What holiday is celebrated on August 19: all about this day

On August 19, Orthodox believers honor the memory of the martyr Andrew Stratilat. The world celebrates the International Day of Humanitarian Aid, and beekeepers in Ukraine celebrate their professional holiday.

On this day, those named Andrii, Mykhailo, Arkhyp, Makar, Yulian, and Khrystyna are the birthday people. OBOZ.UA tells about the holidays and significant events of this day.

What holidays are celebrated on August 19

The professional holiday of beekeepers in Ukraine began to be celebrated in 1997. Officially, the Day of the Beekeeper was established by Presidential Decree No. 815/97 and is celebrated annually on August 19. Experts estimate that every seventh ton of the world's honey is Ukrainian.

World Humanitarian Day was established at the initiative of the World Health Organization and other international organizations. The goal is to draw attention to the role of humanitarian workers and the need to unite to help those in difficult situations. It also honors the memory of those who have been killed or injured during humanitarian operations.

August 19 is also World Photography Day. On August 19, 1839, the French government acquired a patent for daguerreotypes, the first prototypes of photography. And on August 19, 2010, the first global online gallery was created as part of this holiday.

The United States celebrates Aviation Day on this day, Afghanistan celebrates Independence Day, and animal rights activists established Orangutan Day on August 19.

Notable historical events on August 19

1839 - France proclaimed daregotype a "gift to the world," making photography a widely available technology.

1914 - The governing body of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, the Ukrainian Military Administration, is established.

1943 - U.S. President F. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sign a secret agreement on cooperation in the development of the atomic bomb.

1960 - the first orbital flight of living beings with a return to Earth is made.

1982 - a spacecraft was launched, with Ukrainian Leonid Popov as a member of the crew.

1989 - The parish of Saints Peter and Paul in Lviv was the first to leave the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church and declare itself part of the UAOC.

Who was born on August 19

• 1871 - Orville Wright, one of the Wright brothers, co-inventor of the airplane.
• 1883 - Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel, French fashion designer.
• 1902 - Oles Donchenko, Ukrainian writer.
• 1924 - Willard Boyle, American physicist of Canadian descent, Nobel Prize in Physics.
• 1930 - Frank McCourt, American writer, Pulitzer Prize winner.
• 1996 - Vitaliy Skakun, Ukrainian soldier. Hero of Ukraine.

Died on this day:

• 14 - Octavian Augustus, Roman emperor.
• 1662 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, writer and philosopher.
• 1913 - Mykhailo Komarov-Umanets, Ukrainian bibliographer and folklorist.
• 2020 - Borys Paton, Ukrainian scientist, President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Hero of Ukraine.

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