Holidays on November 18, 2024: name days, signs

Today, November 18, is the Day of the Sergeant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. There are 43 days left before the New Year.

November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 43 days left before the end of the year.

What holidays are there in Ukraine and in the world?

• European Day for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse.

• Day of the Sergeant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

• Mickey Mouse Day.

• World Oyster Day.

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What events happened on November 18

• 1626 – In Rome, Pope Urban VIII consecrated St. Peter’s Cathedral, which is now the residence of all the Popes.

• 1654 – the defense of the Cossack fortress of Bush in Podolia from the troops of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth began.

• 1838 – Taras Shevchenko completed the first (lost) version of “Taras’ Night”, the last poem of “Kobzar”.

• 1883 – a unified system for determining time was introduced in the United States: before this, each city set its own time.

• 1918 – victory near Motovilovka of Sichovyi Riflemen division of Yevgeny Konovalets against detachments loyal to Hetman P. Skoropadsky.

• 1918 – the independence of the Republic of Latvia is declared. Kārlis Ulmanis became the first head of government.

• 1928 – The cartoon “Steamboat Willie” produced by the Walt Disney Company is released.

• 1935 – Warsaw trial of a group of OUN members begins.

• 1935 – The Freedom Monument is opened in Riga.

• 1978 – in the jungles of Guyana, about 1000 members of the Peoples Temple sect committed suicide.

• 1990 – Mstislav Skripnik arrived from the USA to Kyiv, where in the Cathedral of St. Sophia, he was installed as the Patriarch of the UAOC.

• 2005 – The US Senate repeals the Jackson-Veinik foreign trade restriction for Ukraine.

• 2007 – as a result of a methane explosion at the rental enterprise “Mine named AF Zasyadko” (Donetsk), 100 miners died (another died in the hospital).

Who was born on November 18

• 1886 – Ukrainian artist, master of painting and graphics Sofia Albinovskaya-Minkevich.

• 1913 – Georgy Mayboroda, Ukrainian composer, author of operas, symphonies and symphonic poems, songs and romances.

• 1921 – Ukrainian writer, candidate of philological sciences, laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine named. TG Shevchenko (1993) Dmitry Mishchenko.

What is today’s name day? Nikolai, Plato, Roman.

Folk signs and traditions for November 18

• There is light around the moon – for snowfall.

• There is a blizzard outside the window – there will be a lot of snow on Maslenitsa.

• The weather indicates what it will look like in the winter.

• Seeing a mosquito or fly means melting.

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