Today is Wednesday, November 6: day 311 of the Gregorian year. The year ends in 55 days.
The sun will rise at 7:47 Moscow time, and at 16:41 it will go below the horizon. At 12:14 the luminary will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 8 hours 53 minutes, and darkness will last 15 hours 7 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 20 after Pentecost. Fast day. Day of the Icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow".
Orthodox believers honor the memory of the martyr Arefa and 4,299 martyrs with him.
Name days: George, Afanasy, Peter, Irakli, Nikolai, Ivan, Alexey.
Secular holidays
Today, under the auspices of the UN, the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict is celebrated.
November 6 is also Stress Awareness Day.
Events of November 6
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the 16th President of the United States.
In 1943, Soviet troops liberated Kyiv from the German occupiers.
In 1957, the first Eternal Flame in the USSR was lit on the Field of Mars in Leningrad.
In 1975, the city of Sayanogorsk was founded in Khakassia.
In 2012, Barack Obama was re-elected to a second presidential term in the United States.
Who was born on November 6th
In 1494, the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I the Magnificent was born.
In 1814, the creator of the saxophone, Adolphe Sax, was born.
In 1852, the writer Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak was born.
In 1965, the singer Marina Khlebnikova was born.
Actress Zoya Buryak was born in 1966.
Folk omens
If snow falls on the bare ground on Arefyev's day, then the winter will be warm.
A harsh and protracted winter is expected if sunny and windless weather sets in on Arefyev's day.
Ice on the puddles today promises a mild and snowy winter.
