What holidays are celebrated on November 26: all major events

On November 26, Orthodox believers honor the memory of Alypius the Stylite, the pillar-bearer. It is also a name day of Oleksiy, Andriy, Borys, Vasyliy, Volodymyr, Demian, Roman, Fedir, and Yakiv.

The world celebrates Good Grief Day, Anti-Obesity Day, and Metal Rocker Woman Day. OBOZ.UA tells about the holidays and significant events of this day.

What holidays are celebrated on November 26

November 26, according to the New Julian calendar, is the day of remembrance of St. Alypius. He was born in Adrianople. The boy lost his father early in life, so he was given to Bishop Theodore for upbringing, while his mother worked in a church. During a trip to Constantinople, the monk had a vision in which the Great Martyr Euphemia appeared to him and ordered him to return home and build a church. Alypius fulfilled the instruction, and next to the church, the saint erected a pillar for himself, on which he prayed and taught tirelessly for 53 years. Alypius is said to have had the gift of healing and the ability to prophesy.

Holidays around the world:

• World Olive Day;
• Constitution Day of India;
• Metal Rocker Woman Day;
• Cake Day in the United States.

Notable historical events

• 1901 - In Lviv, students demanded the establishment of a Ukrainian university.
• 1917 - The charter of the Free Cossacks was approved at a meeting of the General Secretariat in Kyiv.
• 1939 - The USSR violated the non-aggression pact with Finland, which led to the beginning of the so-called Winter War.
• 1966 - President Charles de Gaulle inaugurates the world's first tidal power plant in Brittany, France.
• 1968 - The UN General Assembly session approved the Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity.
• 1977 - A monument to the first printer Ivan Fedorov is unveiled in Lviv (sculptors V. Borysenko and V. Podolskyi).

• 2005 - The Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holodomor of 1932-33 is established (last Saturday of November).
• 2018 - Martial law was imposed in Ukraine for 30 days after the Kerch Strait incident. It was the first case of Russia's military aggression against Ukraine, which it committed openly under its national flag, since the beginning of the war in 2014.

Who was born on November 26

• 1607 - John Harvard, English missionary, after whom Harvard University is named.
• 1810 - William George Armstrong, British engineer, gun designer, industrialist.
• 1888 - Nestor Makhno, leader of insurgent groups.
• 1894 - Norbert Wiener, famous American mathematician, founder of cybernetics.
• 1898 - Karl Ziegler, German organic chemist, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry.
• 1903 - Oleksiy Pankratiev, Ukrainian cinematographer.

• 1909 - Eugène Ionesco, Romanian and French writer, playwright.
• 1918 - Ivan Kilberg, Ukrainian conductor, Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR.
• 1934 - Yuriy Lytvyn, poet, writer, publicist, member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.
• 1939 - Tina Turner, American rock singer and actress.
• 1976 - Joe Nichols, American singer.

Died on this day:

• 1855 - Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet, national liberation movement activist.
• 1926 - John Browning, American inventor of the handgun, worked in Belgium.
• 1936 - Mykola Chernilivskyi-Sokol, Rear Admiral, Chief of Staff of the Black Sea Fleet of the Ukrainian State.
• 2017 - Vasyl Nimchuk, Ukrainian linguist, Doctor of Philology, Professor.

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