Holidays
This is reported by Rivne24
Today, September 13, several important holidays are celebrated in Ukraine:
- Physical Culture and Sports Day
- Ukrainian Cinema Day
- Ukrainian Borscht Day
- World First Aid Day
- World Sepsis Day
- International Positive Thinking Day
- International Day of Wills
- International Chocolate Day
- Hairdresser’s Day
- Birthday of Penicillin
Name Days: Valerian, Ilya, Leontiy, Mykola, Oleksandr, Petro
Folk Signs
- If it rains — there will be no more rain this year;
- When the rooks fly away — winter will come early;
- Red moon — expect strong winds.
Events
- 1776 — the city of Dnipro was founded.
- 1788 — New York was declared the capital of the USA.
- 1848 — the Department of Ukrainian Language was established at Lviv University.
- 1898 — American Hannibal Goodwin patented celluloid photographic film.
- 1902 — in Great Britain, fingerprints from the crime scene were used for the first time as evidence of a suspect’s guilt.
- 1989 — the first cases of AIDS were discovered in Ukraine.