What holiday is celebrated in Ukraine and the world on October 27: all about this day

On October 27, Orthodox believers honor the memory of the holy martyr Nestor and the holy martyrs Capetolina and her slave Hierothea. Andriy, Valentyn, Mark and Nestor celebrate their namesakes according to the new style, and Hnat, Kuzma, Maksymilian, Mykhaylo, Nazar, Petro, Paraskoviya according to the old style.

On October 27, daylight saving time was changed to winter time - clocks should be set back one hour. The world celebrates the World Running Day, the Day of Capricious Colleagues, Mother-in-Law's Day, and in Ukraine - the Day of Ukrainian Writing and Language and the Day of Motorist and Road Worker. OBOZ.UA tells about the holidays and significant events of this day.

What holidays are celebrated on October 27

October 15, according to the New Julian calendar, is the day of remembrance of St. Nestor the Chronicler. Nestor was a writer-hagiographer, a monk of the Kyiv Cave Monastery, and lived in the late 11th and early 12th centuries. Nestor was born in Kyiv, and at the age of 17 he decided to become a monk, taking the vows of the Pechersk Monastery. Later he became a deacon. It was Nestor who wrote the Tale of Bygone Years, based on various ancient sources, stories of old-timers, and stories of the people.

The Day of Ukrainian Writing and Language was established by a presidential decree in 1997 and is celebrated annually in honor of the chronicler Nestor, a follower of the creators of the Slavic written language, Cyril and Methodius. Linguistic historians say that the written Ukrainian language began with St. Nestor the Chronicler.

The Day of Motorists and Road Builders is celebrated annually on the last Sunday of October. The holiday was established in Ukraine in support of the initiative of road transport and road workers in accordance with Presidential Decree No. 452/93 of October 13, 1993.

Other countries around the world also celebrate October 27:

• American Beer Day;
• Black Cat Appreciation Day in the UK;
• Grandparents' Day in Australia;
• Flag Day in Greece.

Notable historical events on October 27

• 1654 - 50,000 troops of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, led by Crown Hetman Stanisław Potocki, set off for Podillia and Bratslav.
• 1662 - King Charles II of England sold Dunkirk to the Kingdom of France.
• 1882 - the first professional national realistic theater in the Ukrainian lands was founded under the direction of M. L. Kropyvnytskyi.
• 1904 - the New York City subway opened.
• 1951 - radiation is used for the first time in cancer treatment.
• 1962 - a U-2 reconnaissance plane of the US Air Force is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet anti-aircraft missile. The pilot, Major Rudolph Anderson, was killed. This is the so-called "Black Saturday" of October 27, the day when the world was closest to a global nuclear war. 1982 - China announced that its population exceeded 1 billion.
• 2017 - Catalonia declared independence from Spain.

Who was born on October 27

• 1728 - James Cook, British navigator, leader of three round-the-world expeditions, discoverer of New Zealand and Hawaii.
• 1782 - Niccolo Paganini, Italian violinist and composer, author of six concertos.
• 1811 - Isaac Singer, American inventor of the sewing machine.
• 1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States.
• 1952 - Roberto Benigni, Italian actor and director.
• 1957 - Francis Fukuyama, American philosopher, political economist and publicist of Japanese descent.

Died on this day:

• 1114 - Nestor the Chronicler, monk of the Kyiv Cave Monastery, historian of the Middle Ages, author of the 1st edition of the Tale of Bygone Years, the lives of Princes Borys and Hlib, and Theodosius of the Caves.
• 1675 - Gilles Person de Roberval, a prominent French mathematician, mechanic, astronomer, and physicist.

• 1975 - Rex Stout, American writer of the detective genre. Author of a series of books about Nero Wolfe.
• 1979 - Yevhen Onatskyi, Ukrainian public figure, leading member of the OUN, journalist and scholar.
• 1980 - John van Fleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics.

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