What holiday falls on November 12: calendar of events

On November 12 , Orthodox believers honor the memory of the holy martyr Josaphat. Name days are celebrated by Ivan, Oleksandr, Yosyp, Leonid, Maksym, Stepan, Olena and Anastasiya.

The world celebrates the Day of the Security Specialist, Odd Socks Day, World Pneumonia Day, and International Ergonomics Day. OBOZ.UA tells about the holidays and significant events of this day.

What holidays are celebrated on November 12

November 12, according to the New Julian calendar, is the day of remembrance of the holy martyr Josaphat, a Ukrainian saint whose real name was Ivan Kuntsevich. He was born in 1580 in Volodymyr-Volynskyi and showed piety from an early age. Seeing this extraordinary zeal in the service of God, many people converted to Christianity. In 1604, he took the monastic state, entering the Holy Trinity Monastery, and took the name Josaphat. The saint was martyred for the unity of all Christians.

November 12 is World Pneumonia Day. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization announced November 12, 2009, as the day of the beginning of a large-scale campaign to fight childhood pneumonia. The WHO and UNICEF have launched a campaign to raise funds to treat children in dozens of developing countries, mainly in Asia and Africa, from this disease.

Also, countries around the world celebrate November 12:

• Argentine Anti-Obesity Day;
• World Antibiotic Awareness Week;
• National Book Day in Mexico.

Notable historical events on November 12

• 1871 - Marko Kropyvnytskyi, a Ukrainian actor and director, made his debut in Odesa.
• 1893 - the first story by 17-year-old John Griffith (Jack London) is published in the San Francisco Morning Call.
• 1918 - Hetman of Ukraine Pavlo Skoropadskyi legalized the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
• 1918 - Austria was proclaimed a republic.
• 1922 - the Kyiv Art Gallery was opened.
• 1967 - The First World Congress of Free Ukrainians was held in New York.
• 1992 - the Ukrainian karbovanets became the only legal tender, which was represented in cash circulation by a coupon of the National Bank of Ukraine.
• 2009 - an academy was held in Kharkiv at the premises of the Union of Ukrainian Youth, where the Day of the Ukrainian-language press was proclaimed and celebrated for the first time.
• 2014 - on this day, for the first time in history, a spacecraft was launched to the surface of a comet (Churyumov-Gerasimenko).

Who was born on November 12

• 1808 - Osyp Bodiansky, writer, ethnographer, researcher and publisher of ancient Slavic historical works.
• 1840 - Auguste Rodin, French impressionist sculptor.
• 1885 - Mykhailo Sitenko, Ukrainian orthopedic surgeon and traumatologist, whose name is given to the Ukrainian Research Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology in Kharkiv.
• 1929 - Grace Kelly, American actress, wife of Prince Rainier III of Monaco since 1956.
• 1936 - Mykola Syngaevsky, Ukrainian poet, writer, and translator.
• 1980 - Ryan Gosling, Canadian film actor.

Died on this day:

• 1903 - Camille Pissarro, French painter of the 19th century, representative of Impressionism.
• 1916 - Percival Lovell, American astronomer.

• 1941 - Kost Levytsky, Ukrainian public and political figure, politician, publicist, lawyer, head of the government of the Western Ukrainian Republic in 1918-19.
• 1981 - William Golden, American actor, Academy Award winner.
• 2007 - Ira Levine, American novelist, science fiction writer, playwright and songwriter.
• 2018 - Stan Lee, American writer, editor and publisher. Editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics.

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