Today is Saturday, September 7: the 251st day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The year will end in 115 days.
The sun will rise at 5:47 Moscow time, and at 19:10 it will go below the horizon. At 12:29 the luminary will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 13 hours 22 minutes, and darkness will last 10 hours 38 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 11 after Pentecost. No fast. Commemoration day of the Apostle of the Seventy Titus, Bishop of Crete. The Orthodox Church today celebrates the transfer of the relics of the Apostle Bartholomew.
Name days: Bartholomew, Vladimir, Epiphanes, John, Moses.
Secular holidays
On September 7, the world celebrates the International Day of Clean Air for blue skies, Beard Day and War Toy Destruction Day.
Brazil celebrates Independence Day today, while Mozambique marks Victory Day.
Events of September 7
In 1936, the last thylacine died in the Tasmanian Zoo (Australia).
In 1945, the Victory Parade of the Allied forces of the anti-Hitler coalition (USSR, USA, France, Great Britain) took place in Berlin.
In 1953, Nikita Khrushchev was elected to the post of First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee.
In 1988, the musical group "Kombinatsia" gave its first concert, which took place in Saratov.
In 2011, a plane carrying hockey players from the Lokomotiv club crashed near Yaroslavl.
Who was born on September 7th
In 1533, Queen Elizabeth I of England was born.
In 1870, the writer Alexander Kuprin was born.
In 1923, the lyric poet Eduard Asadov was born.
In 1978, actress Lyubov Tikhomirova was born.
Folk omens
Crows caw a lot on Titus's Day - it will rain soon.
If it starts raining in the first half of the day, it will continue to rain the whole next day.
An abundance of mushrooms foretells a long winter.
