Holidays September 20, 2024: name days, signs

Today, September 20, is World Rice Day and World Paella Day. There are 102 days until the New Year.

September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 102 days left before the end of the year.

What holidays are there in Ukraine and in the world?

• World Rice Day.

• World Gynecological Oncology Day.

• International Paella Day.

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What events happened on September 20

• 1246 – in the Horde, the Grand Duke of Kyiv Mikhail Vsevolodovich was executed for refusing to worship idols.

• 1258 – the Cathedral in Salisbury (Kingdom of England), which took 38 years to build, was consecrated.

• 1519 – The first voyage around the world begins under the leadership of Ferdinand Magellan.

• 1562 – a treaty was signed between the Kingdom of England and the leader of the French Huguenots, Prince Condé, according to which England received Le Havre in exchange for providing troops to fight the Catholics.

• 1610 – Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth commander Stanislaw Zolkiewski captures Moscow.

• 1792 – Divorce is allowed in the Kingdom of France.

• 1793 – France’s Committee of Public Safety approves Captain Napoleon Bonaparte’s plan for the siege of Toulon (the first mention of Napoleon’s name at the national level).

• 1866 – Hanover and Frankfurt become part of the Kingdom of Prussia.

• 1870 – Italian unification ends.

• 1919 – Nestor Makhno and the UPR government entered into an agreement on a joint battle against Denikin.

• 1926 – the head of the American mafia syndicate, Al Capone, narrowly escaped death during a shooting at his office in Cicero (Illinois).

• 1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival opens.

• 1954 – A computer runs the first program in the first high-level programming language, Fortran.

• 1977 – Vietnam joins the UN.

• 1991 – the National Security Service of Ukraine (now the SBU) was created.

• 1992 – In a referendum, the majority of French citizens support the country’s entry into the European Union.

• 2003 – in a referendum in Latvia, citizens voted for the country to join the EU.

• 2008 – the first IMAX cinema opened in Ukraine.

Who was born on September 20

• 1977 – Valery Pereshkura, Ukrainian gymnast, silver medalist of the Olympic Games (2000)

• 1982 – Inna Osipenko-Radomskaya, Ukrainian kayaker, Olympic champion, four-time Olympic medalist.

• 1983 – Yulia Batenkova-Bauman, Ukrainian biathlete, skier, Paralympic medalist.

What is today’s name day? Vasily, Ivan, Illarion, Mikhail, Oleg, Alexander, Fedor, Tatyana.

Folk signs and traditions for September 20

• Cranes fly high – autumn will be wet and cold.

• East wind blowing – expect thunderstorms.

• The cones are open – there will be heating, if they are closed – it will cool.

• Cones grow high on conifers – winter will come late.

• Black clouds mean rain.

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