Today is Saturday, August 3: day 216 of the Gregorian year. The year will end in 150 days.
The sun will rise at 4:40 Moscow time, and at 20:33 it will go below the horizon. At 12:36 the luminary will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 15 hours 53 minutes, and darkness will last 8 hours 7 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 6 after Pentecost. No fast. Day of remembrance of the Prophet Ezekiel and the Venerable Simeon of Palestine and John, his fellow faster.
Also today the Church honors the memory of the Venerable Onuphrius the Silent and Onesimus the Recluse of the Caves in the Near Caves.
Name days: Anna, Georgy, Evgeny, Ivan, Petr, Semyon, Fedor.
Secular holidays
August 3rd is International Watermelon Day.
Niger celebrates Independence Day today. The African country gained independence from France in 1960.
Events of August 3
In 1778, the La Scala opera house opened in Milan.
In 1914, Germany declared war on France.
In 1980, the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games was held at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.
In 2012, swimmer Katie Ledecky won her first gold medal at the London Olympics at the age of 15.
Who was born on August 3
In 1905, radiochemist Boris Kurchatov was born.
In 1910, People's Artist of the RSFSR, actor Vaclav Dvorzhetsky was born.
In 1949, hockey player, 8-time world champion and two-time Olympic champion Valery Vasiliev was born.
In 1963, Metallica frontman James Hetfield was born.
In 1986, Belarusian biathlete, 4-time Olympic champion Darya Domracheva was born.
Folk omens
It got colder on the night of August 3 – there will be severe frosts in the winter.
A thunderstorm foretells a cloudy and damp autumn.
The winter will be warm if the magpies are silent on this day.
The beginning of August is warm and damp – there will be a lot of mushrooms in the forests.
