12.06.2018 08:00

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Today is World Day Against Child Labor.

The day is celebrated by decision of the session of the General Conference of the International Labor Organization, held June 3-20, 2002. World Day Against Child Labor was established to draw public attention to the problem of child labor, especially its worst forms: slavery and forced labor, labor in dangerous conditions, involvement of children in drug trafficking and prostitution.

Child labor is labor, the performance of which is dangerous and harmful to the child, prohibited by international and national legislation. It was against such work, which became especially widespread in the era of industrialization, that the International Labor Organization directed its activities, one of the first Conventions of which was the prohibition of the use of the labor of children under the age of 14 in industrial enterprises (1919). Subsequently, other conventions were adopted, among which a special place is occupied by Convention No. 182 “On the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor”, which was adopted in 1999 (Ukraine ratified the document in October 2000).

According to Ukrainian legislation, you can be hired from the age of 16 (as an exception - at the age of 14-15, but only with the consent of one of the parents, or persons replacing them). According to the ILO Convention, any form of work that is likely to harm physical, mental or moral health, safety or morals should not be performed by persons under 18 years of age.

According to the UN, today more than 218 million children aged 5 to 17 are forced to work, 152 million are victims of modern slavery, and 73 million of them are engaged in hazardous work. Most of all - 71% - child labor is used in agriculture, including fishing, forestry and animal husbandry; 17% - in the service sector, 12% in industry, including the extraction of natural resources.

This year, in order to draw everyone's attention to the urgent problem for the whole world - to improve the labor protection of young workers and end child labor, under the auspices of world day(April 28) and World Day Against Child Labor (June 12), a joint annual campaign is being held under the slogan "Safety and Health for a New Generation".

Events of the day:

On this day in 1550, the Swedish king Gustav Vasa founded the city of Helsinki (since 1917 - the capital of Finland). Until the 18th century, Helsinki was a small city with wooden buildings, where from time to time an epidemic of plague broke out, the victims of which were almost all the townspeople, who at that time were not even two thousand. Only in 1748, when the Swedes began to build the fortress of Sveaborg, which was supposed to protect the settlement from the sea, did the city begin to grow, the first stone buildings appeared. Now more than 600 thousand people live in Helsinki, 10 percent of which are foreigners. For many years, the Finnish capital has traditionally been among the five best and most comfortable cities in the world. In terms of environmental performance, Helsinki has been repeatedly identified as the “cleanest” European capital. The twin city of the capital of Finland is Kyiv, which has a lot to learn and learn from its younger northern counterpart.

Anniversaries of the day:

Today would have been the 87th birthday Evgenia Miroshnichenko - one of the brightest stars of the Ukrainian and world opera scene, singer, teacher. Evgenia Semyonovna Miroshnichenko (1931-2009) - Ukrainian opera and concert-chamber singer (lyric-coloratura soprano), music teacher, professor of the solo singing department of the National Musical Academy. P.I. Tchaikovsky, People's Artist of Ukraine, Hero of Ukraine (2006). These are her official regalia. And unofficially, both critics and numerous admirers of her work called Evgenia Semyonovna the last prima donna of the Ukrainian scene. Of course, not for pseudo-star manners and depraved temper, but for the scale of talent, soul and mind. For a magical voice - a crystal voice that cannot be confused with any other, and for a bright dramatic gift. And in general - for the scale of the Personality. The only thing that Miroshnichenko allowed herself was to be frank, not only on stage, but also in everyday life. She always said what she thought and did not recognize "secret diplomacy", did not tolerate tricks and hypocrisy. And colleagues knew it well. Evgenia Miroshnichenko was born in the village of Sovetskoye (after decommunization - Grafskoye), in the Kharkiv region. She inherited her love for singing from her mother. She studied at the Kharkov vocational school, sang. Then she was heard by the chief conductor of the Opera House and the rector of the Kyiv Conservatory Alexei Klimov. He offered Miroshnichenko to study, but science somehow did not go to her, and the girl was expelled from the conservatory. Evgenia started working at a garment factory. But when the conservatories were preparing for the reporting concert, they remembered the “vociferous Zhenya”. She was sought out and convinced that she should sing on the big stage... In 1957 Evgenia Miroshnichenko graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory and became a soloist of the Kyiv Opera. Her stage debut was Verdi's La Traviata. Then she performed leading roles in the operas The Barber of Seville, The Golden Cockerel, The Magic Flute, and Aeneid. Trained at La Scala. Since 1990, she has taught at the Department of Solo Singing at the Pyotr Tchaikovsky National Music Academy. She brought up a whole galaxy of worthy students, including Mikhail Didyk, Valentina Stepnaya, Susanna Chakhoyan, Olga Pasichnik. The dream of the last years of her life was the creation of the "Small Opera" in Kyiv - a kind of alternative to the too official opera and ballet theater, a platform where talented youth could perform, experimental performances would be staged. But the dream remained unrealizable - Kyiv officials, brought up mainly on Russian chanson, opera is as far away as Mars is for frogs. They were barely able to allocate the capital's House of Trams under the name of the singer, but the land on which the building is located was given to some "dark" private company. That is, they seemed to be given, but in fact they did not give anything. Evgenia Semyonovna struggled to the last with the stupidity and ignorance of officials, and also with a serious illness. But anyway, she went to other worlds as an unconquered prima donna, a real Queen, those who managed to live a great beautiful life without succumbing to any other (even better) "direction".

