What holiday is celebrated on November 10: interesting facts

On November 10, Orthodox believers honor the memory of the holy apostles Erastus, Olympus, Rodion, and those with them. Name days are celebrated by Orest, Kostyantyn, Heorhiy, Andriy, Dmytro, Yustyn ta Stefan.

The world celebrates International Tongue Twister Day, World Science Day, Sesame Street Day, International Accounting Day, and World Youth Day (an unofficial holiday). And in Ukraine, November 10 is the Day of the Viticulturist and Winemaker. OBOZ.UA tells about the holidays and significant events of this day.

What holidays are celebrated on November 10

November 10, according to the New Julian calendar, is the day of remembrance of the Seventy Apostles: Erastus, Olympus, Rodion, Sosipatra, Quartus, and Tertius. Erastus was a disciple of the Apostle Paul and served as the city economist in Corinth. Later, Erastus began traveling with his teacher, preaching the new faith. In Jerusalem, Erastus left the civil service and began to live at the city church. According to legend, Rodion was not only a disciple of the Apostle Paul, but also a distant relative of his. Rodion served as bishop in the city of Patras during the reign of Emperor Nero. Rodion suffered for his faith and was martyred along with the Apostles Peter and Paul.

On the second Sunday of November, the Day of the Viticulturist and Winemaker is celebrated. The holiday was established in support of the initiative of the workers of the viticulture and winemaking industry of Ukraine by a presidential decree of September 22, 2020.

November 10 is unofficially celebrated as Youth Day. It was on this day that the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) was founded at the World Youth Conference in London, held on October 29-November 10, 1945.

World Science Day is celebrated annually on November 10. The holiday was established in 2001 under the auspices of UNESCO. It should be reminded that the National Science Day in Ukraine is celebrated on the third Saturday of May, and February 11 is the International Women in Science Day.

Also, countries around the world celebrate on November 10:

• World Keratoconus Day (keratoconus of the eyes is a complex disease);
• Grandmother's Day in Argentina;
• Birthday of the US Marine Corps;
• Ataturk Memorial Day in Turkey;
• Area code day;
• International Hedgehog Day;
• International Day of Embroiderers;
• National Vanilla Cupcake Day in the United States.

Notable historical events on November 10

• 1663 - The Baturyn Articles were signed.
• 1764 - Catherine II abolished the Hetmanate, transferring all power in the Hetmanate to Petro Rumyantsev.
• 1926 - The Ukrainian Scientific Institute is opened in Berlin.
• 1928 - Taras Shevchenko House Museum is opened in Kyiv.
• 1970 - The Luna 17 space station is launched, landing on the moon a week later and delivering the first Soviet self-propelled device, Lunokhod 1.
• 1992 - Russian troops enter Ingushetia.
• 1993 - All paramilitary non-governmental organizations are banned in Ukraine.
• 1994 - Iraq recognized the independence of Kuwait.
• 2004 - Firefox 1.0 is released.
• 2009 - the first hydroelectric unit of the Dniester PSP was launched (it supplied the first current to the United Energy System of Ukraine).
• 2022 - the 131st separate reconnaissance battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated the town of Snihurivka from Russian occupants.

Who was born on November 10

• 1483 - Martin Luther, Christian theologian, church reformer.
• 1728 - Oliver Goldsmith, famous Irish English-language essayist, poet, prose writer, playwright.
• 1759 - Friedrich Schiller, German poet and playwright († 1805).
• 1759 - Hryhorii Rozumovsky, Ukrainian geologist, mineralogist, biologist.
• 1925 - Oleksandr Bolekhivskyi, Ukrainian poet, publicist, and physician.
• 1903 - Terentiy Masenko, Ukrainian poet and lyricist.
• 1928 - Ennio Morricone, Italian composer.
• 2000 - Mackenzie Foy, American actress.

Died on this day:

• 1838 - Ivan Kotliarevsky, Ukrainian writer, playwright, founder of the new Ukrainian literature.
• 1873 - Mykhailo Maksymovych, Ukrainian historian, philologist, ethnographer, botanist, poet, first rector of Kyiv University.
• 1891 - Arthur Rimbaud, French symbolist poet and lyricist.
• 1893 - Leonid Hlibov, Ukrainian fabulist.
• 1937 - 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.
• 1938 - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the first president of Turkey.
• 1982 - Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet statesman and party leader, Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet in 1960-1964 and 1977-1982
• 2001 - Ken Kesey, American writer.

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