Today is Sunday, November 17: day 322 of the Gregorian year. The year ends in 44 days.
The sun will rise at 8:10 Moscow time, and at 16:21 it will go below the horizon. At 12:15 the luminary will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 8 hours 10 minutes, and darkness will last 15 hours 50 minutes.
Church holidays
21st Sunday after Pentecost. No fast. Commemoration day of the Venerable Ioanniky the Great, the Hieromartyr Nicander, Bishop of Myra, and Hermes, priest.
Name days: Alexander, Nikolai, Evgenia, Ilya, Stepan, Ivan, Porfiry.
Secular holidays
Today, Russia celebrates District Police Officers Day.
The world celebrates Students' Day on November 17, and in Armenia they celebrate Military Medical Worker's Day.
Events of November 17
In 1800, Congress first met in Washington.
In 1804, the first universities were established in Kazan and Kharkov.
In 1919, the Red Army drove Anton Denikin's troops out of Kursk.
In 1920, the Red Army occupied Crimea.
In 1978, the USSR announced the successful test of a neutron bomb.
In 2019, the first patient with COVID-19 was identified in China.
Who was born on November 17
In 1895, cultural scientist and literary scholar Mikhail Bakhtin was born.
In 1906, Soichiro Honda, an engineer and founder of the Honda company, was born.
In 1942, director Martin Scorsese was born.
In 1944, actor Danny DeVito was born.
Folk omens
If it snows on this day, you should expect a snowy and cold winter.
Frost on November 17 foretells severe cold in winter.
If it rains or snows with rain on Yerema, then the winter will be mild.
Clear and cloudless weather promises severe frosts on Epiphany (January 19).
