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What holiday is today: August 20, 2024 - events and signs of Mitrofanov day
20.08.2024 00:01
Today is Tuesday, August 20: the 233rd day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The year will end in 133 days.
The sun will rise at 5:12 Moscow time, and will set at 19:55. At 12:34 the sun will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 14 hours 43 minutes, and darkness will last 9 hours 17 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 9 after Pentecost. Dormition Fast. Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Commemoration day of the holy martyr Dometius the Persian, hierodeacon, and his two disciples.
On August 20, Orthodox believers celebrate the day of the discovery of the relics of Saint Mitrofan, in schema Macarius, Bishop of Voronezh.
Name days: Alexander, Alexey, Anton, Afanasy, Vasily, Dmitry, Ivan, Mitrofan, Narkiss, Mikhail, Nikanor, Peter, Feodosiy.
Secular holidays
Today the world celebrates Laziness Day and Mosquito Day.
Morocco celebrates the Day of the Revolution of the King and the People today, while Uzbekistan celebrates the Day of the Entrepreneur.
Events of August 20
In 1912, Thomas Edison patented the electric battery.
In 1953, the USSR announced the successful testing of a hydrogen bomb.
The Iran-Iraq War ended in 1988.
In 1991, large-scale protest rallies against the State Emergency Committee took place in Leningrad and Moscow.
Who was born on August 20
In 1827, the composer Joseph Strauss was born.
In 1890, the writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born.
In 1937, director Andrei Konchalovsky was born.
In 1971, singer Stas Kostyushkin was born.
Folk omens
The storks are already preparing to fly away – autumn will be early and cold.
Red sunrise means it will rain during the day.
The spiders are hiding - the weather will get worse.
Roosters crow in unison in the morning - hot weather will set in during the day.