77 years since birth Chick Corea (1941), American jazz pianist, composer, multiple Grammy winner. The author of several classical jazz compositions (Spain, Fiesta, Windows), combining jazz techniques with the gravitation of the author of classical music. His parents are Italian Americans. His father, a jazz musician, began teaching his son music when he was barely four years old. Chick Corea began his professional career in 1962-1963, playing the piano in bands that performed music in the Latin American style. In the mid-1960s, in collaboration with trumpeter Blue Mitchell, he made his first professional recordings. Since 1968 he has collaborated with the Miles Davis band. Subsequently, he created his own group "Circle" ("Circle"), but then began a solo career. The maestro has been on tour in Ukraine (performed in a duet with vibraphonist Gary Burton), which invariably delighted jazz lovers.

Death anniversary:

15 years from death Gregory Peca (1916-2003), a popular American film actor, Hollywood star of the 40-60s of the last century. Traditionally included in the hundred of the most outstanding actors according to the American Film Institute. Filmed in the films: "Roman Holiday", "Moby Dick", "The Guns of Navarone", "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962, "Oscar"), "Omen", "McKenna's Gold", "The Omen". His partners on the set were Ava Gardner, Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn and other Hollywood celebrities. Gregory Peck attended the University of California at Berkeley. Played in the student theater. Then he moved to New York, studied at the local school of dramatic art. He earned his own education, worked as a waiter, usher, fashion model. He started his acting career on Broadway. Soon he was noticed in Hollywood. In 1944, he first appeared in front of a movie camera and since then has become her favorite, because he had the appearance of a "real gentleman." Gregory Peck played goodies all his life - a noble lawyer, a sheriff, a cowboy, a journalist (by the way, Peck was also a noble man in life - everyone who knew the actor noted this). Hitchcock once remarked that Peck was the kind of person who was rarely talked about. And indeed, he was only married twice, the second attempt was especially successful - they happily lived together with the French journalist Véronique Passoni for almost 50 years. It was an exemplary marriage. Bags of letters from fans came to Gregory Peck's address - "Let me spend at least one night with you ...", the unfortunate ones begged. “Sorry, but all my time is scheduled to the minute ...”, the actor’s secretary wrote calmly. For fifty years in cinema, Gregory Peck has starred in more than 50 films. Of course, not all are worth watching, but at least a few films - "To Kill a Mockingbird", "McKenna's Gold" and "Roman Holiday" with touching Audrey Hepburn are worth watching.

On this page you will learn about significant and memorable datessummer day June 12which in thisJune dayfamous people were born, events took place, we will also talk about folk omens and Orthodox holidays of this day, public holidays of different countries from around the world.

Today, as on any day, as you will see, events took place over the centuries, each of them was remembered for something, and the day was no exception.12 June, which is also remembered for its own dates and birthdays of famous people, as well as holidays and folk signs. You and I must always remember and know about those who left their indelible mark on culture, science, sports, politics, medicine and all other areas of human and social development.

