What a day today is in Ukraine and the world

September 26 -

European Day of Languages

.

This mass event is aimed at expanding intercultural understanding and mastering foreign languages.

It is celebrated in 45 countries of the world.

The holiday was declared with the support of the official bodies of the European Union in December 2001.

September 26 is also

World Contraception Day

.

The holiday was organized in 2007 at the initiative of international organizations and institutions dealing with the reproductive health of women and men.

Its main goal is to expand the information awareness of the population about various types of contraception.

And September 26 is

the International Day of Struggle for the Complete Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

.

It was created on the initiative of the UN General Assembly on December 5, 2013.

Its main goal is to draw attention to the problems associated with weapons of mass destruction, and also to ensure safety on the planet.

September 26 -

World Environmental Health Day

.

Started in Indonesia in 2011.

During the first celebration, students performed the hymn of the holiday.

Interestingly, they themselves wrote the words and music for it.

A year later, this event became popular in many countries of the world.

On this day, people go out to clean squares and parks.

September 26 is also

the gramophone's birthday

.

In 1877, Thomas Edison invented a device capable of recording sound on a record - a photographer.

And on September 26 of the same year, another scientist, Emil Berliner, patented a gramophone that helped reproduce pure sound and had a fairly simple mechanism.

What a church holiday today, September 26

September 26 - the day of memory of the holy martyr Cornilius / Photo: commons.wikimedia.org

September 26 in the church calendar is

the day of memory of the holy martyr Cornilius

.

He was born in the 1st century in Thracian Italy (now Romania).

He was a pagan, but distinguished himself by good deeds and piety.

Later, Cornelius became a centurion in the Roman army and settled in Caesarea Palestine.

One day he was praying in his house, when an angel appeared to him and said: "Your prayers and your alms before God have been remembered. Now go to Joppa people, and call Simon, who is called Peter. He is staying with a tanner Simon , who has a home by the sea. He will tell you what you should do."

Cornelius obeyed the angel's command, and later the apostle Peter came to him, told him about Christ and baptized him.

Then he went to the city of Skepsi, where idolatry was especially valued.

There Saint Cornelius was tied up and thrown into prison.

At night, the wife and son of the local prince are under the ruins of a pagan temple and praise the Lord.

Then the ruler believed in Christ, went to Cornelius and asked to free them.

Name day: what to name a child born on September 26

What are the names today:

Lukyan, Valerian, Cornelius, Ilya, Peter, Leontius, Julian.

The talisman of a person born on September 26 is an

aventurine

.

In Ancient China and Egypt, this stone was used by nobles to decorate houses.

And only emperors had the right to wear jewelry with aventurine.

It is believed that aventurine is an amulet for a couple in love.

Born on this day:

  • 1832 — Ukrainian composer Petro Sokalskyi;

  • 1885 — Ukrainian writer Anyshchenko Kalistrat Romanovych;

  • 1890 — Ukrainian military man and politician Ivan Poltavets-Ostryanitsa;

  • 1893 — Ukrainian poet-biker Mykyta Godovanets;

  • 1919 — actor of the Lviv Theater named after Maria Zankovetska, People's Artist of Ukraine Oleksandr Grynko;

  • 1921 — Ukrainian bibliographer and literary critic Fedir Sarana;

  • 1936 — Ukrainian human rights defender and dissident Yevhen Proniuk;

  • 1940 — Ukrainian Orientalist-Indologist, writer, translator Stepan Nalivayko;

  • 1954 — Ukrainian poet, translator, critic, art critic Oleksandr Butsenko;

  • 1965 — Ukrainian statesman and politician, entrepreneur, the fifth President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko;

  • 1989 - Ukrainian wrestler Yulia Ostapchuk.

What can not be done on this day

  • You can't tell fortunes in front of a mirror, because something bad will happen.

  • It is not worth courting and getting married on this day, because the marriage will be unhappy.

  • It is better not to clean the house.

Folk signs and traditions for September 26

Among our ancestors there were many interesting signs to this day: 

  • looked at what day it is today: if it rains, then the harvest will be good;

  • all the rooks have already flown away for the winter, wait for the snow;

  • chickens begin to molt - it will be a warm winter.

In the people, September 26 was called Cornyli day, Cornyliy.

On this day, the peasants were already removing the last vegetables from the gardens - potatoes, beets, horseradish, carrots.

And they also believed that a person born on September 26 will live long.

Weather for today, September 26

Today, September 26, it is clear in Kyiv, without precipitation.

The weather is gloomy in Lviv, but no precipitation is expected.

It is cloudy in Kharkiv, without precipitation.

It is cloudy with clearings in Odesa, no precipitation is expected.

The air temperature in Kyiv is +18 during the day and +8 at night.

In Lviv it is +18 during the day and +9 at night.

In Kharkiv +18 during the day and +8 at night.

In Odesa it is +21 during the day and +12 at night.

Commemorative dates of September 26

Calendar of important events in Ukraine and the world for September 26:

  • 1371 — in a battle in the valley of the Maritsa River, the united Serbian-Bulgarian-Wallachian-Hungarian-Croatian troops were defeated by the Ottomans;

  • 1580 - English pirate Francis Drake completes the world's second circumnavigation;

  • 1687 - as a result of the shelling of Athens by the Venetian army, the Parthenon is partially destroyed;

  • 1815 - Duke Richelieu becomes Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of France;

  • 1913 - the trial in the Baylis case begins in Kyiv;

  • 1919 — Nestor Makhn's troops break through the front of the Volunteer Army and carry out a daring raid in the direction of Berdyansk and Taganrog;

  • 1930 - the Polish authorities forbid the activities of Plast;

  • 1951 - the Bundestag declares for the payment of post-war reparations to Jews;

  • 1960 — Kennedy and Nixon hold the first televised debate in the history of US presidential elections;

  • 1961 - Roy Orbison leads the US charts for three weeks with the song "Oh, Pretty Woman";

  • 1962 - the Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed;

  • 1969 - the last studio album of the group "Beatles" - "Abbey Road" is released;

  • 1991 — consular relations between Ukraine and Austria are established;

  • 1995 — Ukraine is admitted to the Council of Europe;

  • 2001 is the birthday of Polish Wikipedia;

  • 2012 — murder in the Karavan shopping center.

    Suspect Yaroslav Mazurok kills three security guards and injures one shopping center employee;

  • 2021 — in a boxing confrontation between the Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk and the British Anthony Joshua, Usyk wins and becomes the WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO champion and returns all championship belts to Ukraine.