Today is Thursday, August 29: day 242 of the Gregorian year. The year will end in 124 days.
The sun will rise at 5:30 Moscow time, and at 19:33 it will go below the horizon. At 12:31 the luminary will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 14 hours 3 minutes, and darkness will last 9 hours 57 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 10 after Pentecost. No fast. Afterfeast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos.
On August 29, the Church celebrates the transfer of the Holy Image (Ubrus) of the Lord Jesus Christ from Edessa to Constantinople. The popular name for the holiday is Nut Savior.
Name days: Akim, Alexander, Anna, Lavrentiy, Nikodim, Nil, Stepan, Yakov.
Secular holidays
The world celebrates the International Day against Nuclear Tests on August 29.
Events of August 29
In 1831, Michael Faraday successfully used the first electrical transformer.
In 1883, Canadian inventor Thomas Ahern presented the first electric stove.
In 1885, German designer Gottlieb Daimler received a patent for a motorcycle.
In 1982, scientists from Germany reported the discovery of the 109th chemical element of the periodic table – meitnerium.
Who was born on August 29
In 1632, the English philosopher John Locke was born.
In 1862, the writer and Nobel Prize winner Maurice Maeterlinck was born.
In 1958, Michael Jackson and singer Olga Zarubina were born.
In 1982, actress Marina Alexandrova was born.
Folk omens
If the cranes have already gathered to go south, then on October 14 (Pokrov), the first frost will hit.
Thunder on Nut Spas foretells a warm autumn.
If there are no ripples on the water bodies, then the autumn will be quiet, and the winter will have little snow.
Good weather promises a quick winter and an early spring.
On the night of August 29, if there are no bright stars in the sky, then clear and dry weather will set in.
Author: Dmitry Bobrov