June twelfth day, left its indelible mark on history, events and memorable dates, like who was born in thissummerday, once again confirm this. Find out what happened intwelfth summer day 12 junewhat events and significant dates he was noted by what mankind remembered, who was born, what folk signs characterize him and much more that you should know about, it’s just interesting to know.

Who was born on June 12 (twelfth)

David Rockefeller Sr. June 12, 1915 - March 20, 2017. American banker, statesman, globalist and head of the Rockefeller house. Grandson of oil tycoon and first ever dollar billionaire John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil. Younger brother of the 41st U.S. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and the 37th Governor of Arkansas, Winthrop O. Rockefeller. The first member of the dynasty to reach a century.

Anne Frank (German Anne Frank), Anneliese Marie Frank (German Anneliese Marie Frank; June 12, 1929 - early March 1945) - a Jewish girl, a native of Germany, who, after Hitler came to power, hid with her family from Nazi terror in the Netherlands. The author of the famous "Diary of Anne Frank" - a document denouncing Nazism and translated into many languages ​​of the world.

Adriana Francesca Lima (port. Adriana Francesca Lima; born June 12, 1981, Salvador) is a Brazilian supermodel, best known as one of the Victoria's Secret angels, as well as the face of the advertising cosmetics company Maybelline.

George Herbert Walker Bush (b. June 12, 1924, Milton, Massachusetts) - 41st President of the United States (in 1989-1993), Vice President under Ronald Reagan (in 1981-1989), congressman , diplomat, director of Central Intelligence, father of the 43rd US President George W. Bush.

DJ Qualls (6/12/1978 [Nashville]) - American actor;

Alisa Grebenshchikova (06/12/1978 [Leningrad]) - Russian actress;

Francis O'Connor (06/12/1967 [Wantage, Oxfordshire]) - Australian actress;

Eamonn Walker (06/12/1962 [London]) - English theater and film actor;

Corinne Charby (06/12/1960 [Paris]) - French actress, model and pop singer;

Rolonda Watts (06/12/1959) - African-American actress and TV presenter;

Timothy Busfield (06/12/1957 [Lansing]) - American actor;

Vyacheslav Polunin (06/12/1950 [Novosil]) - Soviet and Russian actor, director, clown, mime;

Yuri Baturin (06/12/1949 [Moscow]) - Russian politician, scientist (lawyer and political scientist) and cosmonaut;

Konstantin Lopushansky (06/12/1947 [Dnepropetrovsk]) - director of feature films, screenwriter;

Albert Makashov (06/12/1938 [village of Left Rossosh]) - general, active participant in the October events of 1993;

Bernard Bakana Kolelas (06/12/1933 [Moloki] - 11/12/2009 [Paris]) - Congolese politician, Prime Minister of the Congo in 1997;

Jim Neighbors (06/12/1930 [Alabama]) - American actor and singer;

Vitaly Semin (06/12/1927 [Rostov-on-Don] - 05/10/1978 [Rostov-on-Don]) - Russian writer;

Igor Bessarabov (06/12/1919 - 1993) - Soviet cameraman and director;

Priscilla Lane (06/12/1915 [Indianola] - 04/04/1995 [Andover]) was an American actress and singer;

Milovan Djilas (06/12/1911 [Podbishche] - 04/20/1995 [Belgrade]) - Yugoslav politician;

Otto Skorzeny (06/12/1908 [Vienna] - 07/05/1975 [Madrid]) - SS colonel, who, at the head of a commando group, managed to free the arrested fascist dictator of Italy Benito Mussolini in 1943;

Marina Semenova (06/12/1908 [St. Petersburg] - 06/09/2010 [Moscow]) - ballerina, People's Artist of the USSR;

Mikhail Koltsov (06/12/1898 [Kyiv] - 02/02/1942 [Moscow]) - journalist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, deputy of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR;

Anthony Eden (06/12/1897 - 01/14/1977) - the first Earl of Avon (1st Earl of Avon), English Conservative politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1935-38, 1940-45 and in 1951-55; prime minister in 1955-57;

Frank Eugene Austin (06/12/1873 [Amesbury] - 1964) - American scientist and inventor, holder of a patent for the world's first officially registered formicarium;

William Yeats (06/12/1865 [Dublin] - 01/28/1939) - Irish poet, playwright, critic, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1923;

Shihabuddin Al-Omari (06/12/1301 [Damascus] - 1349) - Arab scientist, geographer, historian, encyclopedist.

