What holiday is celebrated on October 21 in Ukraine

On October 21, Orthodox believers honor the memory of St. Hilarion the Great. Name days are celebrated by Ilarion, Serhiy, Vasyl, Pelaheya, Oleksiy, Anatoliy, Zakhar and Yakiv.

The world celebrates Energy Saving Day, World Day for the Prevention of Iodine Deficiency Diseases, Back to the Future Day, World Writers' Day, and International Nachos Day. OBOZ.UA tells about the holidays and significant events of this day.

What holidays are celebrated on October 21

October 21, according to the New Julian calendar, is the day of remembrance of St. Hilary the Great. Hilary lived in Palestine in the III-IV centuries. In his youth, he traveled to Alexandria, where he studied with St. Anthony. Upon returning home, Hilary distributed his property to his relatives and the needy, and he went to live in the desert. Hilarion led an ascetic life, prayed and fasted, but one day he was attacked by robbers. The man preached a sermon to them and managed to convince them to give up their life of crime. Thanks to this, Hilarion became famous, and people were drawn to him. It is said that Hilarion could heal serious illnesses. The saint died on the island of Cyprus, having previously predicted his death.

October 21 is Energy Conservation Day, which was established to preserve natural resources and achieve energy efficiency. Taking care of the environment is becoming an increasingly difficult task, and saving energy is a collective responsibility. The events held on this day are aimed at making society think about energy consumption and its rational use.

Other countries around the world also celebrate October 21:

• Engineer's Day in Iceland;
• Chatterbox Day or Chatterbox Day;
• The Day of Remembrance of the Battle of Trafalgar;
• Button Count Day or Button Day;
• International Nachos Day (a famous Mexican appetizer);
• National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day in the United States.

Notable historical events on October 21

• 1056 - the beginning of the writing of the Ostromyr Gospel, the oldest surviving East Slavic manuscript.
• 1520 - Fernand Magellan opens the strait between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, later named after him.
• 1879 - American inventor Thomas Edison tested his first incandescent lamp with a coal filament.
• 1897 - the Black Sea Shipyard starts operating in Mykolaiv.
• 1944 - the crew of the Cuban ship Rubicon mysteriously disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle.
• 1950 - the Geneva Conventions for the Protection of War Victims entered into force.
• 1966 - the Aberfan disaster occurred in Wales, a tragic landslide of a coal spoil heap onto a nearby village.
• 1991 - the world's first balloon flight over Mount Everest was made.

Who was born on October 21

• 1772 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English reformist poet, philosopher, literary critic, one of the founders of the literary movement of Romanticism.
• 1790 - Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer and politician.
• 1833 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist, inventor of dynamite, founder of the Nobel Prizes.
• 1894 - Edogawa Rampo, Japanese writer.
• 1908 - Jorge Oteiza, Spanish sculptor.
• 1912 - George Szolty, British conductor of Hungarian origin, winner of 32 Grammy Awards.
• 1949 - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli politician and statesman, current Prime Minister of Israel.
• 1967 - Dmytro Gordon, Ukrainian journalist.

Died on this day:

• 1805 - Horatio Nelson, prominent British naval commander, vice admiral, baron.
• 1964 - Hryhoriy Veryovka, Ukrainian composer, artistic director and chief conductor of the State Ukrainian Folk Choir.
• 1969 - Jack Kerouac, American writer, poet, essayist.
• 1984 - François Truffaut, French film director (Fahrenheit 451, The Neighbor, Brides Wear Black), one of the founders of the New Wave.
• 1990 - Oleksandr Pidsukha, Ukrainian poet, prose writer, playwright, translator, public figure.
• 2003 - Elliott Smith, American musician, singer-songwriter.

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