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What holiday is today: August 21, 2024 - events and signs of Mironov's day
21.08.2024 00:01
Today is Wednesday, August 21: day 234 of the Gregorian year. The year will end in 132 days.
The sun will rise at 5:14 Moscow time, and will set at 19:53. At 12:34 the sun will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 14 hours 38 minutes, and darkness will last 9 hours 22 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 9 after Pentecost. Dormition Fast. Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Commemoration day of the confessor Emilian, Bishop of Cyzicus, and Saint Myron the Wonderworker, Bishop of Crete.
Name days: German, Grigory, Emelyan, Joseph, Leonid, Miron, Moses, Nikodim. Nikolay, Savva, Fyodor.
Secular holidays
Russia celebrates Officer's Day on August 21. The world marks the International Day of Remembrance and Commemoration of the Victims of Terrorism.
Events of August 21
In 1911, the famous painting "Mona Lisa" was stolen from the Louvre in Paris. It was found two years later in Italy. The thief explained his actions by the desire to restore "historical justice" and return the work of art to its homeland.
In 1968, troops from the Warsaw Pact countries were brought into Czechoslovakia.
In 1981, scientists first reported in the media about the threat of global warming.
In 1986, the USSR officially announced the cause of the Chernobyl disaster: the negligence of the nuclear power plant personnel.
Who was born on August 21
In 1871, the writer Leonid Andreev was born.
In 1973, Google founder Sergey Brin and boxer Nikolai Valuev were born.
In 1977, singer Anna Pletneva was born.
In 1986, track and field athlete and eight-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt was born.
Folk omens
There will be severe frosts in winter if there are a lot of lingonberries and blackberries in the forest.
Autumn will be warm if it is hot on Mironov's day.
If it rains, you shouldn't expect the weather to improve until Indian summer.
The rowan berries are ripe – frosts may strike as early as the end of August.
