Today is Wednesday, September 25: day 269 of the Gregorian year. The year will end in 98 days.
The sun will rise at 6:22 Moscow time, and at 18:22 it will set. At 12:22 the luminary will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 12 hours, darkness will last 12 hours.
Church holidays
Week 14 after Pentecost. Fast day. Afterglow of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. Commemoration day of the holy martyr Autonomus of Italy, bishop.
Name days: Alexey, Afanasy, Daniil, John, Nicodemus, Nikolay, Semyon, Feodor, Julian.
Secular holidays
September 25th is World Pharmacists Day.
Mozambique celebrates Armed Forces Day, while the United States celebrates Comic Book Day.
Events of September 25
In 1632 the city of Yakutsk was founded.
In 1818, for the first time in history, a blood transfusion was given to a human being.
In 1943, Smolensk was liberated from the German occupiers.
In 1945, Hero of the Soviet Union parachutist Vasily Romanyuk made a long jump from the stratosphere, which became a world record for the height and duration of a fall with an unopened parachute.
In 2002, the Vitim bolide fell in the Irkutsk region.
Who was born on September 25
In 1897, Nobel Prize winner and writer William Faulkner was born.
In 1906, pianist and People's Artist of the USSR Dmitry Shostakovich was born.
In 1920, director and People's Artist of the USSR Sergei Bondarchuk was born.
In 1938, People's Artist of the RSFSR, actress Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina was born.
Actor Will Smith was born in 1968.
Folk omens
Rain on Artamonov Day promises a long autumn.
A mole dug a hole on the north side - the winter will be warm, on the south - cold, on the west - damp, on the east - dry.
An abundance of acorns foretells a warm winter.
Winter will come early if the trees are already bare of leaves.