Below, at the end of this page, you will find a table with the days (dates) of the celebration of Orthodox (folk) holidays -Honey Spas (Makavey) , Apple (Great) Spas , as well as Walnut (Bread) Spas until 2035...

Dates June 12

it is also World Day Against Child Labor.

in Turkmenistan it is the Day of Science,

in Ukraine - the day of workers of the stock market.

USA - Hug Day.

in Finland - Helsinki Day,

in Turkey - Constitution Day.

According to the folk calendar, this is the Serpent's holiday.

On this day:

in 1630 the Puritans sailed to Massachusetts

in 1648, the Salt Riot began in Moscow, due to the rise in prices for white poison

in 1765 Peter Bagration was born, a hero Patriotic War

Austro-Hungarian Empire formed in 1867

in 1908, the most famous German commando was born - SS Otto Skorzeny, on whose account the daring release of Mussolini and the role in Tartledave's book about the invasion of lizards

The 41st President of the United States, George W. Bush, was born in 1924.

in 1937, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, a red marshal who suppressed several rebellions, lost in Poland and was repressed on the eve of World War II, died

mime Vyacheslav Polunin, author of the immortal phrase "Asisyai" was born in 1950

Alexander Deineka, one of the founders of romantic socialist realism, died in 1969

in 1990, the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of Russia was adopted, from where the tradition of celebrating this day came from

Boris Yeltsin became president of Russia in 1991 with an overwhelming majority of votes

in 1997, Bulat Okudzhava, a bard, whose memory is officially honored on this day, died

in 1999, Russian paratroopers marched to the Serbian airport Slatina, preventing the invasion of the same NATO troops.

Events June 12

Jean-Baptiste Denis, professor at the Sorbonne in philosophy, mathematics and medicine, and part-time also the court healer of King Louis XIV, for the first time in the world conducted a successful blood transfusion to a person. The patient was a fifteen-year-old boy suffering from a fever.

He was transfused with lamb blood in the amount of 250 milliliters, after which the teenager quickly recovered. The existence of blood groups and rhesus was not yet known at that time, so this case could be called a happy coincidence.

Subsequently, Denis tried more than once to carry out a similar procedure, trying to save sick patients, but all attempts ended tragically. After that, France banned blood transfusions to humans.

The inventor of the "Lung Protector", under this name it was patented, was the American Lewis Haslett. The gas mask was far from perfect and was a block of valves that were attached to the mouth or nose and a felt filter attached through a tube to this block.

Only the Russian scientist Nikolai Zelinsky at the beginning of the 20th century managed to construct a real coal gas mask, which was put into mass production in 1916.

On June 12, presidential elections were held in Russia. As is often the case, if the need arises, in addition to local elections, referendums, polls, or elections of mayors or governors are held.

So in Leningrad, simultaneously with the presidential elections, elections were held for the mayor of the city and a referendum was held, the purpose of which was to find out whether the inhabitants wanted to return one of the historical names to the city - Petrograd or St. Petersburg, or leave Leningrad.

By the way, Anatoly Sobchak, who ran for mayor, was against holding a referendum on changing the name of the city, because. I was afraid of losing the votes of blockade voters and participants in the Second World War.

As a fait accompli, 54% of Leningraders voted for the renaming, and 42% of citizens voted against. Voter turnout was 64% of total number living. As a result of the vote, Sobchak was elected mayor of the city, and Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the RSFSR.

Signs June 12 - the day of Yeremey, Isaac

Usually, sowing works are completed on Yeremeya, since this day marks the beginning of summer. Now viburnum is blooming, and bees are swarming. Also, June 12 was popularly called serpentine, because, according to observations, “serpentine weddings” were held, and the snakes themselves were very aggressive.

