Today, January 6, 2025, is World War Orphans Day. There are 359 days until the New Year.
January 6 is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 359 days left until the end of the year (360 days in a leap year).
What holidays are there in Ukraine and in the world?
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Hug day.
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World War Orphans Day.
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Baptism
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What happened on January 6
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1579 – The Union of Arras is concluded, the beginning of the unification process of the Netherlands.
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1681 – the first description of a boxing match taking place in the Kingdom of England between the butler and the executioner of the Duke of Albemarle.
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1709 – the regiments of Charles XII and Ivan Mazepa begin the attack on Veprik.
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1838 – in the city of Morristown (New Jersey, USA) in the workshops of the Speedwell iron foundry, Alfred Whale and Samuel Morse demonstrated their first telegraph.
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1846 – in Pereyaslav, on the estate of his friend Andrei Kozachkovsky, Taras Shevchenko wrote his famous “Zapovit”.
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1870 – The Vienna Philharmonic opens.
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1912 – Alfred Wegener introduced the drift hypothesis.
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1928 – The River Thames overflows its banks and floods parts of London.
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1928 – for the first time in the history of multinational European states, an electoral bloc of national minorities was formed in Poland – representatives of Ukrainian, Belarusian, German and Jewish national parties.
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1929 – the dictatorship of Alexander I Karageorgievich is established in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
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1939 – German physicists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann report the discovery of a method for the fission of uranium nuclei under the influence of neutrons.
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1962 – The International Glaciological Society is founded.
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1978 – The United States Government returned to Hungary one of its relics – the crown of St. Stephen, who has been kept in the United States since World War II.
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1992 – Ukraine resumes diplomatic relations with Argentina.
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2015 – Lithuania stopped broadcasting on its territory the Russian state television channels RTR Planeta, RenTV and NTV-Mir – for distorting information about events in Ukraine.
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2019 – The Orthodox Church of Ukraine accepts a tomos of autocephaly.
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2021 – the seizure of the US Capitol by supporters of the lost presidential election, Donald Trump, and the QAnon conspiracy theory.
Who was born on January 6
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1993 – Oleg Dovgy, officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war. Hero of Ukraine.
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1939 – Ukrainian football player and coach Valery Lobanovsky.
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1972 – Ukrainian football player, defender of the Ukrainian national team and club “Tavriya”, “Dynamo” (Kyiv), nine-time champion of Ukraine, five-time winner of the Ukrainian Cup, semi-finalist of the 1999 Champions League Alexander Golovko .
What not to do on January 6
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It is forbidden to sit at the festive table in dirty clothes.
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You cannot curse, destroy, or fight.
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Do not rinse clothes or wash clothes in water.
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