Today is Sunday, August 18: day 231 of the Gregorian year. The year will end in 135 days.
The sun will rise at 5:08 Moscow time, and at 20:00 it will go below the horizon. At 12:34 the luminary will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 14 hours 51 minutes, and darkness will last 9 hours 9 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 8 after Pentecost. Dormition Fast. Forefeast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Today, Orthodox believers honor the memory of the martyr Eusignius of Antioch.
Name days: Daria, Evdokia, Efim, Ivan, Christina, Maximilian, Maria, Nonna, Simon, Christina.
Secular holidays
Today Russia celebrates Air Force Day and Geographer Day.
Belarus celebrates Air Force Day on August 18, and Kazakhstan celebrates Border Troops Day.
Tajikistan celebrates Medical Workers Day today, while Thailand celebrates National Science Day.
Events of August 18
In 1782, the Bronze Horseman monument to Peter I was unveiled in St. Petersburg.
In 1845 the Russian Geographical Society was founded.
In 1968, the leadership of the Warsaw Pact countries approved the introduction of troops into Czechoslovakia.
In 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev was arrested in Crimea.
Who was born on August 18
In 1830, the Emperor of Austria-Hungary Franz Joseph I, who started the First World War, was born.
In 1933, director Roman Polanski was born.
Actor Patrick Swayze was born in 1952.
In 1969, actor Edward Norton was born.
Folk omens
If the echo carries far in the evening, then hot weather will persist in the coming days.
Seagulls splash in the water - it will rain.
It's gotten colder, but the frogs are croaking, which means it will soon warm up again.
If many earthworms crawl to the surface, then cloudy and damp weather will set in.
