voted in a referendum against independence and maintaining the status of a British colony.

Who was born on August 16

• 1958 – Madonna, American singer and actress.

• 1962 – Yuriy Izdryk, Ukrainian prose writer, poet, cultural critic, author of the Thursday conceptual magazine project.

• 1978 – Adriana Galetskaya, Ukrainian artist.

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What is today’s name day? Alexander, Ivan, Stepan, Yakov, Anna.

Folk signs and traditions for August 16

• Good weather for early spring.

• The birds have flown to warmer climates – it’s about to get cold.

• Cranes fly to the South – expect frost in Pokrov.

• The sun is setting behind a cloud – expect bad weather in the coming days.

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