Therefore, people walked with caution on June 12 in the fields and in the forest. It was dangerous to kill snakes, because the Slavs believed that snake relatives would definitely take revenge, and not a single healer could save a person from snake venom.

There was even a saying: "Do not go to the grass on this day, do not disturb the forest thickets, do not try fate." In addition, in Russia there was a widespread belief that snakes are associated with many plants, and therefore can influence each other. Often people brought a piece of Maryin root in an amulet, and it was he who was credited with the ability to drive away snakes.

They believed that if you scatter branches of rue on the edges, then the snakes will eat them and will surely die or lose the ability to bite. In addition, the Slavs endowed the emerald with similar properties, although it must be said that this stone was not available to everyone.

Interestingly, snakes among the people not only caused fear, but also enjoyed respect. So, it was believed that reptiles or even fragments of their bodies could heal diseases. Often used to get rid of ailments, melted fat - it helped fight erysipelas, eliminated suppuration of the eyes. Snake skin could be applied to abscesses.

If a person was bitten by a snake on the day of June 12, then the signs said that no treatment would help him. On other days, healers tried to eliminate the poison with herbs. So, the chewed root of the snake and lovage, the lungwort, the horse sorrel root, the grated root of the horse sorrel could be applied to the wound - there were different methods of treatment in each region.

It was believed that June 12 is an auspicious day for planting beans. During such work, they often said: “Beans are born, both large and large, for all shares, for old and small, baptized for the whole world.” Previously, the beans were necessarily soaked in winter water, which was previously collected in ravines near the forest, where the snow lies for a long time.

In the Orthodox Church, on June 12, the day of memory of the Monk Isaac the Confessor, also known as Abbot Dolmatsky, is celebrated. Having taken the tonsure, he settled in the desert and came to Constantinople during the persecution organized against Christians. Isaac appealed to the emperor with a request not to oppress the believers and to open churches.

For this, he was thrown into a ravine, but remained alive, but, the emperor predicted death before he himself died. The prophecy of Isaac came true - soon the emperor was killed. A monastery was built in the city, in which Isaac became a mentor. He died in 383.

In addition, on June 12, the memory of Onuphrius the Great, an Egyptian hermit and early Christian saint who lived in the 4th century, is venerated. In some villages, the tradition of consecrating churches in cemeteries in his honor has been preserved.

During this period, slight frosts can sometimes be observed. Linden blossoms, and the air becomes honey, sweet. The small-leaved linden blooms first. Then bird cherry, jasmine, wild rose and early potatoes bloom.

Some varieties of strawberries are beginning to bear fruit. The last watering of onions and sea buckthorn is carried out. It is possible on June 12 to feed carrots, cabbage, cucumbers, using an infusion of bird droppings, to stop (graft) fruit trees.

Folk omens June 12

1. Spiders weave a web - a sign that allows you to expect a change in the weather in the near future

We hope you enjoyed reading the material on this page and were satisfied with what you read. Agree that it is very useful to know the history of events and dates, as well as those of famous people who were born today, on the twelfth day of summer on June 12 what trace this person left with his actions and deeds in the history of mankind, our world with you.

We are also sure that the folk signs of this day helped you understand some of the subtleties and nuances. By the way, with the help of them, you can check in practice the authenticity and veracity of folk signs.

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June 1, 2018-International Children's Day(celebrated since 1949) ;

June 1, 2018- World Milk Day. It has been celebrated since 2001 at the suggestion of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. June 2, 2018 - Healthy Eating Day (the day of refusing excess food has been celebrated since 2011);

June 2, 2018 - 210 years since the birth of L.A. Zagoskin (1808 - 1890), Russian traveler, explorer;

June 4, 2018 - 115 years since the birth of E.A. Mravinsky (1903–1988), Russian conductor;

June 5, 2018 - World Day environment. Celebrated by the UN since 1972;

June 6, 2018 - Russian Language Day (Celebrated by UN decision since 2014);

June 6, 2018 - 115 years since the birth of A.I. Khachaturian (1903–1978), Soviet composer;

June 7, 2018 - Crowdfunding Day. Crowdfunding is a voluntary collective investment of money by ordinary people in a project in order to support and develop it. Literally, the term is translated into Russian as "from the world on a string";

