Today is Wednesday, December 11: day 346 of the Gregorian year. The year ends in 20 days.
The sun will rise at 8:50 Moscow time, and at 15:57 it will go below the horizon. At 12:24 the luminary will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 7 hours 7 minutes, and darkness will last 16 hours 53 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 25 after Pentecost. Nativity Fast. Commemoration Day of the Holy Martyr and Confessor Stephen the New and Martyr Irenarchus of Sebaste and the Holy Seven Women.
Name days: Alexey, Anna, Vasily, Peter, Stepan, Andrey, Ivan, Timofey, Nikolay, Grigory.
Secular holidays
December 11 is the Day of Remembrance of the Crimean Jews and Crimean Krymchaks – victims of Nazism.
Today the world celebrates International Mountain Day and Tango Day.
Events of December 11
In 1941, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States.
In 1946, UNICEF was established under the UN.
In 1981, boxer Muhammad Ali had his final fight.
In 1994, the First Chechen War began.
Who was born on December 11th
In 1864, the French writer Maurice Leblanc was born.
In 1918, writer, public figure, and Nobel Prize laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn was born.
In 1922, sports commentator and People's Artist of the RSFSR Nikolai Ozerov was born.
In 1929, the actor and People's Artist of Russia Mikhail Svetin was born.
In 1949, People's Artist of Russia, actor Boris Shcherbakov was born.
Folk omens
Clear and frosty weather promises cold and snow in the second half of December.
If the wind blows from the southwest, a mild winter with frequent thaws is expected.
If there is no frost on this day, then spring will come early.
Author: Dmitry Bobrov
