What holiday is celebrated on October 7: memorable events

On October 7, Orthodox believers honor the memory of the martyrs Sergius and Bacchus. Anton, Vladyslav, David, Serhiy, Semen, Stepan and Tekla celebrate their name days.

On October 7, the world celebrates World Cotton Day, Architecture Day, World Habitat Day (World Housing Day), and World Bullying Prevention Day. OBOZ.UA tells about the holidays and significant events of this day.

What holidays are celebrated on October 7

October 7, according to the New Julian calendar, is the day of remembrance of the martyrs Sergius and Bacchus. They lived in the second century in the Roman Empire and were soldiers in the army of Galerius Maximianus. Sergius and Bacchus held quite high positions and were even favorites of the army commander-in-chief. However, these were times of severe persecution of Christians, and Sergius and Bacchus secretly professed their faith in Christ. Upon learning of this, the emperor ordered the men to worship pagan idols, otherwise they would be tortured. The soldiers did not betray their faith: Bacchus died of severe torture, and Sergius was later beheaded.

The weather on this day was used to predict whether frost would soon come. If it was frosty on St. Sergius and Bacchus' Day, then in November we should expect real snowfall.

World Architect's Day is celebrated annually on the first Monday of October. The holiday was established by the International Union of Architects in 1985. In Ukraine, Architect's Day falls on July 1.

The World Cotton Day initiative was launched in 2019. The four largest cotton producers in Africa - Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali, also known as the "Cotton Four" - proposed to the WTO to celebrate World Cotton Day on October 7.

There are also other celebrations around the world on October 7:

• Book Day in Spain;
• World Baldness Day;
• Children's Health Day in the United States;
• Library Week in the UK.

Notable historical events on October 7

• 1253 - coronation of Prince Danylo Romanovych of Galicia-Volhynia.
• 1806 - copy paper is patented in the UK for the first time.
• 1913 - Henry Ford's plant in Detroit was the first in the world to carry out the entire production process of assembling cars using a new technological scheme - on a conveyor belt.
• 1918 - Russian-Ukrainian peace talks are interrupted due to disagreements over the territorial affiliation of Donbas and Crimea.
• 1944 - The United States, the USSR, the United Kingdom, and China agree to replace the League of Nations with the United Nations.
• 1950 - UN troops entered the territory of North Korea.
• 1952 - a patent for a barcode was granted.
• 2001 - the first helicopter of independent Ukraine, the AK1-3, took to the skies.
• 2001 - In response to the September 11 attacks, U.S. troops launched Operation Retaliation, launching missile and bomb attacks on strategic Taliban positions in Afghanistan.

Who was born on October 7

• 1885 - Niels Bohr, Danish theoretical physicist, creator of the first quantum theory of the structure of the atom.
• 1885 - Yevhen Karol Chervinsky, Ukrainian architect.
• 1903 - Volodymyr Dukelsky (Vernon Duke), Ukrainian and American composer, poet and writer.
• 1926 - Avksentiy Yakivchuk, Ukrainian folklorist, ethnographer, publicist.
• 1932 - Yevhen Neyko, founder of the Carpathian school of therapists, academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine.
• 1967 - Toni Braxton, American pop singer.
• 1989 - Bizhan Sharopov, Ukrainian biologist and biophysicist, participant of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Hero of Ukraine.

Died on this day:

• 1747 - Vasyl Hryhorovych Barsky, Ukrainian traveler and writer.
• 1849 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer.
• 1984 - Valeriy Marchenko, Ukrainian dissident human rights activist, literary critic and translator.
• 2009 - Irving Penn, American photographer.

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