What holiday is celebrated on August 26

On August 26, Orthodox believers honor the memory of the martyrs Andrian and Natalia. The world celebrates International Actors' Day, International Dog Day, and Women's Equality Day in the United States.

On this day, those named Alexei, Vasily, Ivan, Konstantin, Maxim, Nikolai, Andian, Jan, Ksenia, Oksana, and Natalia are celebrating their birthdays. OBOZ.UA tells about the holidays and significant events of this day.

What holidays are celebrated on August 26

August 26 is the International Day of Actors. This is one of the oldest creative professions of mankind. It is worth congratulating actors who work in cinema or theater and, thanks to their talent, give the audience joy and vivid emotions. The holiday is celebrated in honor of St. Ginés. He was an actor who lived in Rome in the third century. During a performance depicting a baptism, he got so into the role that he declared himself a true Christian. After that, he was tortured and beheaded, because it was an era of persecution and persecution of Christians. Later, the Catholic Church named him the patron saint of theater.

On August 26, World Dog Day is celebrated with the support of the International Fund for Animal Welfare. The holiday was founded in 2004 by animal rights activist Collen Page, who was also a dog trainer and writer. The date was chosen by Page in honor of his first dog, Shelly, the day the four-legged friend joined their family.

The world also celebrates the following holidays:

• Toilet Paper Day;
• Women's Equality Day in the United States;
• Namibia Day;
• Solidarity Day in Argentina;
• International Dengue Day.

Notable historical events on August 26

• 1657 - Ivan Vyhovsky is elected Hetman of Ukraine in Chyhyryn (until Yuriy Khmelnytsky comes of age).
• 1728 - Vitus Bering opens a strait between Asia and America (Bering Strait)
• 1791 - American John Fitch patented a steamer.
• 1939 - the Second Great Assembly of Ukrainian Nationalists takes place in Rome, which approves the political program of the OUN.

• 1945 - The Ukrainian SSR ratified the UN Charter.
• 1946 - George Orwell's book Animal Farm was published.
• 1972 - The XX Olympic Games opened in Munich. A terrorist attack against Israeli athletes takes place.
• 1992 - the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR decided to temporarily suspend the activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine (1991).

Who was born on August 26

• 1743 - Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, French scientist, one of the founders of modern chemistry.
• 1873 - Lee de Forest, American inventor, nicknamed the "father of radio" because he invented a tube detector and amplifier.
• 1880 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet.
• 1910 - Mother Teresa, Catholic nun, founder of charitable missions, Nobel Peace Prize winner.
• 1914 - Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer and poet, representative of the magical realism movement.

• 1966 - Shirley Manson, Scottish singer.
• 1970 - Melissa McCarthy, American actress.
• 1980 - Macaulay Culkin, American film actor.

Died on this day:

• 1989 - Irving Stone, American author.
• 1998 - Frederick Rines, American physicist, professor, Nobel Prize in Physics.
• 2017 - Tobey Hooper, American film director.

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