What holiday is celebrated on September 3: all about this day

On September 3, Orthodox believers honor the memory of the holy martyr Antimas, Bishop of Nicodemus. On this day, those named Andrei, Vasily, Vladimir, Ivan, Ilya, Konstantin, Alexei, Peter, Roman, Sergei, and Vasilisa should be congratulated on their angel's day.

The world celebrates European Motorcycle Week, World Hygiene Day and Skyscraper Day. OBOZ.UA tells about the holidays and notable events of this day.

What holidays are celebrated on September 3

According to the New Julian calendar, September 3 is the day of remembrance of the holy martyr Antimas, Bishop of Nicodemus. Antimus lived in the third century in the city of Nicomedia (now Izmit, Turkey). He became a bishop in 293. Antimus lived during the reigns of the emperors Diocletian and Maximian, when there were massive persecutions of Christians and particularly cruel executions. Antimus did not renounce his faith and supported in every way those who remained faithful to Christ despite the persecution. The bishop was martyred by beheading in 302.

The European Motorcycle Week traditionally begins on the first Tuesday of September and lasts until the end of the week. Most of the action takes place in the vicinity of Faaker See (an alpine lake in Carinthia, Austria). European Bike Week is the largest gathering of motorcyclists from all over the world. The festival was launched in 1998.

September 3 also marks:

• World Hygiene Day;
• Flag Day in Australia;
• Merchant Marine Day in the UK;
• Day of the Republic of San Marino
• National Army Day in Moldova.

Notable historical events on September 3

• 1189 - Richard the Lionheart was crowned to the English throne.
• 1609 - the navigator Henry Hudson discovered the harbor around which the city of New York later emerged.
• 1783 - the American War of Independence, which had been going on since 1775, ended.
• 1838 - The Institute of Noble Girls was opened in Kyiv.
• 1864 - an explosion in Stockholm destroyed Alfred Nobel's laboratory. His younger brother Emil was killed in the explosion. Nobel later received a patent for the discovery of dynamite.
• 1914 - Mary Phelps Jacobs invented the bra.
• 1939 - Great Britain and France entered the war with the Third Reich.
• 1953 - The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms came into force.

• 1971 - The USSR, Great Britain, the United States and France signed an agreement on the status of West Berlin.
• 2005 - The Ukrainian national football team won the right to play in the World Cup for the first time in its history.
• 2014 - Russian militants destroyed the village of Peremoha in the Luhansk region by shelling it with Smerch rocket launchers. As a result of the bombing, the military base of the 3rd Battalion of Territorial Defense of Lviv Region "Volia" was destroyed.

Who was born on September 3

• 1856 - Louis Sullivan, creator of the first skyscrapers.
• 1862 - Oleksandr Tarkovsky, Ukrainian poet, writer, journalist, public figure.
• 1869 - Fritz Pregl, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize winner in 1923.
• 1905 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist, discoverer of the positron.
• 1953 - Jean-Pierre Jeunet, French film director ("Amélie", "Long Engagement").

Died on this day:

• 1658 - Oliver Cromwell, leader of the English Civil War.
• 1988 - Aron Utevsky, Ukrainian biochemist.
• 2012 - Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor, known for the role of John Coffey in the film adaptation of The Green Mile.

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