What holiday is celebrated on September 12

Although there are no official holidays on the calendar on September 12, this does not mean that there are no reasons to celebrate today. For example, name days are celebrated on this day by Valerian, Erofiy, Ilya, Leontiy, Lukyan, Mykola, Oleksandr, Petro, Stefan, and Julian.

OBOZ.UA tells you what other holidays and significant dates are celebrated on September 12. And also what historical figures were born on this day.

Holidays on September 12

Computer and Programmer Day is usually celebrated on September 13. But since this year is a leap year, the date has shifted slightly. The thing is that the holiday is celebrated on the 256th day of the year. The number 256 (which is two to the eighth power) was chosen because it is the number of numbers that can be expressed with one byte.

Video Game Day - You can criticize video games as much as you want for the amount of time people spend playing them. However, it is impossible not to recognize that they have long become a separate art form, and in terms of the amount of money invested, they have even surpassed cinema. Video games allow us to immerse ourselves in fantasy worlds, inspire us and advance high technology. In addition, they increase people's happiness. And this, you will agree, is also quite important.

"Are you okay?" Day was invented in Australia and is celebrated on the second Thursday of September. Its mission is to teach us to pay more attention to each other and give support to those who are going through difficult times.

Encouragement Day - by a strange coincidence, the same date falls on the invented US Day of Encouragement. From time to time, we all need warm words to help us gather ourselves and inspire us to take action. Say them to your loved ones today and the answer will not be long in coming.

International Crochet Day - needlework is considered one of the best hobbies. It helps to calm down, develop attention and concentration, and ultimately gives us many beautiful things. Of course, this is also true for crochet.

Historical events on September 12

490 BC - the Battle of Marathon took place, during the Greco-Persian War, Greek troops under the command of Miltiades defeated the troops of Darius I.

1504 - Christopher Columbus sailed from America to Spain on his fourth and final voyage.

1683 - The Battle of Vienna took place, as a result of which the combined army of the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, led by Jan III Sobieski, defeated the Ottoman army.

1789 - French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat published the first issue of the newspaper "Friend of the People".

1898 - Kyiv Polytechnic Institute is opened in Kyiv.

1934 - the political union of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia (the so-called Baltic Entente) is formed.

1937 - The NKVD of the USSR launched a large-scale operation to "eliminate criminal elements."

1940 - near the village of Montignac (France), four local teenagers found a cave-grotto with wall paintings dating back 15-17 thousand years, now considered one of the best collections of prehistoric Stone Age paintings.

1944 - the first American troops entered Germany.

1953 - six months after the death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev was elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR.

1958 - Texas Instruments created and tested the first microchip.

1990 - the final settlement agreement with Germany is signed.

1991 - the monument in honor of the October Revolution on Independence Square was dismantled in Kyiv.

2008 - the first concert of the band Queen in Ukraine took place in Kharkiv, attended by about 350 thousand people.

Celebrities born on September 12

1494 - Francis I, French king of the Valois dynasty (d. 1547).

1554 - Janusz Ostrozkyi, Volyn voivode (1584-1593), Krakow castellan (1593-1620), Bila Tserkva, Cherkasy, Kaniv, Pereiaslav (1594-1620), and Volodymyr starosta (1604-11620). He was the founder of the Ostroh Majorate.

1825 - Karl Doppler, Hungarian virtuoso flutist, conductor, music director, composer, born in Lviv, younger brother of composer Franz Doppler and father of composer Arpad Doppler.

1838 - Arthur Auvers, German astronomer.

1875 - Oleksandr Koshyts, Ukrainian composer, conductor, ethnographer.

1892 - Yurii Korpaniuk, Hutsul folk master of wood carving.

1897 - Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, winner of the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (together with her husband Frederic Joliot).

1900 - Gaskell Curry, American mathematician and logician. Two programming languages were named in his honor: Curry and Haskell.

1921 - Stanislaw Lem, Polish science fiction writer.

1956 - Leslie Chun, Hong Kong actor and singer.

1957 - Hans Zimmer, German film composer.

1961 - Milene Farmer, French singer, composer, actress.

1965 - Yevhen Alipov, Ukrainian ice hockey player and coach.

1973 - Paul Walker, American actor, model, race car driver, philanthropist.

1986 - Emmy Rossum, American actress.

1994 - Kim Namjoon, better known as RM, South Korean singer, songwriter and producer.

1994 - Elina Svitolina, Ukrainian tennis player.

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