Today is Monday, August 12: the 225th day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The year will end in 141 days.
The sun will rise at 4:57 Moscow time, and at 20:14 it will go below the horizon. At 12:35 the luminary will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 15 hours 17 minutes, and darkness will last 8 hours 43 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 8 after Pentecost. No fast. Commemoration day of the 70 apostles Silas, Silouan, Crescentus, Epenetus and Andronicus.
Name days: Agnia, Anatoly, Angelina, Apollon, Valentin, German, Ivan, Luka, Maxim, Pavel.
Secular holidays
Russia celebrates Air Force Day on August 12.
The world celebrates International Youth Day today.
Today Kyrgyzstan celebrates the Day of the Penitentiary System Employee, and in Thailand – Mother’s Day.
Events of August 12
In 1912, the Aeronautical Unit was created in the Russian Armed Forces.
In 1953, the world's first hydrogen bomb was successfully tested at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site.
In 2000, the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk sank during exercises in the Barents Sea.
In 2013, a single emergency number, “112,” began operating throughout Russia.
Who was born on August 12
In 1681, the navigator Vitus Bering, who discovered the Bering Strait, was born.
In 1887, physicist Erwin Schrödinger was born.
In 1904, Tsarevich Alexei, the son of Emperor Nicholas II, was born.
In 1930, billionaire George Soros was born.
In 1954, former President of France François Hollande was born.
Folk omens
If it rains, the cloudy and damp weather will last for several days.
Dry weather will set in if it gets colder but there is no precipitation.
The heat and stuffiness promise heavy rain.
An abundance of rowan berries foretells an early and rainy autumn and a harsh winter.
There are a lot of cobwebs in the air – warm days are still here.
