Today is Sunday, August 4: the 217th day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The year will end in 149 days.
The sun will rise at 4:41 Moscow time, and at 20:31 it will go below the horizon. At 12:36 the luminary will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 15 hours 50 minutes, and darkness will last 8 hours 10 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 6 after Pentecost. No fast. Day of Remembrance of the Myrrh-Bearer, Equal-to-the-Apostles Mary Magdalene. Transfer of the relics of the holy martyr Phocas, Bishop of Sinope.
Name days: Alexey, Korney, Korniliy, Maria, Mikhail, Foka.
Secular holidays
On August 4, two international holidays are celebrated: Railway Workers' Day and Single Working Women's Day.
In Kazakhstan they celebrate Transport Workers Day, and in the USA they celebrate Coast Guard Day.
Events of August 4
In 1662, the so-called Copper Riot took place in Moscow.
In 1777, the first circus performance took place in Europe.
In 1914, Great Britain declared war on Germany as part of World War I.
In 1962, Nelson Mandela was sent to prison, where he spent 28 years.
In 2020, an explosion occurred in the port of Beirut, Lebanon, killing more than 200 people.
Who was born on August 4th
In 1901, jazz musician Louis Armstrong was born.
Barack Obama was born in 1961.
In 1965, the singer and poet Anastasia (Anastasia Mintskovskaya) was born.
Rock musician Gleb Samoilov was born in 1970.
Folk omens
Frogs are swimming in the water – dry weather will set in.
Strong thunder foretells hail.
It will rain if you can't see the spiders.
An abundance of slugs promises cloudy and damp weather.
If honey mushrooms appear at the beginning of August, there will be few mushrooms in the fall.
Fog in the morning foretells heat during the day.