June 7, 2018 - 170 years since the birth of Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), French painter;

June 7, 2018 - 85 years since the birth of A.M. Arkanov (1933), contemporary writer-humorist;

June 10, 2018 - 105 years since the birth of T.N. Khrennikov (1913–2007), Russian composer;

11 June 2018 - 445th birthday of Ben Jonson (1573–1637), English playwright;

June 12, 2018 - Russia Day. Day of adoption of the Declaration on State Sovereignty of the Russian Federation;

June 12, 2018 - 125 years since the birth of M.E. Koltsov (Fridland) (1898–1940), writer-journalist;

June 13, 2018 - 245 years since the birth of Thomas Young (1773–1829), English scientist;

June 13, 2018 - 135 years since the birth of S.T. Shatsky (1878–1934), Russian teacher;

June 14, 2018 - 195 years since the birth of P.L. Lavrov (1823–1900), Russian thinker;

June 15, 2018 - Day of the creation of the youth movement. On June 15, 1918, the first out-of-school institution for young nature lovers was opened in Moscow;

June 15, 2018 - 175 years since the birth of E. Grieg (1843–1907), Norwegian composer and pianist;

June 15, 2018 - 105 years since the birth of B.A. Ruchiev (1913–1973), Russian poet;

June 16, 2018 - 115 years since the birth of V.M. Sayanov (Makhlin) (1903–1959), Russian poet, prose writer;

June 16, 2018 - 55 years ago (June 16–19, 1963), the world's first female cosmonaut V. V. Tereshkova made a space flight on the Vostok-6 spacecraft;

June 17, 2018 - 115 years since the birth of M.A. Svetlov (1903–1964), Russian poet;

June 18, 2018 - 85 years since the birth of N.I. Leonov (1933–1999), contemporary Russian adventure writer;

June 19, 2018 - 395th birthday of Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), French thinker;

June 22, 2018 - memorable date Russia: Day of Memory and Sorrow - the day of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War (1941);

June 22, 2018 - 120th birthday of Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970), German writer;

June 22, 2018 - 115 years since the birth of M.P. Prilezhaeva (1903–1989), children's writer;

June 22, 2018 - 95 years since the birth of G.A. Yurmina (1923–2007), children's writer;

June 23, 2018 - Day public service UN (proclaimed in 2002 to commemorate the contribution of the public service to the improvement of society);

June 24, 2018 - 180 years since the birth of Jan Matejko (1838–1893), Polish painter;

June 24, 2018 - 110 years since the birth of M.A. Ladynina (1908–2003), Russian film actress;

June 25, 2018 - Sailor's Day (established by the International Maritime Organization in 2010);

June 25, 2018 - 90 years since the birth of I.I. Shklyarevsky (1938), Russian poet;

June 26, 2018 - International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking;

June 29, 2018 - Commemorative date of Russia: Day of partisans and underground fighters;

June 29, 2018 - 220 years since the birth of Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837), Italian poet and thinker;

June 30, 2018 - Day of the security officer of the penitentiary system of the Ministry of Justice of Russia;

Russia Day. Russian Independence Day.

Russia Day or Independence Day of Russia, as this holiday was called until 2002, is one of the “youngest” public holidays in the country.
In 1994, the first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, by his decree, gives state significance to June 12 - the Day of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Russia.
The document itself was signed four years earlier at the First Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR in conditions when the former republics Soviet Union one by one became independent. Later, for simplicity, it was simply called Independence Day. By the way, on June 12, in addition to "independence", our country gained its first popularly elected president.

In any case, this day was interpreted by the people in different ways. The first attempt to create the main state holiday, which would mark the beginning of the new history of Russia, looked somewhat awkward. Polls of the population of those years clearly demonstrated the complete lack of understanding among Russians of the essence of this holiday. For most, June 12 was just another day off, when you can go somewhere on vacation or to the country house to dig into the beds. At first, many even tried to get a job. In the cities of Russia, of course, mass festivities were held, but there was no particular scope.

In his 1998 speech, Boris Yeltsin tried once and for all to stop the gossip around June 12 by suggesting that it be celebrated as Russia Day. Officially, the holiday received a new name only on February 1, 2002, when the provisions of the new Labor Code came into force.

