Today is Sunday, October 13: the 287th day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The year will end in 79 days.
The sun will rise at 6:57 Moscow time, and at 17:36 it will go below the horizon. At 12:16 the luminary will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 10 hours 38 minutes, and darkness will last 13 hours 22 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 16 after Pentecost. No fast. Commemoration day of the holy martyr Gregory, bishop, enlightener of Great Armenia, Venerable Gregory of Pelshem, Vologda miracle worker and Saint Michael, the first Metropolitan of Kyiv.
Name days: Alexander, Alexandra, Alexey, Apollinaria, Vasily, Vyacheslav, Grigory, Leonid, Matvey, Mikhail, Peter, Prokopy, Seraphim, Semyon.
Secular holidays
In Russia, October 13 is the Day of Agricultural and Processing Industry Workers, as well as the Day of Infopreneur.
Today, the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction is celebrated under the auspices of the UN.
Events of October 13
In 1492, Christopher Columbus first landed on an island in the New World.
In 1884, Greenwich was established as the location of the prime meridian.
In 1944, Soviet troops entered Riga.
In 1972, there were two air crashes. An Il-62 crashed near Moscow. 174 people died. An FH-227 plane carrying members of the Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the Andes in Argentina. 16 people survived in the mountains for more than 70 days. 29 people died.
In 1973, a Tu-104 crashed near Moscow. 122 people died.
Who was born on October 13
In 1917, Soviet military leader and Hero of the Soviet Union Vadim Matrosov was born.
In 1921, the French actor and singer Yves Montand was born.
In 1925, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was born.
In 1926, designer Gleb Maksimov was born, who built the first artificial Earth satellite.
In 1934, actor and Honored Artist of the RSFSR Savely Kramarov was born.
Folk omens
A warm autumn and late winter are expected if there are a lot of cobwebs in the forest on this day.
If it snowed on this day, they expected a long and very cold winter.
If the wind changes direction several times a day, then the weather will be changeable in the near future.
Author: Dmitry Bobrov
