Today is Friday, August 30: the 243rd day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The year will end in 123 days.
The sun will rise at 5:32 Moscow time, and will set at 19:31. At 12:31 the sun will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 13 hours 58 minutes, and darkness will last 10 hours 2 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 10 after Pentecost. Fast day. Afterfeast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos.
On August 30, Orthodox believers honor the memory of the holy martyr Myron of Cyzicus, priest, and the Venerable Pimen of Ugresh, archimandrite.
Name days: Alexey, Dmitry, Ilya, Miron, Pavel, Pimen, Ulyana, Philip.
Secular holidays
Today is the Day of the Republic of Tatarstan.
The world celebrates the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances and Whale Shark Day.
Kazakhstan celebrates Constitution Day, and Kyrgyzstan celebrates Archivist Day.
Events of August 30
In 1700, Russia entered the Northern War on the side of the Northern Union.
In 1901, the electric vacuum cleaner was patented.
In 1918, Fanny Kaplan attempted to assassinate Vladimir Lenin.
In 1963, a hotline was established between the USSR and the USA to reduce the risk of nuclear war.
In 1973, elephant hunting was banned in Kenya.
Who was born on August 30
In 1870, one of the leaders of the White movement, Lavr Kornilov, was born.
In 1871, physicist and Nobel Prize winner Ernest Rutherford was born.
In 1954, the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, was born.
In 1972, actress and model Cameron Diaz was born.
In 1988, actor Tikhon Zhiznevsky was born.
Folk omens
The sky is covered with clouds – the bad weather will last for a long time.
There will still be warm days if there is a “golden dawn” in the sky in the evening.
A red dawn promises strong winds.
Good weather on Mironov's Day foretells an early spring.
