Today is Thursday, October 31st: day 305 of the Gregorian year. The year will end in 61 days.
The sun will rise at 7:35 Moscow time, and at 16:53 it will go below the horizon. At 12:14 the luminary will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 9 hours 18 minutes, and darkness will last 14 hours 42 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 19 after Pentecost. No fast. Commemoration day of the Apostle and Evangelist Luke.
Name days: Andrey, Gabriel, David, Euphrosyne, Elizabeth, Joseph, Zlata, Luka, Nikolay, Sergey, Semyon, Fedor, Julian.
Secular holidays
Russia celebrates Sign Language Interpreter Day on October 31. Workers of pretrial detention centers and prisons also celebrate their professional holiday today.
This Thursday, the world celebrates International Savings Day, Cities Day and Black Sea Day.
Events of October 31
In 1961, the body of Joseph Stalin was removed from Vladimir Lenin's mausoleum.
In 1984, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated.
In 2011, the 7 billionth inhabitant of the Earth was born.
In 2015, there was a plane crash over the Sinai Peninsula. An Airbus A321-231 with Russians on board exploded during a flight from Egypt to St. Petersburg.
In 2018, the tallest statue in the world, the Statue of Unity, was unveiled in India.
Who was born on October 31st
In 1451, the navigator Christopher Columbus was born. The date of birth of the traveler is considered to be tentative.
In 1922, People's Artist of the USSR, actor Anatoly Papanov was born.
In 1961, director Peter Jackson was born.
In 1963, actor Rob Schneider was born.
Folk omens
If it rains on Lukov's Day, then spring will come early.
The number of rings on an onion indicates the severity of the winter: the more there are, the stronger the frosts expected.
If the sky is cloudy in the evening, it will rain the next day.
A cat scratching the floor means windy weather.
