Holidays October 21, 2024: name days, signs

Today, October 21, 2024, is World Pain Day. There are 71 days left before the New Year.

October 21 is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 71 days left before the end of the year.

What holidays are there in Ukraine and in the world?

• World Iodine Deficiency Day.

• International Nacho Day.

• World Disease Day.

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What events happened on October 21

• 1056 – Deacon Gregory writes the first letter.

• 1520 – Ferdinand Magellan opens and passes through the strait between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, which is later named after him.

• 1596 – the Berestey Union was concluded, according to which the bishops of the Orthodox Church in the territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth recognized the authority of the Pope among themselves.

• 1805 – The Battle of Trafalgar, where the British fleet under the command of Admiral Nelson crushed the Franco-Spanish fleet.

• 1879 – American inventor Thomas Edison tests his first carbon filament incandescent lamp.

• 1897 – The Black Sea Shipyard began operating in Nikolaev.

• 1921 – Vasily (Lipkovsky) was appointed Metropolitan of the UAOC.

• 1944 – the crew of the Cuban ship Rubicon mysteriously disappears in the Bermuda Triangle.

• 1950 – The Geneva Conventions for the Protection of War Victims come into force.

• 1966 – the Aberfan disaster occurred in Wales – the tragic transfer of a pile of coal waste to a nearby village.

• 1991 – The first hot air balloon flight over Everest was made.

• 1993 – at the All-Ukrainian Orthodox Council, Vladimir Romanyuk became the Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus’-Ukraine.

• 1995 – The Local Council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate appointed Metropolitan of Kyiv Philaret (Denisenko) as the Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus’-Ukraine.

Who was born on October 21

• 1938 – Virko Baley, Ukrainian-American composer, conductor, musical figure.

• 1967 – Dmitry Gordon, Ukrainian journalist, interviewer, TV presenter, blogger, politician.

• 1975 – Andrey Sryubko, Ukrainian hockey player.

What are the name days today? Alexander, Alexey, Anatoly, Arkady, Vasily, Vladimir, Georgy, Demyan, Dmitry, Zakhar, Ivan, Konstantin, Nikolay, Sergey, Fedor, Yakov.

Folk signs and traditions for October 21

• The air is warm – wait for the thaw.

• Clear day – cold weather is coming very quickly.

• Smoke rises – to warm weather.

• The sun has a red color – the weather will be sunny but frosty.

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