What holiday is celebrated on December 1: all about the first day of winter

On December 1, Orthodox believers honor the memory of the prophet Nahum and the righteous Philaret the Merciful. Anton, Dmytro, Naum and Porfiria celebrate their name days.

The world celebrates World AIDS Day, Neurologist Day, Put on a Dress Day, Christmas Book Day, and in Ukraine - Prosecutors' Day. OBOZ.UA tells about the holidays and significant events of this day.

What holidays are celebrated on December 1

December 1, according to the New Julian calendar, is the day of remembrance of St. Nahum. Nahum was an Old Testament prophet who lived in the 7th century BC in Galilee. In his book, he predicted the destruction of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian kingdom. In Orthodoxy, Nahum is also considered the patron saint of the sciences and literacy.

Philaret the Merciful is an Orthodox saint who lived in the 8th century in Byzantium. Filaret was noted for his kindness, humility, and compassion for the poor and suffering. According to legend, Filaret was the grandfather of Mary, who became the Queen of Byzantium. Having inherited wealth from his daughter, he gave it all away as charity. Filaret died a peaceful death in a monastery in Constantinople, where he was buried with honors and respect.

In 1987, James W. Boone and Thomas Netter, who worked for the Global AIDS Program, proposed the idea of organizing a World AIDS Day. The symbol of the fight against AIDS is the red ribbon, as a personification of understanding and solidarity.

On December 1, prosecutors celebrate their professional holiday. In accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine, the functions of the prosecutor's office are primarily in line with the position of building a state governed by the rule of law. Given the role of the prosecutor's office in strengthening the rule of law, protecting human and civil rights, and their contribution to the formation of Ukraine as a state governed by the rule of law, a presidential decree of 2000 established the professional holiday.

Other countries around the world also celebrate December 1:

• Unification Day in Romania;
• Rosa Parks Day in Ohio and Oregon;
• Day of Restoration of Independence of Portugal;
• Movie Day in Japan;
• Self-Government Day in Iceland;
• National Fried Pie Day and Eat Red Apples Day in the United States.

Notable historical events on December 1

• 1408 - Tatar Khan Edigei lays siege to Moscow.
• 1783 - the first human flight in a hydrogen-filled balloon was made in Paris by physicist Jacques Alexandre César Charles.
• 1822 - 11-year-old Franz Liszt makes his musical debut in Vienna.
• 1835 - the first book of fairy tales by Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen was published.
• 1863 - it was decided to ban football players from running on the field with the ball in their hands.
• 1887 - writer Arthur Conan Doyle publishes the story "A Study in Scarlet", and Sherlock Holmes appears for the first time.

• 1891 - American James Naismith invented basketball.
• 1913 - a continuous assembly line (conveyor) was introduced at Ford's factories (USA), from which a car began to roll off every 2 hours and 38 minutes.
• 1939 - the Soviet-Finnish War: The Soviet Union announced the creation of a puppet "government" of the non-existent "Finnish Democratic Republic" on its territory, headed by communist O. V. Kuusinen.
• 1955 - the beginning of the movement against racial segregation in the United States.
• 1959 - 12 countries (Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Great Britain, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, the USSR and the United States) signed a treaty in Washington on the peaceful scientific use of Antarctica.
• 1990 - British and French construction workers met under the English Channel to dig the first-ever underground tunnel across the strait.

• 1991 - More than 90% of the 32 million Ukrainian citizens who took part in the All-Ukrainian referendum on December 1, 1991, voted in favor of the independence of their country.
• 2012 - the Ukrainian Charter of a Free Man is promulgated.
• 2013 - in response to an attempt to disperse Euromaidan by force, a million-strong demonstration in Kyiv, clashes near the Presidential Administration of Ukraine, and the beginning of the Revolution of Dignity.

Who was born on December 1

• 1595 - (according to one hypothesis) Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Hetman of Ukraine.
• 1743 - Martin Klaproth, German chemist, discoverer of the chemical elements uranium and zirconium.
• 1761 - Marie Tussauds, Frenchwoman who created the famous Wax Museum in London.
• 1859 - Yukhym Sichynsky, Ukrainian historian, educator, public figure.
• 1864 - Carsten Borchgravenk, Norwegian navigator, in 1895 the first in history to land on the shores of Antarctica.

• 1918 - Platon Mayboroda, Ukrainian composer, songwriter.
• 1935 - Woody Allen (Allan Stuart Koenigsberg), American actor, film director and screenwriter.

Died on this day:

• 1866 - George Everest, British surveyor. He made a topographic survey of India and was the first to determine the height of the world's largest peak, Jomolungma, which was named Everest in his honor.
• 1900 - Serhii Korzhynskyi, botanist, geneticist, evolutionist, one of the founders of phytocoenology.
• 1947 - Godfrey Hardy, English mathematician.
• 1964 - John Goldane, British biologist, member of the Royal Society of London.
• 1986 - Yuriy Tymoshenko (Tarapunka), Ukrainian pop artist.
• 2014 - Yevhen Sverstiuk, Ukrainian writer and philosopher.

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