Holidays September 21
International Peace Day
Most people on the planet perceive the world as everyday reality. The streets are calm, children go to school. The priceless gift of peace can go unnoticed where social attitudes are vicious. However, there are many people for whom this gift is a dream come true. They live in an atmosphere of fear and instability. It is for these people that there is an international day of peace. In its 1982 resolution, the UN General Assembly proclaimed this holiday a day of universal non-violence and a ceasefire.
This holiday has covered many regions and countries, involving millions of people. He makes people not only think about the world, but also do something for him. The celebration of Peace Day is used by the UN to draw attention to the ongoing work in defense of peace, as well as to encourage understanding of contemporary problems of the world, the exchange of experience and information to achieve it.
Rationalizer and Inventor of Ukraine Day
This holiday is celebrated on the third Saturday of September. Rationalization and inventive activity in Ukraine is regulated by the Institute of Industrial Property - Ukrpatent. The right to obtain a patent belongs to the inventor or several inventors who jointly created the invention. If the invention was created in the course of performing official duties, the right to such an invention belongs to the employer of the inventor, and the inventor himself owns only copyright, which is an inalienable personal right.
According to the Constitution of Ukraine, every citizen has the right to the results of his own intellectual activity. There are undoubted world-class innovations in Ukraine, including Anov aircraft, Ponomarenko’s technology for stimulating the growth of agricultural plants, Adamenko’s nuclear technology, medical inventions - a method for treating blood vessels with the inoperable Brown method, as well as for fighting Zaviryukha cancer. The Rationalizer and Inventor Day unites people of different specialties and professions, and all of them are endowed with a sense of the new, the gift of creativity, the ability to go beyond stereotypes and expand the boundaries of the familiar.
Independence Day of Armenia
In 1991, the people of Armenia voted in a nationwide referendum to proclaim the country's independence from the Soviet Union, which the republic has been in since 1921. On this day, 99% of citizens with voting rights supported the initiative. Two days later, the Supreme Council of the Republic of Armenia acquired the status of an independent state. In connection with the collapse of the USSR, the formally independent republic became December 26.
The first President of independent Armenia was elected Levon Ter-Petrosyan in the autumn of 1991. In the same year, Armenia became a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, and in 1992 the country joined the UN. Armenia has been a full member of the European Council since 2001, and since 2002 - the World Trade Organization (WTO). Independence Day in Armenia is very colorful and wide. Independence is a victory that cannot be taken from the people of Armenia.
National calendar September 21
Malaya Purechistaya, Nativity of the Virgin, Opozhinki
The holiday was established by the Orthodox Church in the 4th century. According to legend, a righteous and pious married couple who had been childless for a long time lived in Nazareth. Saints Joachim and Anna prayed to God for the baby. They had a daughter, Mary, the blessed and purest. Earth and sky rejoiced at her birth. The Holy Church quite rightly calls Joachim and Anna the God-Fathers, because Jesus Christ was born from the Blessed Daughter of the Virgin Mary.
In Russia, the holiday was called Malaya Prechistaya, Oseniny, Opozhniki. Ozpozhinki - a harvest festival, was celebrated in Russia for a week - with songs, games, dances and feasts. Autumnfishes met near the water. In the early morning, women went out with bread to the shores of lakes and rivers. The eldest of the women held the loaf, and the young ones sang songs, glorifying the Virgin. After that, the bread was divided equally between all participants in the action, each woman took the piece home and fed it to the cattle.
On a clean visit to the newlyweds, their relatives came: to see how they live, to teach wisdom. The young housewife fed the guests dinner and gave parents round cakes, her husband had to show the household. This day was also called Pasikov or Lukov. In the gardens they continued to harvest onions, and in apiaries, bees were prepared for winter. On the equinox, the second meeting of autumn was celebrated. The weather on this day spoke of the weather throughout the fall.
Historical events of September 21
September 21, 859 - founded one of the oldest Russian cities - Veliky Novgorod, it was here that the birth of Russian statehood took place. Novgorod (the name has existed since 1999) is commonly called the "Father of Russian cities", currently its population is over two hundred thousand people.
September 21, 862 - this legendary date is considered the day of the formation of the Russian state, on this day the inhabitants of the Novgorod lands called upon the reign of the Varangian brothers Rurik, Truvor and Sineus. After the death of the brothers, Rurik became the sole ruler of the lands, from that moment began the legendary rule in Russia of the tsarist dynasty of Rurikovich.
September 21, 1962 - after a long absence, a talented conductor and pianist, eighty-year-old Russian composer Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky came to Russia with concerts. An outstanding figure of culture and art conducted in two Russian capitals - Moscow and St. Petersburg (at that time Leningrad). Stravinsky did not come home for forty-eight years.
September 21, 1973 - a higher school of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union (former) was created, representatives of the leadership of internal affairs bodies were trained at the educational institution.
September 21, 1993- President of Russia Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin signed a decree on the dissolution of the Supreme Council. A serious domestic political conflict of the early 90s led to a tense situation in the country. As a result of a violent coup, the Soviet governance model was overthrown by an armed uprising, which killed about one and a half hundred people, and about four hundred Russians were injured. The political power of President Boris Yeltsin, who became the main person of the country as a result of the All-Russian referendum of 1993, won, having forcibly gained the right to shape the future of Russia. There is still no unambiguous assessment of those important events, since the investigation in this case was terminated in February 1994.
Born on September 21
Vladimir Bolshakov (1934) - Russian and Soviet ecologist, as well as an academician of the RAS.
Soviet and Russian ecologist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Bolshakov is a specialist in population and evolutionary ecology, animal ecology. From 1959 to 1964 he worked at the Institute of Biology, and in 1976 transferred to the Institute of Ecology of Animals and Plants.
Bolshakov’s social activities are no less scientific. He was chairman of the Russian Committee "Man and the Biosphere" (UNESCO program), president of the Theriological Society of Russia, chairman of the Joint Council of Biological Sciences, now he is a member of the editorial boards of the scientific journals "Zoological Journal", "Science in Russia", as well as the editor-in-chief of the journal " Ecology".
Olga Ostroumova (1947) - Russian and Soviet film and theater actress, People's Artist of Russia.
Ostroumova is one of the most striking examples of Russian non-aggressive femininity and sexuality. After graduation, she was accepted into the Youth Theater as a full-fledged actress and played many roles there. As a student, she began acting in films. Today Olga Mikhailovna plays on stage and is one of the best actresses in the Mossovet Theater, continues to act in films, works and lives in Moscow.
Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1598) - Italian public reformer and preacher.
He taught in Bologna, traveled with sermons to various Lombard cities. In 1491, he was elected rector of the Monastery of San Marco, where he demonstrated independence by denying Lorenzo Medici a declaration of respect. Girolamo Savonarola achieved the adoption of the Republican constitution of the Venetian model, as well as new laws banning gambling, murder and sodomy. With these actions, he made enemies in Florence, who turned his father against him. In May 1497, Savonarola was excommunicated. Later, in 1498, he and his associates were captured and killed.
Name day September 21
Name day celebrate: George, Ivan