Now the Day of Russia is a holiday of freedom, civil peace and the good consent of all people on the basis of law and justice. This holiday is a symbol of national unity and common responsibility for the present and future of our Motherland.

Events that happened on June 12th.

1665 - The North American city of New Amsterdam is renamed New York.
1667 - Louis XIV's court physician Jean-Baptiste Denis performed the world's first successful blood transfusion on a 15-year-old boy.
1668 - one of the oldest universities Europe.
1776 - Virginia became the first American state to issue a Declaration of Rights.
1811 - British Earl Thomas Selkirk received a territory of 300 thousand km2 (five times the size of his native Scotland) on the site of the current Manitoba, Minnesota and North Dakota - for only 10 shillings a year.
1815 - due to the intrigues of the banker Nathan Rothschild, the London Morning Chronicle newspaper reported Napoleon's victory at Waterloo a few days before the battle (Rothschild, having played on a panic, bought up many shares).
1824 - the first and only scientific work 28-year-old French military engineer and physicist Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot "Reflections on the driving force of fire and on machines capable of developing this force."
1844 - the villages of the Vokhonskaya volost united into one city - Pavlovsky Posad.
1849 - Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett.
1858 - St. Isaac's Cathedral was consecrated in St. Petersburg.
1867 - The Austro-Hungarian Empire is formed.
1872 - The First All-Russian Polytechnic Exhibition was opened in Moscow, dedicated to the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Peter I. The materials of the exhibition formed the basis of the Polytechnic Museum created in the same year.
1897 - Karl Elsener patents the famous Swiss Army knife.
1898 - Declaration of Independence of the Philippines.
1901 - A new constitution for Cuba was approved, according to which the United States received special rights in this country. In fact, this meant the establishment of a US protectorate over Cuba. This constitution was suspended in 1925.
1909 - The first airplane took off with a pilot and two passengers, "Bleriot XII". On it, Louis Blériot flew with Alberto Santos-Dumont and André Fournier.
1917 - Anarchist ideologue Pyotr Kropotkin returned to Russia in triumph from exile.
1920 - Official opening of the Panama Canal (the first ship passed through the canal in August 1914).
1921 - in Petrograd in the former hall Nobility Assembly the grand opening of the State Philharmonic.
1926 - Lithuanian radio began broadcasting (Kaunas); the first announcer is Petras Babickas.
1926 - Brazil left the League of Nations in protest against the admission of Germany.
1935 - Mussolini banned the sale of The New York Times in Italy "for biased coverage of the activities of the Fascists."
1936 - The first American shortwave radio station appeared (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).
- A draft of the "Stalinist Constitution" has been submitted for nationwide discussion.
1945 - Censorship of the press introduced during the war is abolished in France.
1955 - the first large diamond deposit was discovered in Yakutia.
1963 - Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor, premiered in New York.
1965 - in England, it was announced that members of the Beatles group were awarded the Orders of the British Empire "for outstanding services in the field of culture" and "contribution to the export of national products." The awards ceremony took place in October of the same year.
1967 - Launched spacecraft Venera-4, the first in the world to transmit data on the atmosphere of another planet.
- Introduced the monetary unit of Malaysia - the ringgit.
1968 - The French government banned demonstrations and disbanded 11 student organizations.
1973 - A new UN body, the Board of Governors of the UN Environment Program, began its work in Geneva.
1980 - The European Football Association (UEFA) fined the English Football Association £8,000 for "hooligan and dangerous behavior by English fans" during the opening match between England and Belgium in Turin. To stop the riots, the police had to use tear gas, which had an effect on some players, as a result of which the match had to be interrupted for five minutes.
1989 - Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Gorbachev and Chancellor of West Germany Kohl signed a document in Bonn that gave all European states the right to decide for themselves which politic system will be decisive in their countries.
1990 - In the USSR, censorship was abolished by the law "On the Press and Other Mass Media".
- The First Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR adopted the Declaration on State Sovereignty of the RSFSR.
1991 - Boris Yeltsin is elected President of the RSFSR.
- In a referendum, the inhabitants of Leningrad voted to return the city to its original name - St. Petersburg.
1994 - Austria decided to join the European Union by referendum.
- Boris Yeltsin, by his decree, gives state significance to June 12 - the Day of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Russia
1999 - a battalion of Russian paratroopers made a march from the base of peacekeeping forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina to Kosovo, covering more than 600 km in 7.5 hours, and occupied the Slatina airport before NATO troops.
2000 - Akhmat Kadyrov was appointed head of the administration of the Chechen Republic.
2008 - the people of Ireland in a referendum rejected the Treaty of Lisbon - a lighter version of the European Constitution.
2009 - All US television stations switch from analogue to digital broadcasting.

