What holiday is celebrated on December 5: all about St. Nicholas Eve

On December 5, Orthodox believers honor the memory of St. Sava the Sanctified. Anastasia, Zachariah and Sava celebrate their name days.

The world celebrates International Volunteer Day, World Soil Day, Krampus Night, Bathtub Party Day, and International Ninja Day, and Ukraine celebrates Statistics Workers Day and Soil Scientist Day. OBOZ.UA tells about the holidays and significant events of this day.

What holidays are celebrated on December 5

November 26, according to the New Julian calendar, is the day of remembrance of St. Sava, who lived in the late IV - early V century. Sava grew up in a wealthy and pious family, and at the age of 8 he entered a monastery and became a strict companion there. At the age of 16, he traveled to Palestine to venerate the holy places, where he received a prediction about his ministry. Sava lived in caves and prayed constantly. Later, disciples began to flock to the righteous man from everywhere, and a whole monastery grew. Saul opened hospitals and shelters for the poor, and died at the age of 95.

In 1985, the UN General Assembly invited governments to celebrate the International Day of Volunteers for Economic and Social Development on December 5 every year.

Ukraine celebrates the Day of Statisticians. The date is associated with the first All-Ukrainian Population Census, the largest statistical work in 2001.

December 5 is the Day of Soil Scientist in Ukraine. The unofficial national professional holiday is timed to coincide with World Soil Day.

Other countries around the world also celebrate December 5:

• Opening Day in Haiti and the Dominican Republic;
• Bath Day or Bath Day;
• Krampus Night or Krampusnacht in Austria - held on the eve of St. Nicholas Day;
• National Day of Remembrance in France (in memory of those killed during the war in Algeria, battles in Morocco and Tunisia).

Notable historical events on December 5

• 1492 - During his first expedition, Christopher Columbus discovered the island of Santo Domingo (now Haiti). Before that, he discovered the Bahamas.
• 1848 - U.S. President James Polk confirmed the discovery of gold in California, which provoked the gold rush of 1849.
• 1854 - During the Crimean War, a battle took place near Inkerman, which ended in the defeat of the Russian Empire.
• 1879 - the first automatic telephone exchange (ATS) was patented in the United States.
• 1908 - the first American football match is held in Pittsburgh.
• 1917 - the Ukrainian Academy of Arts is opened.
• 1936 - the so-called "Stalinist" Constitution is adopted in the USSR.
• 1971 - a monument to Taras Shevchenko is unveiled in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 1976 - the world's largest magnetic separator is installed at the Southern Mining and Processing Plant (Kryvyi Rih).

• 1994 - In exchange for Ukraine's renunciation of nuclear weapons, a memorandum was signed in Budapest on providing Ukraine with security guarantees from the nuclear powers - the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia.
• 2001 - The first All-Ukrainian population census is launched.
• 2017 - The International Olympic Committee suspends the Russian national team from participating in the 2018 Olympic Games for doping.
• 2022 - The Japanese probe Hayabusa-2 delivered soil samples from the asteroid Ryugu to Earth.

Who was born on December 5

• 1782 - Martin van Buren, 8th President of the United States of America (1837-1841).
• 1878 - Oleksandr Oles (Kandyba), Ukrainian poet (d. 1944)
• 1901 - Walt Disney, American animator, director, producer.
• 1931 - Hryhoriy Tiutiunnyk, Ukrainian writer.
• 1966 - Patricia Kaas, French pop singer.

• 1973 - Dmytro Kolomiets, Major of the Ukrainian Air Force. Hero of Ukraine.
• 1999 - Vladyslav Petrovych Ukrainets, lieutenant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, participant of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Hero of Ukraine.

Died on this day:

• 1791 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (born 1756).
• 1859 - Louis Poinçot, French mathematician and mechanic.
• 1870 - Alexandre Dumas (father), French writer, author of numerous historical adventure novels.
• 1881 - Mykola Pirogov, Ukrainian and Russian surgeon, anatomist, and educator. The founder of military field surgery.
• 1926 - Claude Monet, French painter, founder of impressionism.
• 2013 - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa in 1994-1999, Nobel Peace Prize winner.

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