What holiday is today: November 2, 2024 - events and signs of Artemyev's day

Today is Saturday, November 2: day 307 of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The year will end in 59 days.

The sun will rise at 7:39 Moscow time, and at 16:49 it will go below the horizon. At 12:14 the luminary will be at its zenith.

Daylight hours will last 9 hours 10 minutes, and darkness will last 14 hours 50 minutes.

Church holidays

Week 19 after Pentecost. Dimitrievskaya Parental Saturday. Commemoration of the departed. No fasting.

Day of Remembrance of the Great Martyr Artemius of Antioch.

Name days: Alexander, Artemy, Gerasim, German, Ivan, Irina, Zosima, Leonid, Matrona, Mikhail, Nikolay, Pavel, Peter.

Secular holidays

Today, the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists is being celebrated under the auspices of the UN.

Also, the world celebrates Men's Day on November 2.

Events of November 2

In 1914, the Russian Empire declared war on Turkey as part of World War I.

In 1976, Democrat Jimmy Carter won the US presidential election.

In 1994, an uprising began in Pakistan against the country's transformation into an Islamic state.

In 2004, George W. Bush was re-elected to a second term as president of the United States.

Who was born on November 2

In 1755, the French queen Marie Antoinette was born.

In 1974, Belarusian hockey player Ruslan Salei was born, who died in 2011 as a result of a plane crash with players from Yaroslavl's Lokomotiv.

In 1975, actress Elena Zakharova was born.

In 1981, figure skater Tatyana Totmianina was born.

Folk omens

A series of rainy or snowy days is approaching if the west wind blows.

If the first frost appears on the trees only by this day, then the next year will be a poor harvest.

The larch has already shed its needles – snow will fall soon.

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