What holiday is celebrated on November 19: events on this day

On November 19, Orthodox believers honor the memory of St. Abdiy. Anatoliy, Arseniy, Vasyl, Viktor, Havrylo, Danylo, Nina, Oleksandr and Serafym celebrate their name days.

The world celebrates World Citizen's Day, International Whole Grains Day, International Men's Day, Women Entrepreneurs Day, World Day for the Prevention of Violence against Children, Glass Industry Workers Day, and in Ukraine - the Day of Hydrometeorological Service Workers. OBOZ.UA tells about the holidays and significant events of this day.

What holidays are celebrated on November 19

November 19, according to the New Julian calendar, is the day of remembrance of St. Abednego, who lived during the first defeat of the Jewish kingdom. Habakkuk set an example of a righteous and pious life. When the emperors began to persecute Christians, Abednego helped the believers, hiding them in the caves of the ministers and carrying them food. He is also considered a prophet.

On November 19, Ukraine celebrates the Day of Hydrometeorological Service Workers, established by a presidential decree of March 11, 2003. The State Hydrometeorological Service plays a key role in obtaining data on current and expected hydrometeorological conditions, the current climate, its possible fluctuations and changes in the future.

International Men's Day is celebrated to draw attention to gender discrimination against men in determining the importance of their role in the family and raising children.

Also, countries around the world celebrate November 19:

• Prince's Day in the Principality of Monaco;
• National Camping Day in the United States;
• Flag Day in Brazil;
• National Soup Day in Germany.

Notable historical events on November 19

• 1190 - the Teutonic Order was founded
• 1493 - Christopher Columbus discovered the island of Puerto Rico.
• 1626 - A church brotherhood and a school were founded in Nemyriv.
• 1916 - Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary granted autonomy to Eastern Galicia.
• 1919 - The US Senate voted against the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, forcing the United States to withdraw from the League of Nations.
• 1921 - Ukrmet, the central meteorological service of Ukraine, is established.

• 1942 - The Soviet counteroffensive near Stalingrad began.
• 1946 - UN General Assembly Resolution against Religious and Racial Persecution is adopted.
• 1947 - Transair Sweden's Douglas DC-3 crashes in Santa Maria del Monte Scala (Italy).
• 1949 - Prince Rainier III of Monaco is crowned.
• 1965 - the UN General Assembly adopts a resolution on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons at the initiative of the USSR.
• 1989 - the remains of members of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group are reburied from the cemetery of the Perm region concentration camp to the Baikove cemetery in Kyiv: Vasyl Stus, Yuriy Lytvyn, and Oleksa Tykhyi.
• 1997 - The expedition of an international crew aboard the American reusable space shuttle Columbia began, in which Leonid Kadeniuk, the first astronaut of independent Ukraine, participated along with astronauts from the United States and Japan.

• 2005 - The U.S. Senate supports a bill to lift trade restrictions on Ukraine, known as the Jackson-Vanik Amendment.
• 2012 - a new Criminal Procedure Code came into force in Ukraine.

Who was born on November 19

• 1840 - Alexander Kovalevsky, Ukrainian and Russian biologist and embryologist.
• 1887 - James Batcheller Sumner, American biochemist who proved the protein nature of enzymes, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946).
• 1909 - Peter Drucker, American economist, the "father" of modern management theory.
• 1915 - Earl Sutherland, American physiologist, Nobel Prize winner (1971).
• 1917 - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India in 1966-77, 1980-84.
• 1942 - Calvin Klein, American fashion designer, trendsetter.
• 1961 - Meg Ryan, American actress and film producer.
• 1962 - Jodie Foster, American actress.
• 2005 - Geetanjali Rao, American inventor, contributed to solving the problem of clean water shortage in the world.

Died on this day:

• 1698 - Petro Doroshenko, Hetman of Ukraine.
• 1828 - Franz Peter Schubert, Austrian composer, one of the founders of Romanticism in music.
• 1942 - Bruno Schulz, a prominent Galician writer and graphic artist of Jewish origin from Drohobych.
• 2009 - Roman Bezpalkiv, Ukrainian painter. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
• 2013 - Frederick Sanger, British biochemist, two-time Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.
• 2017 - Vasyl Ruban, Ukrainian writer, dissident, member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine.

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