What is the holiday on November 28: interesting facts about this day

On November 28, Orthodox believers honor the memory of St. Stephen the New, martyr of Irenaeus. Stepan, Vasyl, and Hryhoriy celebrate their name days.

The world celebrates Thanksgiving, Red Planet Day, and in Ukraine, the Day of the Financial Monitoring System Employee. OBOZ.UA tells about the holidays and significant events of this day.

What holidays are celebrated on November 28

November 26, according to the New Julian calendar, is the day of remembrance of the reverend martyr Stephen the New. Stephen was born in 1896 in the village of Lipovets, Volyn. In 1921, he entered a monastery where he took vows and became abbot. Stefan became famous for his spiritual strength and faith, and he helped the poor and needy. In 1937, he was arrested by the Soviet authorities and shot dead after interrogation.

Believers also honor the memory of Irenarch of Sebastia, an early Christian martyr who lived during the persecution of Emperor Diocletian.

November 28 is the Day of the Employee of the Financial Monitoring System of Ukraine. The holiday was established by presidential decree on November 28, 2020. Employees of the financial monitoring system carry out activities in the field of preventing and counteracting the legalization (laundering) of the proceeds of crime.

Thanksgiving is celebrated annually on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and the second Monday of October in Canada. Traditionally, on Thanksgiving Day, turkey is baked and the whole family gathers at the table. The holiday was first celebrated in 1621 by English colonists living in the Plymouth Colony. It was called Thanksgiving Day, to give thanks to God for the harvest and for the help of the Indians. George Washington also proposed to celebrate Thanksgiving annually as a national holiday.

Other countries around the world also celebrate November 28:

• Independence Day of Mauritania;
• Flag and Independence Day of the Republic of Albania;
• French Toast Day in the United States;
• National Day of the Homeless in Spain;
• National Day of the Deaf in Mexico.

Notable historical events on November 28

• 1520 - Fernand Magellan sailed from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
• 1654 - The defense of the Cossack fortress of Busha (in Podillia) from the troops of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth began (on November 30, the defenders blew themselves up along with the fortress).
• 1917 - The Council of People's Commissars sent a note to the ambassadors of Great Britain, France, the United States, and a number of other countries with a proposal to declare an armistice on all fronts and begin peace negotiations. After that, the Bolsheviks announced that they were preparing for separate peace talks with the German Empire.
• 1918 - Estonia was subjected to military aggression by the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, and the War of Liberation of the Estonian people (1918-1920) began.
• 1943 - The first conference of the leaders of the three states of the anti-Hitler coalition - J. Stalin (USSR), F. Roosevelt (USA) and Winston Churchill (UK) - opened in Tehran.
• 1994 - the first attempt by the Russian occupation federal forces to storm the capital of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.
• 2000 - the beginning of the cassette tape scandal in Ukraine. Oleksandr Moroz released audio tapes of conversations in Leonid Kuchma's office regarding the murder of Georgiy Gongadze.
• 2006 - The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine recognized the Holodomor as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people.
• 2013 - the Right Sector popular movement is founded.
• 2016 - most of the Brazilian football team Chapecoense died in a plane crash (2016).

Who was born on November 28

• 1631 - Abraham Brueghel, Flemish Baroque painter, master of still life.
• 1632 - Jean Baptiste Lully, French composer, violinist, creator of French national opera.
• 1757 - William Blake, English poet, painter and engraver.
• 1881 - Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer.
• 1908 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist, ethnographer, sociologist and cultural critic.
• 1957 - Serhiy Proskurnia, Ukrainian film director.
• 1990 - Ilya Akhmetgareev, an employee of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, a participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war, Hero of Ukraine.

Died on this day:

• 1954 - Enrico Fermi, American physicist of Italian descent, Nobel Prize winner (1938), one of the creators of the first atomic bomb (1945).
• 1970 - Alla Horska, Ukrainian artist and public figure.
• 1998 - Bohdan Hnatiuk, one of the creators of American missile technology.
• 2000 - Mykola Bidniak, Ukrainian painter, graphic artist, iconographer.
• 2008 - Petro Khmaruk, political and public figure, organizer of the anti-Soviet resistance movement in the Ukrainian SSR.
• 2010 - Leslie Nielsen, famous American comedian.

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