Holidays January 21, 2025: what not to do on this day

Today, January 21, 2025, is International Hug Day. There are 344 days until the New Year.

January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 344 days left until the end of the year (345 days in leap years).

What holidays are there in Ukraine and in the world?

• International Hug Day.

• International Children’s Day.

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What happened on January 21

• 1506 – by order of Pope Julius II, the Vatican army was formed – the Swiss Guard.

• 1542 – The English Parliament condemns Henry VIII’s wife, Catherine Howard, for high treason.

• 1790 – the guillotine is created.

• 1793 – Louis XVI, King of France, is guillotined in the Place de la Revolution.

• 1796 – Edward Jenner discovers a method of vaccination against smallpox.

• 1846 – The first issue of the English newspaper London Daily News is published.

• 1899 – The German company Adam Opel, founded by the Opel brothers to produce sewing machines, begins producing cars.

• 1900 – The first Canadian soldiers are sent to the Boer War.

• 1911 – the first car rally in Monte Carlo.

• 1919 – at the congress of Hungarian Rusyns in Khust, delegates from Transcarpathia decided to reunite Transcarpathian Ukraine with Cathedral Ukraine.

• 1922 – The first slalom ski competitions took place in the Swiss town of Mürren.

• 1934 – The Kharkov Turbogenerator Plant was put into operation.

• 1947 – after the resignation of James Byrnes, General George Marshall becomes the new US Secretary of State, which means a transition from a policy of “tolerance” to a policy of “containment” of communism.

• 1952 – Italian scientists announce that the Leaning Tower of Pisa is expected to collapse in 2151.

• 1959 – the European Court of Human Rights was formed, its purpose is to monitor compliance with the rights and freedoms of people and citizens as stated in the European Convention on Human Rights.

• 1964 – There was an attempted coup in the Republic of China.

• 1968 – one of the largest battles of the Vietnam War took place between the People’s Army of Vietnam and the US Marine Corps for the Khe Sanh military base.

• 1978 – Oleksa Girnyk sets herself on fire at Shevchenko’s grave in protest against Russification.

• 1989 – 120-year-old American Augusta Bunge became a grandmother-great-grandmother (the largest number of generations living simultaneously in one family).

• 1990 – about three million Ukrainians connect, connecting Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv and Kyiv on the eve of Zluki.

• 1992 – Ukraine establishes diplomatic relations with Mongolia.

• 2001 – Paul McCartney becomes the first musician whose total net worth exceeds one billion dollars.

Who was born on January 21

• 1881 – poet, author of the words of the song-hymn “Oy u luzi chervona viburnum” Stepan Charnetsky.

• 1992 – officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war, who died during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Hero of Ukraine Oleg Adamovsky.

What is today’s name day?: Evgeniy, Ivan, Ilya, Maxim, Anastasia, Anna.

What not to do on January 21

• You must not fight, slander, or conflict.

• You cannot borrow or lend money.

• Do not leave the house before dawn.

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