Today is Tuesday, November 12: day 317 of the Gregorian year. The year will end in 49 days.
The sun will rise at 8:00 Moscow time, and at 16:29 it will go below the horizon. At 12:15 the luminary will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 8 hours 29 minutes, and darkness will last 15 hours 31 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 21 after Pentecost. No fast. Commemoration day of the holy martyr Zinoviy, Bishop of Egeya, and his sister, the martyr Zinovia.
Name days: Makar, Joseph, Maxim, Mark, Alexander, Artem, Matvey, Julian, Leonid, Elena.
Secular holidays
Today Russia celebrates Security Specialist Day.
November 12 is World Pneumonia Day.
Today is Constitution Day in Azerbaijan.
Events of November 12
In 1910, the first stunt for a movie was performed. A stuntman jumped from a burning balloon into the Hudson River.
In 1927, Leon Trotsky and Grigory Zinoviev were expelled from the Communist Party.
In 1982, Yuri Andropov became General Secretary of the USSR.
Who was born on November 12
In 1840, the French sculptor Auguste Rodin was born.
In 1935, People's Artist of the USSR, actress and singer Lyudmila Gurchenko was born.
Actor Ryan Gosling was born in 1980.
In 1982, actress Anne Hathaway was born.
Folk omens
A warm day foretells a calm and mild winter without severe frosts and snowstorms.
An abundance of stars in the sky promises a frosty winter.
The winter will be cold if the autumn is rainy.
