Today is Saturday, September 14: the 258th day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The year will end in 108 days.
The sun will rise at 6:01 Moscow time, and at 18:51 it will go below the horizon. At 12:26 the luminary will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 12 hours 50 minutes, and darkness will last 11 hours 10 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 12 after Pentecost. No fasting. Beginning of the indiction – the church new year.
September 14 is the day of remembrance of St. Simeon the Stylite and his mother Martha of Cappadocia.
Name days: Martha, Natalia, Semyon, Tatyana.
Secular holidays
Today the world celebrates First Aid Day.
September 14 marks the Day of Stavropol Krai.
Today Romania celebrates Engineer's Day.
Events of September 14
In 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte entered Moscow.
In 1867, the first volume of Karl Marx's Capital was published.
In 1954, at the Totsk test site (Orenburg region), exercises were conducted under conditions of a real nuclear explosion.
In 1960, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded.
In 1973, Kerch and Novorossiysk were awarded the title of Hero City.
Who was born on September 14
In 1932, announcer, People's Artist of the USSR Igor Kirillov was born.
In 1959, the writer and detective author Tatyana Polyakova was born.
In 1965, the former President of Russia, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev was born.
In 1969, comedian Sergei Drobotenko was born.
Folk omens
If it is warm on Semin's Day, then the winter will be mild.
A cloudy morning promises a rainy autumn.
The starlings and wild ducks have not flown away yet – expect a dry and long autumn season.
Author: Dmitry Bobrov
