Today is Tuesday, October 8: the 282nd day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The year will end in 84 days.
The sun will rise at 6:47 Moscow time, and at 17:48 it will go below the horizon. At 12:18 the luminary will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 11 hours 1 minute, and darkness will last 12 hours 59 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 16 after Pentecost. No fast. Commemoration day of Saint Euphrosyne of Alexandria. Death of Saint Sergius, Abbot of Radonezh, miracle worker of all Russia.
Name days: Afanasy, German, Evgeny, Euphrosyne, Maxim, Nikolay, Pavel, Paphnuty, Prokhor, Roman, Sergey, Feodosiy.
Secular holidays
Today, Russia celebrates the Day of the Commander of a Surface, Submarine, and Aircraft of the Navy.
Armenia celebrates Tanker's Day on October 8, and Namibia celebrates Tree Planting Day.
Events of October 8
In 1912, Montenegro declared war on Turkey. This marked the beginning of the First Balkan War.
In 1967, the UK was the first to use sniffer tubes to determine whether a driver was drunk.
In 1970, Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
In 2023, an explosion occurred on the Balticconnector gas pipeline.
Who was born on October 8th
In 1892, the poetess Marina Tsvetaeva was born.
In 1931, the writer Yulian Semyonov was born.
In 1936, actor and People's Artist of the RSFSR Leonid Kuravlev was born.
In 1970, actor Matt Damon was born.
Folk omens
On October 8, good weather set in and will continue to do so for another three weeks.
The wind blows from the north – the winter will be cold. If from the south, the winter months will be warm.
The birch leaves have not fallen yet – the warm weather will last a long time.
Author: Dmitry Bobrov
