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Holidays on December 16, 2024: name days, signs

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Today, December 16, 2024, is International Pinot Meunier Wine Day. There are 15 days left before the New Year.

December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 15 days left before the end of the year.

What holidays are there in Ukraine and in the world?

  • International Pinot Meunier Wine Day.

  • Silly Toy Day.

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What happened on December 16

  • 1431 – King Henry VI of England becomes king of France in Paris.

  • 1497 – Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first European to sail in the Indian Ocean.

  • 1631 – Vesuvius erupts violently.

  • 1637 – a battle took place between the rebels led by Pavel But (Pavlyuk) near Kumeyki and the army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

  • 1773 – Bostonians throw a cargo of tea from an English ship into the sea to protest British customs policies, leading to the American Revolutionary War.

  • 1809 – Napoleon divorced Empress Josephine of Boharna because she did not bear children.

  • 1899 – the Milan football club was founded in Italy, one of the most titled clubs in the history of world football.

  • 1970 – The Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft was adopted.

  • 1979 – for the first time a person broke the sound barrier while moving on the surface of the Earth (it was the American race car driver Stan Barrett).

  • 1991 – Turkey recognizes Ukraine’s independence.

  • 1996 – the first flight of the Ukrainian-made An-70 heavy military transport short take-off and landing aircraft took place.

  • 2014 – Russia broke a bilateral agreement with the United States dating back to 1991 on cooperation in the field of nuclear waste control.

Who was born on December 16

  • 1952 – Miroslav Mamchak, Ukrainian naval officer, public figure, publicist, journalist, researcher of the history of the Ukrainian fleet, head of the Ukrainian Navy television and radio company Briz (1994-2010).

  • 1958 – Yaroslav Muka, actor of the Lviv Drama Theater named after Maria Zankovetskaya, People’s Artist of Ukraine.

  • 1972 – Pavel Shkapenko, Ukrainian football player.

What are the name days today?: Arkady, Vladimir, Ilya, Makar, Nikolay, Alexander, Pavel, Peter, Semyon, Sofia.

Folk signs and traditions for December 16

  • Cold and bad weather – winter will be harsh.

  • Wind, heavy snow – the summer will be thin.

  • Frost on the street – it will be warm for the winter holidays.

  • There are frost patterns on the glass – this season will last another 20 days.

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