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Holidays on December 24, 2024: name days, signs

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Today, December 24, is the Day of Workers of Archival Institutions of Ukraine. There are 7 days left before the New Year.

December 24 is the 358th day of the year (359th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 7 days left before the end of the year.

What holidays are there in Ukraine and in the world?

  • Archival Workers’ Day.

What happened on December 24

  • 1518 – King Sigismund I allowed Prince Vasily Sangushka to build a city from the village of Kovle, giving him Magdeburg rights.

  • 1624 – Hetman Mikhail Doroshenko concludes an interstate agreement on mutual aid between Military Zaporozhye and Crimean Khanates.

  • 1814 – In Ghent (now Belgium), Great Britain and the United States sign a treaty ending the Anglo-American War.

  • 1851 – 35 thousand books and many unique documents were burned during a fire at the Library of Congress.

  • 1871 – The premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Aida”, written to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal, takes place in Cairo.

  • 1903 – The first registration number for a car was issued in Great Britain – Duke Russell, brother of the philosopher Bertrand Russell, received a plate with the number A1.

  • 1908 – The first international air show opens in Paris.

  • 1914 – A German plane drops a bomb on the English city of Dover, making the first aerial bombing in history.

  • 1917 – in Kharkov, captured by the Russian Bolsheviks, opened the All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets, ending on December 25 with the proclamation of the so-called. Ukrainian People’s Republic of Soviets – as opposed to the UPR which has its capital in Kyiv.

  • 1920 – on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera (New York), the outstanding Italian singer Enrico Caruso plays the last role of his career – Eleazar.

  • 1982 – a prototype of the world’s largest serial cargo aircraft, the An-124 Ruslan, first flew.

  • 1997 – the first concert of the Mandry group took place;

  • 2004 – the Ukrainian satellite Sich-1M was launched into orbit.

Who was born on December 24

  • 1974 – Alexey Senyuk, chief sergeant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war. Hero of Ukraine.

  • 1940 – Grigory Kriss, Ukrainian fencer, Olympic champion in individual epee fencing competitions, two-time silver medalist of the ’68 Olympics.

What is today’s name day? Nikolai, Sergei, Evgenia, Claudia.

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Folk signs and traditions for December 24

  • Starry sky – for a big harvest.

  • Melt – the harvest will be poor.

  • A cloudless sky means there will be plenty of mushrooms next year.

  • Blizzard – there will be a lot of honey.

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