Holidays September 16, 2024: name days, signs

Today, September 16, is Pharmaceutical Worker’s Day in Ukraine. There are 106 days until the New Year.

September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 106 days left before the end of the year.

What holidays are there in Ukraine and in the world?

• International Day for the Protection of the Ozone Layer.

• Parents at Work Day.

• Pharmaceutical Workers Day.

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What events happened on September 16

• 1408 – the last written Viking marriage recorded in the village church of Hvasli in Greenland.

• 1651 – an uprising of Cossacks, dissatisfied with the terms of truce in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, broke out in Bila Tserkva.

• 1658 – Hetman of Ukraine Ivan Vyhovsky concludes the Gadyach Treaty with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

• 1810 – Mexico declares independence from Spain and begins the Revolutionary War.

• 1859 – British explorer David Livingstone discovered Lake Nyasa (Africa).

• 1899 – The National Democratic Party was created in the western regions of Ukraine.

• 1908 – William Durant founded General Motors.

• 1914 – 2,500 Sich riflemen of the Ukrainian volunteer legion as part of the Austro-Hungarian army swore allegiance to the fight for the liberation of Ukraine.

• 1963 – The city-state of Singapore joins the new federation of Malaysia.

• 1975 – Papua New Guinea declares independence from Australia.

• 1987 – The Montreal Protocol for the Protection of the Earth’s Ozone Layer is signed.

• 2000 – Leonid Borodich, First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, coordinator of the Committee for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime under the President of Ukraine, crashed in a sports plane.

• 2002 – the active phase of the Ukrainian civil disobedience “Get up, it’s starting!”

Who was born on September 16

• 1981 – Sergei Belouschenko, Ukrainian rower, Olympic bronze medalist.

• 1981 – Lyudmila Pavlenko, Ukrainian skier, biathlete, Paralympic medalist.

• 1999 – Kirill Drishlyuk, Ukrainian football player, world youth champion.

What is today’s name day?: Victor, Grigory, Joseph, Alexey, Sergey, Lyudmila.

Folk signs and traditions for September 16

• Hearing thunder means winter without snow.

• Hot and dry days – expect a frost-free late winter.

• Completely yellow leaves mean that autumn will last a long time.

• Rooks gather in flocks – wait for clear weather.

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