Today is Monday, October 7: the 281st day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The year will end in 85 days.
The sun will rise at 6:45 Moscow time, and at 17:51 it will go below the horizon. At 12:18 the luminary will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 11 hours 5 minutes, and darkness will last 12 hours 55 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 16 after Pentecost. No fast. Commemoration day of the Equal-to-the-Apostles Thekla of Iconium, the first martyr.
Name days: Abraham, Andrey, Anton, Vasily, Vitaly, Vladislav, Galaktion, David, Nicander, Pavel, Sergey, Spiridon, Stepan, Thekla.
Secular holidays
Today, Russia celebrates the Day of the Formation of the Staff Units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
On October 7, the world celebrates International Doctor's Day and Architecture Day.
Events of October 7
In 1949, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was formed.
In 1959, the Luna-3 spacecraft flew around the Moon and transmitted the first photographs of the far side of the satellite to Earth.
In 2001, the United States began a military operation in Afghanistan.
In 2023, the Palestinian radical movement Hamas attacked Israel, and an earthquake occurred in Herat (Afghanistan), killing more than 2.8 thousand people.
Who was born on October 7th
In 1885, physicist and Nobel Prize laureate Niels Bohr was born.
In 1952, Russian President Vladimir Putin was born.
In 1982, the singer Anastasia Stotskaya was born.
In 1983, figure skater Maxim Trankov was born.
Folk omens
Warm and sunny weather promises a mild winter.
An abundance of mushrooms in the forest foretells a harsh and snowy winter.
If migratory birds appear in the sky, it will soon get colder and rain will fall.
Author: Dmitry Bobrov
