Today is International Mother Earth Day.
What a holiday today in Ukraine and in the world / UNIAN collage, photo ua.depositphotos.com
April 22, 2024 is the Day of the Flycatchers, the Day of the Old Programmer, the Day of Sources and Keys, and the Day of Spring Broodshafts. April 22 is the 112th day of the year (113th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 253 days left until the end of the year.
What holiday is April 22 in the world – a list
Today – April 22 – the holiday is celebrated by far more than one country. Each state celebrates its own celebration. Some of them are funny, others are serious. We suggest you familiarize yourself with several of them:
- Chewy Marmalade Day, April Showers Day, Oklahoma State Day – USA.
- Holocaust Remembrance Day – Serbia.
- Fighter Aviation Day – Brazil.
- Border Aviation Day – Georgia.
It is also important to remember what holiday today is in Ukraine – on April 22, in our country, as in the whole world, the International Mother Earth Day is celebrated.
Memorable events in history on April 22
- 1370 – the construction of the Bastille began.
- 1737 – the first metallurgical furnace in Canada was installed in Quebec.
- 1834 – the South Atlantic island of St. Helena is declared a British Royal Colony.
- 1838 – a steamship crossed the Atlantic Ocean for the first time without using sails; English passenger paddle steamer “Sirius” arrived in the harbor of New York.
- 1864 – The US Congress passes a law requiring the inscription “In God We Trust” to appear on all American banknotes.
- 1939 – Geoffrey Stephenson made the first flight across the English Channel in a Slingsby Gull glider.
- 1943 – Albert Hofmann makes the first report of the hallucinogenic properties of LSD.
- 1952 – 35 million Americans witnessed live coverage of a nuclear bomb test in Nevada.
- 1967 – the band Pink Floyd entered the English charts for the first time with the song “Arnold Layne”.
- 1969 – the first human eye transplant was performed in Houston.
- 1969 – John Winston Lennon officially changed his name to John Winston Ono Lennon.
- 1974 – a Pan Am Boeing 707-321C crashed in Bali, killing 107 people. At that time, it was the biggest air crash in Indonesia.
- 1991 – the Jewish cable TV channel “Shalom, America” began broadcasting in New York.
What a church holiday today
On April 22, the church holiday is celebrated both by Christians who switched to the OCU calendar and by those who wished to celebrate the festivities in the old style. In the first case, April 22 is the feast of the Icon of the Mother of God of Caesarea, the Day of Remembrance of the Holy Venerable Martyr Vadim, Archimandrite of Persia, and the Day of Remembrance of the Holy Martyr Eupsichius of Caesarea. In the second case, on April 22, the faithful celebrate the day of memory of Saint Theodore.
Folk omens on April 22 – what can and cannot be done
Today’s omens indicate that it is on April 22 that you can make fortune-telling and perform magical rituals with water. The folk method is to go to the spring, pray near the pond, and then ask: “To the living or to the dead?”, thinking about the right person. Depending on how the water will behave, you can understand the future state of health. Bubbling – wait for illness, calm – good health.
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Folk omens about the weather on April 22:
- dandelions bloom – spring will be warm and mild;
- strong wind and fog – expect a good harvest;
- blue clouds float across the sky – soon it will rain, but without cold weather.
On this date, our ancestors tried not to do anything with their hair, otherwise you can invite trouble. You should also not use other people’s towels – it brings you to tears. It is also undesirable to spill water, otherwise misfortune will await the family. Refrain from covering the table with a tablecloth with a hole – this is how you can invoke poverty.
