What holiday is celebrated on January 13: interesting facts

On January 13, Orthodox believers honor the memory of the holy martyrs Ermil and Stratonik. Name days are celebrated by Opanas, Elizar, Maksym, Petro, and Yakiv.

The world celebrates the Old New Year, the Day of Realization of Dreams (or Make Your Dream Come True Day), and the World Day Against Depression. OBOZ.UA tells about the holidays and significant events of this day.

What holidays are celebrated on January 13

Before the transition to the New Julian calendar, the Old New Year was associated with the traditions of giving and sowing. From now on, the Malanka holiday was moved to December 31, and St. Basil's Day to January 1. Since the Old New Year is not a church holiday, it can still be celebrated, but without carols and sowing.

The paradox of the Old New Year arose in 1918 after the transition from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. In fact, the New Year was celebrated twice. It is worth noting that Orthodox Church holidays continued to be celebrated in the old style for more than a century, and they shifted only in 2023 after the transition to the New Julian calendar.

On January 13, according to the new style, the holy martyrs Ermil and Stratonik are commemorated as examples of Christian faith and courage. Hyrmylus was a deacon who refused to worship pagan gods and was severely tortured for it. His friend Stratonikus, seeing the suffering of Ermil, also openly recognized himself as a Christian and shared the fate of his friend. Both martyrs were subjected to terrible torture and eventually died a martyr's death.

January 13 is also the World Day Against Depression. It is an annual event dedicated to raising awareness of depression as a serious illness that requires treatment. The day reminds us of the need to support people suffering from this disorder and fight the stigma that often accompanies depression.

By the way, January 13 is also known as the Day of Realizing Dreams. It's a great time to sit down and make an action plan to help turn your dreams into reality.

Countries around the world celebrate January 13:

• Father's Day according to the Islamic tradition;
• Constitution Day in Mongolia;
• Democracy Day in Cape Verde;
• Day of Freedom Defenders in Lithuania;
• Liberation Day in Togo;
• Samsung Electronics Day;
• National Aviation Day in Thailand;
• National Day of Hypersensitivity in France.

Notable historical events on January 13

• 1610 - Galileo Galilei discovered the fourth moon of Jupiter, later named Callisto.
• 1854 - Faas Anthony from Philadelphia patented a new musical instrument - the accordion.
• 1910 - the first public radio broadcast was made from New York, featuring the voices of Enrico Caruso and other stars of the Metropolitan Opera.
• 1942 - the forced deportation of the Ukrainian population to Germany (Ostarbeiters) began.
• 1943 - A. Hitler issued a directive on the total mobilization of material and human resources in Germany.

• 1989 - computers throughout the UK were first paralyzed by the Friday the 13th virus, also known as Jerusalem.
• 1991 - In the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, a KGB Alpha unit stormed the city's television center and TV tower, killing 15 Lithuanians and one special forces officer. In Lithuania, this day is celebrated as the Day of Defense of Freedom.
• 1993 - In Paris, representatives of 130 countries signed the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction.
• 2010 - The Kyiv Court of Appeal acknowledged that Stalin, Molotov, Kaganovich, Postyshev, Kosior, Chubar, and Khatayevych organized the genocide of some Ukrainians, but closed the case due to their deaths.
• 2012 - the Costa Concordia cruise ship with 4,234 people crashes off the coast of Italy. 30 people died, two went missing.
• 2015 - a terrorist attack near Volnovakha during the Russian armed aggression against Ukraine.

Who was born on January 13

• 1827 - Mykola Beketov, Ukrainian physicist and chemist, professor of chemistry at Kharkiv University (1855-1887), founded the Kharkiv School of Physics and Chemistry. Father of Ukrainian architect Oleksii Beketov. Brother of the botanist Andrii Beketov.
• 1859 - Costis Palamas, Greek poet, fiction writer and critic. Founder of the New Athenian School.
• 1864 - Win Wilhelm, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1911) for his research on the phenomena of radiation and absorption by an absolutely black body (Wien's law).
• 1875 - Volodymyr Singalevych, Ukrainian political and public figure, lawyer.
• 1877 - Levko Matsievych, Ukrainian design engineer, inventor, politician; the first Ukrainian aviator.

• 1894 - Yevhen Onatskyi, leading member of the OUN, public figure, journalist and scholar.
• 1904 - Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian and American violin virtuoso of Jewish descent.
• 1977 - Orlando Bloom, English film actor.

Died on this day:

• 1625 - Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish Baroque painter.
• 1833 - Andrii Melenskyi, the first chief architect of Kyiv.
• 1940 - Mykhailo Sitenko, Ukrainian orthopedic surgeon and traumatologist, whose name is given to the Ukrainian Research Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology in Kharkiv.
• 1941 - James Joyce, Irish writer, novelist and innovator of the 20th century.
• 1946 - Joe Keaton, American comedy actor.
• 2013 - Mykhailo Horyn, Ukrainian human rights activist, dissident and political prisoner of the Soviet era.

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