What holiday is celebrated on September 9: what was the day in history

On September 9, Orthodox believers honor the memory of the righteous saints Joachim and Anna and the holy martyr Severian. Name days are celebrated by Stepan, Oleksandra, Ivan, Yakym, Anna, Volodymyr, and Mykhailo.

The world celebrates International Sudoku Day, Testers' Day, Graphic Designer's Day in Ukraine, and Teddy Bear Day. OBOZ.UA tells about the holidays and significant events of this day.

What holidays are celebrated on September 9

September 9, according to the New Julian calendar, is the day of remembrance of Saints Joachim and Anna. The pious couple did not have children for a long time. Once Joachim went into the desert in sorrow to pray to the Lord. His wife Anna prayed as well, promising in her prayer that she would give her child to the temple for service. The archangel Gabriel appeared to the couple and told them the good news that they would soon have a daughter, whom they should name Mary. This was the first time the birth of the Virgin Mary was announced.

On this day, people have long gone to cemeteries to visit the graves of their deceased relatives.

The weather was used to predict what the fall and winter would be like. If there are a lot of spider webs flying around, we should expect a frosty winter and a mild autumn. If all the needles have not yet fallen off the larch, the winter will be very snowy, and if the leaves on the cherry tree are still green, the weather will be warm for a long time.

On September 9, testers all over the world celebrate their professional holiday, and in Ukraine, graphic designers also do. The history of this holiday is very interesting. On September 9, 1947, scientists at Harvard University faced a problem: the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator suddenly malfunctioned. They searched for a long time to find the cause of the breakdown and eventually found a butterfly stuck between the contacts of an electromechanical relay. According to the manual, the error was to be described in a technical diary. Grace Hopper, who discovered the butterfly, first used the word "debugging" (literally: getting rid of an insect). This is still the name of the process of identifying and fixing bugs.

This day is also celebrated:

• World First Aid Day;
• World Beauty Day;
• International Sudoku Day;
• Holocaust and Racial Crimes Remembrance Day in Slovakia;
• California State Day in the United States.

Notable historical events on September 9

• 1834 - Classes at Kyiv University began for the first time at the first faculty of the newly created university - the Faculty of Philosophy.
• 1850 - California is admitted to the United States as the 31st state.
• 1920 - Kyiv Aviation Plant is founded.
• 1944 - The USSR and Poland signed an agreement on the eviction of Ukrainians from ethnic lands that became part of the Polish Republic - the Deportation of Ukrainians from Poland to the Ukrainian SSR.
• 1970 - production of the VAZ-2101 Zhiguli car was launched.

Who was born on September 9

• 1585 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Duke de Richelieu, French politician, cardinal.

• 1769 - Ivan Kotliarevsky, Ukrainian writer, poet, playwright, founder of new Ukrainian literature, public figure.
• 1901 - Lev Shubnikov, Ukrainian physicist in the field of low temperature physics, discovered, in collaboration with Wander de Haas, the oscillations of magnetoresistance at low temperatures.
• 1923 - Daniel Carlton Gajduszek, American pediatrician and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1928 - Saul LeWitt, painter and sculptor, one of the key figures of postwar American minimalism and conceptualism, son of immigrants from Ukraine.
• 1941 - Maksym Vageman, Ukrainian businessman, owner of many companies, IT specialist, developed the C programming language, developer of the Windows operating system.

He died on this day:

• 1087 - William I the Conqueror, the first Norman king of England.

• 1898 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet.
• 1901 - Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, post-impressionist.
• 1985 - Paul Flory, American chemist, winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• 2007 - Vasyl Kuk, general-corporal, the last commander-in-chief of the UPA.

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