Today is Sunday, December 1st: day 336 of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The year ends in 30 days.
The sun will rise at 8:36 Moscow time, and at 16:03 it will go below the horizon. At 12:20 the luminary will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 7 hours 26 minutes, and darkness will last 16 hours 34 minutes.
Church holidays
23rd week after Pentecost. Nativity Fast. Day of Remembrance of Martyr Plato of Ancyra, Hieromartyr Roman, Deacon and Martyr Varul, Youth.
Name days: Roman, Nikolai, Platon.
Secular holidays
Today, the Russian Federation celebrates All-Russian Hockey Day.
December 1 is Perm Krai Day.
Today the world celebrates World AIDS Day and Neurologist Day.
Events of December 1st
In 1891, the game of basketball was invented by James Naismith.
In 1934, Sergei Kirov was killed in Leningrad.
In 1989, Mikhail Gorbachev became the first Soviet leader to visit the Vatican.
In 1991, the first presidential elections were held in Kazakhstan.
In 2001, the United Russia party was founded.
In 2019, an outbreak of coronavirus occurred in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
Who was born on December 1st
In 1922, Soviet hockey player and footballer, coach Vsevolod Bobrov was born.
In 1945, satirist and People's Artist of the RSFSR Gennady Khazanov was born.
In 1949, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was born.
In 1956, the artist Amoyak Hakobyan was born.
In 1959, musician Garik Sukachev was born.
In 1969, actor Dmitry Maryanov was born.
Folk omens
If it starts snowing, there will be a rich harvest next year.
The sky is clear - the winter will be short but cold.
It’s cold and there’s frost on the trees – it’s an early spring.
