Today is Sunday, September 15: the 259th day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The year will end in 107 days.
The sun will rise at 6:02 Moscow time, and at 18:49 it will go below the horizon. At 12:26 the luminary will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 12 hours 46 minutes, and darkness will last 11 hours 14 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 12 after Pentecost. No fast. Today, Orthodox believers honor the memory of the martyr Mamas, his father Theodotus and mother Rufina, as well as Saint John the Faster, Patriarch of Constantinople.
Name days: Anatoly, Anthony, Vasily, Victor, Vladimir, Herman, Demid, John, Ksenia, Leonid, Mikhail, Nikolay, Pavel, Peter, Rufina, Seraphima, Stefan, Theodore, Theodosius, Theodotus, Philip, Julian.
Secular holidays
Today, Russia celebrates the Day of Federal State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance.
Dagestan celebrates the Day of Unity of Nations on September 15.
Today the world celebrates Democracy Day, Forest Workers Day and Free Money Day.
Events of September 15
In 1959, Nikita Khrushchev began a 13-day visit to the United States. It was the first ever trip by a Soviet leader to the United States.
In 1993, Michael Jackson performed in Moscow for the first time.
In 1997, the domain google.com was registered.
In 2008, the global financial crisis began with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers.
Who was born on September 15
In 1254, the Italian traveler Marco Polo was born.
In 1881, industrialist Ettore Bugatti was born and founded the Bugatti automobile company.
In 1890, the writer Agatha Christie was born.
In 1946, actor Tommy Lee Jones and director Oliver Stone were born.
In 1953, TV presenter and doctor Alexander Myasnikov was born.
In 1964, the Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, was born.
Actor Tom Hardy was born in 1977.
Folk omens
The weather has become clear – autumn will be warm and sunny.
In the evening the sunset is red - frost will soon hit.
If it rains on this day, dry weather will set in until the end of autumn.
There is no wind and a lot of dew - it will be warm and clear in autumn.
