You can’t fight and be lazy today.
What happened on this day?
Today the Orthodox Church honors this memory Martyr Theodotus. He and 30 other martyrs suffered for their faith and preaching Christianity. The pagans tortured them and forced them to renounce God, but nothing succeeded, so the martyrs were beheaded.
Things not to do on November 5:
- to dispute;
- being lazy;
- make deals.
Popular beliefs and signs:
- Jackdaws are screaming – snowfall is expected;
- wet soil – there will be a good harvest next year;
- icy conditions – this weather will last for a long time.
Angel Day is celebrated:
Alexander, Alexey, Afanasy, Bogdan, Valery, Vasily, Veniamin, Georgy, Grigory, Evgeny, Egor, Ivan, Illarion, Kirill, Konstantin, Maxim, Mikhail, Nikolay, Pavel, Sergey, Theodor, Fedor, Ian, Elizabeth.
Born on this day:
- 1867 – Marie Skłodowska-Curie, French physicist and chemist, two-time Nobel Prize winner: physics (1903) and chemistry (1911);
- 1913 – Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize in Literature winner (1957);
- 1936 – Nikolai Vingranovsky, Ukrainian writer and cinematographer.
And also on this day:
- 1788 – Cossacks led by Anton Golovaty conquer the Ottoman stronghold of Ochakov;
- 1928 – Gosprom, the first skyscraper in Ukraine and Europe, was officially opened in Kharkov;
- 1951 – The first television center in the Ukrainian SSR was put into operation in Kiev;
- 1967 – The UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
Source: Focus
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