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Memorial Day of St. Isaac the Confessor Abbot of Dalmatia.

The Monk Isaac, having taken tonsure, settled in the wilderness. When there was a persecution of Christians, he came to Constantinople. Turning to the emperor with a request to open the temples, he was refused and was thrown into a deep ravine. But he remained alive, and predicted death for the emperor. Isaac's prophecy came true, and the emperor was soon killed. A monastery was built in the city, where Isaac became abbot and spiritual mentor. He died in 383.

Memorial Day of Onufry the Great, an early Christian saint, an Egyptian hermit of the 4th century. He is revered as a saint in the Orthodox (Comm. June 12 according to the Julian calendar), Catholic (Comm. June 12) and ancient Eastern churches. There is an Orthodox tradition to consecrate cemetery churches in his honor.

folk tradition

Day of Isaac. Isaac. Isaac the Serpent. Isaac Bobov. Isakiy Zmeevnik. Serpent holiday.

In the people this day is considered serpentine. According to popular belief, on this day snakes "walk through the forests in villages" and it is very dangerous to kill them. They are ready to take revenge on everyone they meet without mercy. From the bite of snakes "not a single sorcerer can speak." "Snakes go by train to snake weddings."

It is customary to plant beans on the day of Isaac. Beans must be pre-soaked in winter water. They are imprisoned with a verdict: "Get ugly, beans, both large and large, for all shares, for old and small, baptized for the whole world."

There may be last frosts on the soil. Blooming linden, emitting a honey fragrance. Small-leaved linden blooms earlier than large-leaved and is more durable. Linden lives up to 400 years. Late flowering bird cherry. Flowering wild rose, jasmine. Potatoes are starting to bloom.

Early varieties of strawberries begin to bear fruit. The last watering of sea buckthorn and onions. Top dressing of cucumbers, cabbage, it would be nice to have carrots, infusion of bird droppings. Grafting (budding) of fruit trees, roses.

For the treatment of snake bites, some herbs are traditionally used: Vladimirians apply chewed lovage root and horns to the wound; in Siberia - zhovnik, in other places - lungwort, grated fresh horse sorrel root.

Birthdays: Isakiy.

Developments

June 12, 1943, on the eve of Battle of Kursk, Sidor Kovpak's Sumy unit, on the orders of the Central Headquarters of the partisan movement, began its famous Carpathian raid in the deepest rear of the enemy. During the raid, the Kovpakovites defeated the German garrisons and Bendery detachments in forty settlements in Western Ukraine. Destroying transport communications, the partisans managed for a long time to block important directions for the transport of Nazi troops and military equipment to the fronts of the Kursk Bulge.

June 12, 1968 released in the USA movie "Rosemary's Baby", which became the first picture of Roman Polanski (Polyansky), shot by him in Hollywood. The adaptation of Ira Levin's bestseller starred Mia Farrow.

June 12, 1981 released in the US first Indiana Jones adventure film- Raiders of the Lost Ark directed by Steven Spielberg.

June 12, 1990, 25 years ago, The Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR adopted the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of Russia. Since 1994, it has been celebrated in Russia as a public holiday, which in 1998 was named Day of Russia.

June 12, 1994 passed the first four-hour test flight of an American passenger aircraft "Boeing 777", launched from the factory airfield in Everett, Washington.

June 12, 1999 NATO peacekeepers entered Pristina under the command of British General Michael Jackson. The concert failed: 200 Russian paratroopers ended up at the Slatina airport, marching to the Kosovo capital from Bosnia. The West was in shock.