Today is Thursday, August 8: day 221 of the Gregorian year. The year will end in 145 days.
The sun will rise at 4:49 Moscow time, and will set at 20:23. At 12:36 the sun will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 15 hours 33 minutes, and darkness will last 8 hours 27 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 7 after Pentecost. No fast. Commemoration day of the holy martyrs Hermolaus, Hermippus and Hermocrates, priests of Nicomedia.
Name days: Ermolai, Moses, Praskovya, Fyodor.
Secular holidays
On August 8, the world celebrates Cat Day, Mountaineering Day, Ophthalmology Day, and Refrigerator Day.
Events of August 8
In 1917, a congress of Bolsheviks took place, which took a course towards armed uprising.
In 1932, women were allowed to work in mines in the USSR.
In 1941, the Soviet Union carried out its first bombing of Berlin. The capital of Nazi Germany was attacked by 5 Il-4 aircraft.
In 1949, the first session of the Council of Europe took place in Strasbourg (France).
In 2000, scientists officially announced the start of experiments in human cloning.
In 2008, the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics took place in Beijing.
Who was born on August 8th
In 1928, People's Artist of the RSFSR, actress Nina Menshikova was born.
In 1948, cosmonaut and two-time Hero of the Soviet Union Svetlana Savitskaya was born.
Actor Stanislav Sadalsky was born in 1951.
In 1981, tennis player Roger Federer was born.
Folk omens
The weather may soon turn bad if there is an infestation of biting flies.
Yellow leaves have appeared on the linden tree – autumn will come early.
If you hear a cuckoo in the first ten days of August, it will be late autumn and a hot Indian summer.
The August morning is cold – winter will be early and frosty.
