Today is Tuesday, August 13: day 226 of the Gregorian year. The year will end in 140 days.
The sun will rise at 4:59 Moscow time, and at 20:12 it will go below the horizon. At 12:35 the luminary will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 15 hours 13 minutes, and darkness will last 8 hours 47 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 8 after Pentecost. No fast. Forefeast of the Procession of the Honorable Wood of the Life-Giving Cross of the Lord. Day of Remembrance of the Righteous Eudocimus the Cappadocian.
Name days: Anna, Anton, Arseniy, Vasily, Veniamin, Vladimir, Georgy, Evdokim, Elizaveta, Ivan, Joseph, Konstantin, Maxim, Nikolay, Sergey, Stepan, Yuri.
Secular holidays
On August 13, the world celebrates International Left-Handers Day.
Today Tunisia celebrates Women's Day, and the Central African Republic (CAR) celebrates Independence Day.
Events of August 13
In 1889, inventor William Gray patented the pay telephone.
In 1907, the first taxi was launched in New York.
In 1913, the first stainless steel was smelted in England.
In 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev signed a decree “On the restoration of the rights of all victims of political repressions of the 1920s–1950s.”
In 2020, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed an agreement to normalize relations with Israel.
Who was born on August 13
Film director Alfred Hitchcock was born in 1899.
In 1926, Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro was born.
In 1975, actor Casey Affleck, brother of Ben Affleck, was born.
In 1980, the singer Stas Piekha was born.
Folk omens
The coming days will be rainy if the ants have sealed the entrance to the anthill.
The bees have flown out of their hives – warm days and good weather will continue.
The wind got stronger on Evdokimov's day - there will be a lot of snow in winter.
Grass snakes bask in the sun – it’s going to rain.
The cobwebs are flying - warm weather will continue in the coming days.
There is fog above the forest – it’s time to go mushroom picking.
