Today is Thursday, July 11: the 193rd day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The year will end in 173 days.
The sun will rise at 4:01 Moscow time, and at 21:10 it will go below the horizon. At 12:36 the luminary will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 17 hours 8 minutes, and darkness will last 6 hours 52 minutes.
Church holidays
3rd week after Pentecost. Apostles' Fast.
On July 11, the Church honors the memory of Saints Sergius and Herman, the Valaam miracle workers, and celebrates the transfer of the relics of the martyrs and miracle workers Cyrus and John.
Name days: Herman, John, Cyrus, Xenophon, Paul, Sergius.
Secular holidays
Today in Russia we celebrate Lighting Designer Day (Lighting Operator or Gaffer Day).
Under the auspices of the UN, World Population Day is celebrated on July 11.
Also today the world celebrates Chocolate Day.
Events of July 11
In 1921, pro-Soviet power was established in Mongolia.
In 1930, the Novosibirsk Youth Theatre was opened.
In 1960, the French agreed to grant independence to a number of African countries. This decision included Dahomey (Benin), Niger, Upper Volta (Burkina Faso), Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire), Chad, the Central African Republic, and Congo.
In 1995, the Serbian army occupied Srebrenica as part of the Bosnian War, which was followed by a massacre of unarmed Muslims.
Who was born on July 11th
In 1903, Soviet intelligence officer Rudolf Abel was born.
In 1934, Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani was born.
In 1940, People's Artist of Russia, singer Elena Kamburova was born.
In 1976, People's Artist of the Russian Federation Edgard Zapashny was born.
In 1984, actress Ekaterina Vilkova was born.
Folk omens
The cuckoo does not call on July 11th – winter will come early and will be cold.
A windless day foretells rain.
The weather will get worse if the water in the rivers rises.
If by mid-July the leaves have started to fall from the trees, then by September they will all be bare.
Earlier we talked about the events and signs of Samson Segnoy's day.
