Today is Saturday, November 9: day 314 of the Gregorian year. The year will end in 52 days.
The sun will rise at 7:54 Moscow time, and at 16:35 it will go below the horizon. At 12:14 the luminary will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 8 hours 41 minutes, and darkness will last 15 hours 19 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 20 after Pentecost. No fast. Commemoration day of the martyr Nestor of Thessalonica.
Name days: Mark, Sergey, Kapitolina, Afanasy, Stepan, Terentiy, Andrey, Nikolay, Willy, Ivan.
Secular holidays
Today, Russia celebrates Special Rapid Response Unit (SOBR) Day.
On November 9, the world celebrates the International Day against Fascism and Anti-Semitism and the International Day of Anti-Nuclear Actions.
Today is also Leasing Day.
Events of November 9
In 1804, the first water supply system was opened in Moscow.
In 1906, the Stolypin agrarian reform began to be implemented in Russia.
In 1938, Kristallnacht occurred in Nazi Germany, during which synagogues, homes and schools of Jews were burned.
In 1989, the destruction of the Berlin Wall began.
Who was born on November 9th
In 1818, the writer Ivan Turgenev was born.
In 1929, People's Artist of the USSR, composer Alexandra Pakhmutova was born.
In 1936, Soviet grandmaster Mikhail Tal was born.
In 1974, Italian footballer and world champion (2006) Alessandro Del Piero was born.
Folk omens
Snow on this day foretells a mild winter.
Seeing a bullfinch near your home means good news and success in your endeavors.
If it's a sunny day, the winter will be long and snowy.
Gusty winds promise changeable weather and frequent thaws in winter.
