Holidays on October 18, 2024: name days, signs

Today, October 18, 2024, is International Women’s Day. There are 74 days left before the New Year.

October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 74 days left before the end of the year.

What holidays are there in Ukraine and in the world?

• European Day against Trafficking in Human Beings.

• European Paper Bag Day.

• International Menopause Day.

• International Women’s Day.

• A day without a beard.

• World Guitar Day.

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What events happened on October 18

• 1009 – The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah.

• 1016 – The Danes defeat the Saxons at the Battle of Ashingdon.

• 1081 – The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of Dyrrachium.

• 1210 – Pope Innocent III deposes German ruler Otto IV.

• 1239 – the hordes of Khan Batu captured the city of Chernigov.

• 1356 – the Basel earthquake occurred, the most important historical and seismological event north of the Alps, as a result of which the city of Basel, Switzerland, was destroyed.

• 1386 – The University of Heidelberg opens.

• 1596 – signed the Berestey Union, announcing the accession of a number of dioceses of the Orthodox Kyiv Metropolis, headed by the Metropolitan of Kyiv, Galicia and All Rus’ Mikhail Rogoza, to the Apostolic Capital under the conditions of subordination of Orthodox. to the Pope.

• 1648 – The first labor union in the United States is organized in Boston.

• 1667 – The Dutch found Brükelen in America.

• 1672 – Buchach peace treaty between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire.

• 1748 – the establishment of the second Peace of Aachen, which marked the end of the War of the Austrian Succession.

• 1851 – Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick is published for the first time in London.

• 1892 – The first commercial long-distance telephone line opens (Chicago – New York).

• 1893 – Sergei Rachmaninov performed his first opera “Aleko” at the Kiev Opera House.

• 1896 – The first comic strips appear in the New York Journal.

• 1898 – The United States annexes Puerto Rico.

• 1914 – The Schoenstatt movement is founded in the German Empire.

• 1918 – in Lvov, at a meeting of Ukrainian representatives of the Austrian State Council and members of the Chamber of Lords, Ukrainian members of the Galician and Bukovinian Sejms, the Ukrainian National Council was formed, which led the Ukrainian national movement in Austro -Hungarian. Empire.

• 1918 – The Czechoslovak Republic is proclaimed.

• 1922 – The British Broadcasting Company is founded by a consortium to create a national network of radio transmitters for national broadcasting in Britain.

• 1954 – Texas Instruments unveils the first transistor radio.

• 1955 – The Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station was put into operation.

• 1994 – The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine lifted the ban on the Communist Party.

• 1995 – Ukraine joins the Council of Europe.

• 2007 – bombing in Karachi: the attack took place on the motorcade of the former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, 139 people died, and more than 450 people were injured.

Who was born on October 18

• 1946 – Bohdan Skrobut, Ukrainian poet, researcher of the Holodomor in Ukraine in 1932-33, political and public figure, liquidator of the Chernobyl accident, political prisoner of the USSR.

• 1987 – Olesya Povkh, Ukrainian athlete, Olympic bronze medalist.

Whose birthday is today?: Andrey, Gavrilo, David, Joseph, Luka, Nikolay, Semyon, Sergey, Fedor, Elizaveta, Zlata.

Folk signs and traditions for October 18

• The weather changes a lot during the day – this will be the case throughout October.

• Mosquitoes appeared in the house – expect a mild winter, no frost.

• The moon is bright – for calm and clear weather.

• No wind – it will get cold soon.

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