You cannot collect small coins from the ground today.
What happened today:
Today the Orthodox Church honors the memory of Sophronius of Jerusalem.
March 24 was believed to be a good day to begin treatment of the stomach, teeth and liver. Also from that day on, birch sap was collected. According to beliefs, the activity of birds begins.
March 24 – All Ukraine and the World Day Against Tuberculosis
March 24 is also International Depression Day.
Things not to do on March 24:
- drive the birds out of the garden
- to scold, to slander
- get things done
- break the fast
- pick up small money
- distribution change
Folk signs and beliefs:
- If the cold ends by the end of March, expect a warm summer
- In Zubnik, the memory of the holy martyr Antipas is honored – a healer from various ailments and, above all, a comforter from toothache
- If at the end of March, mice enter the fields, this is a harbinger of crop failure.
- There was frost at night – there will be no snowfall during the day; fluffy frost – good weather
Angel Day is celebrated:
Vasily, Georgy, Efim, Ivan, Yegor, Alexey, Yuri
Also on this day:
1882 – In Berlin, German scientist Robert Koch announces the discovery of the agent that causes tuberculosis. A year later, he discovered the cause of cholera. In 1905, the scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
1898 – The first American car is sold. Mining engineer Robert Ellison bought the Winton model for $1,000.
1930 – The dwarf planet Pluto gets its present name.
1949 – For the first time at the Oscars, a foreign film is chosen as the best – English adaptation of Hamlet. Laurence Olivier won Best Actor, and Best Director went to John Huston for The Treasures of the Sierra Madre.
1955 – The first offshore oil platform is established in the USA
1972 – The Godfather was released on American screens.
1989 – The Exxon Valdez oil tanker crashes off Alaska.
2003 – weighing a distant black hole
2020 – The International Olympic Committee announces that the 2020 Summer Olympics have been postponed to 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
2022 – President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky confers the honorary title “Hero City of Ukraine” to 4 cities: Bucha, Irpen, Nikolaev and Akhtyrka
Source: Focus
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