Today is Sunday, August 25: day 238 of the Gregorian year. The year will end in 128 days.
The sun will rise at 5:22 Moscow time, and will set at 19:43. At 12:33 the sun will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 14 hours 21 minutes, and darkness will last 9 hours 39 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 9 after Pentecost. Dormition Fast. Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Day of Remembrance of the Martyrs Photius and Anicetus and many with them.
Name days: Alexander, Alexey, Anton, Arkady, Varlaam, Vasily, Vissarion, Vyacheslav, German, Dmitry, Efim, Ivan, Ilya, Leonid, Matvey, Mikhail, Nikolay, Peter, Savva, Sergey, Stepan, Fedor, Photius, Yakov.
Secular holidays
Today the world celebrates Miner's Day, as well as Kiss and Make Up Day.
Uruguay celebrates Independence Day on August 25, while Brazil celebrates Soldier's Day.
Events of August 25
In 1609, Galileo Galilei presented a new device – a telescope.
In 1944, Paris was liberated from German occupation.
In 1973, the first image taken using a tomograph was obtained.
In 1989, the Voyager space probe (USA) transmitted images of Neptune to Earth.
In 1990, Abkhazia declared independence from Georgia.
Who was born on August 25
In 1530, Tsar Ivan the Terrible was born.
In 1912, the last leader of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), Erich Honecker, was born.
In 1918, engineer Alexander Ganichev was born, who created the Grad, Uragan, and Smerch MLRS.
In 1930, director Georgy Danelia and actor Sean Connery were born.
In 1942, actress and People's Artist of Russia Margarita Terekhova was born.
In 1958, animator Tim Burton was born.
Folk omens
Rain on this day promises a fleeting Indian summer.
If the weather is sunny and warm, you will be able to collect a lot of porcini mushrooms.
An abundance of dew in the morning foretells dry and clear weather during the day.
The weather will get worse if the frogs croak actively.
Author: Dmitry Bobrov
