Today is Friday, August 23: day 236 of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The year will end in 130 days.
The sun will rise at 5:18 Moscow time, and will set at 19:48. At 12:33 the sun will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 14 hours 29 minutes, and darkness will last 9 hours 31 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 9 after Pentecost. Dormition Fast. Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Commemoration day of the holy martyr Lawrence, archdeacon, Sixtus II, Pope of Rome, Felicissimus and Agapitus, deacons, Martyr Romanus, of Rome.
Name days: Afanasy, Vyacheslav, Lavr, Lavrenty, Roman, Savva.
Secular holidays
Today, Russia celebrates the Day of the defeat of Nazi troops by Soviet troops in the Battle of Kursk.
Under the auspices of the UN, August 23 is celebrated as the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Slave Trade and its Abolition.
Today Belarus celebrates the Day of State Statistics Workers, and Armenia marks the Day of the Adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
Events of August 23
In 1914, Japan declared war on Germany and entered World War I on the side of the Entente.
In 1943, Kharkov was liberated from German occupation.
In 1991, the World Wide Web was founded. Users were given public access to the world's first web server.
In 2011, Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown in Libya.
In 2023, a plane carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin crashed near Tver.
Who was born on August 23
In 1951, the first president of Chechnya, Akhmat Kadyrov, was born.
In 1964, the singer Alena Apina was born.
In 1971, Russian politician Alexander Novak was born.
In 1977, actor Igor Petrenko was born.
Basketball player Kobe Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash in 2020, was born in 1978.
Folk omens
The water surface is smooth and without ripples – the autumn will be warm and long, and the winter mild.
If there are waves on the water, then autumn will be cold and damp.
September will be rainy if there are small ripples on the water.
An abundance of acorns on oak trees promises a rich harvest next year.
If there is already frost in the morning in the second half of August, it means that severe frosts will hit in winter.
