What is significant about June 4th? Holidays around the world

Today, June 4, 2018, is also celebrated as the International Day of Innocent Children - Victims of Aggression and other events.

On June 4, 2018, the national holiday Basilisk is celebrated. The Church today remembers the martyr Basilisk of Komansky.

Basilisk was born in the 3rd century in the city of Amasya, Cappadocia. During the persecution of Christians under Emperor Maximian Galerius, he was arrested in the city of Comana. While in captivity, God appeared to him and told him of his support in the upcoming trials. The basilisk begged the guards to let him go home to say goodbye to his family. The warriors went to meet him, so intkbbee how the martyr was revered for his firmness of spirit, infallibility and meekness.

The ruler of the city, Agrippa, found out about this and immediately ordered the perpetrators to be punished and Basilisk to be returned. The soldiers found the martyr in the house of his relatives, to whom he said goodbye and asked not to lose faith. They put iron boots on him with nails driven inside and went back. They made a stop along the way, chained the unfortunate man to a dry tree under the scorching sun, and sat down in the shade. When the Basilisk was exhausted from thirst, an earthquake began, which opened a spring in the rock next to him. The soldiers were frightened by what they saw and ran away.

The basilisk remembered that the Lord had predicted martyrdom for him, through which he would be able to enter the kingdom of God. So he himself returned to the city and appeared before Agrippa. When he was forced to make a sacrifice in a pagan temple, it caught fire and the statues crumbled. After this, the martyr’s head was cut off, and they wanted to throw his body into the river. But Christians bought the remains of Basilisk and buried them secretly.

According to signs, if the wind blows from the north, there will be no precipitation in the coming days.

If you sow rye on this day, the cornflower will kill it.

International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression

The International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression is celebrated annually on June 4, based on UN General Assembly resolution ES 7/8, adopted on August 19, 1982. In 2018, he completed it for the 36th time.

The memorial date was established by the UN General Assembly in honor of the memory of the citizens of the planet who died untimely at a young age. This decision was made during a special session at which the extremely difficult situation in Palestine was discussed. The public was shocked by the huge number of dead and injured Lebanese and Palestinian children during the Arab-Israeli military conflicts in 1982. And those who remained to live received enormous psychological trauma after going through the maw of war.

Bank Worker Day in Moldova

Today in Moldova we celebrate Bank Worker Day. The date of the celebration was chosen because such a day was adopted as the date of foundation of the National Bank of the Republic of Moldova. In 1991, on June 4, the founding of the National Bank, as well as the adoption of banking legislation in the same year, became the basis for the creation of the national banking system of the republic. Today there are about 15 commercial banks in Moldova. Constant development and support of banking management allows us to increase the level of competitiveness in the financial and banking market. At the same time, the volume of transactions is constantly increasing. The banking system is recognized and highly appreciated by international financial organizations.

Day of State Symbols of Kazakhstan

In Kazakhstan, on this day in 1992, new state symbols of a non-reciprocal country were established. In history, such a date will forever remain as the birthday of the new state symbols. One of the unshakable foundations of the state are precisely state symbols. A blue flag, and against its background there is a golden sun and a soaring silhouette of an eagle and a coat of arms. In the center of the image is the image of shanyrak. It comes as a symbol of the common home of all local residents. The coat of arms of Kazakhstan has the shape of a circle. After all, the shape of a ball has always been considered the most perfect in the world. Such a circle is especially valued by nomads. The circle can be an element of heraldry and is used everywhere. Only now he is held in special esteem by the nomads. Such a circle can be a symbol of life and eternity.

Vladimir, Daniel, Zakhar, Ivan, Makar, Mikhail, Pavel, Sophia, Thaddeus, Fedor, Yakov.

• 1705 - Peter I allowed Nikita Demidov to build new metallurgical plants in the Urals.
• 1800 - Construction of the White House in Washington was completed.
• 1897 - construction of the cruiser Aurora began at the New Admiralty shipyard in St. Petersburg.
• 1922 - the first issue of the Krokodil magazine was published.
• 1946 - the investigation into the Trophy Case began in the USSR.
• 1962 - the first issue of the satirical newsreel, Wick, appeared on Soviet movie screens.

• Francois Quesnay 1694 - French economist.
• Alexey Ermolov 1777 - Russian military leader.
• Apollo Maykov 1821 - Russian poet.
• Evgeny Mravinsky 1903 - Soviet conductor.
• Viktor Tikhonov 1930 - Soviet hockey player and coach.
• Angelina Jolie 1975 - American actress, director.

1286 - The Kingdom of Jerusalem was united under the rule of King Henry II of Cyprus.
1391 - anti-Jewish pogrom in Seville. More than 4,000 people were killed.
1665 - The Spanish Queen Maria Anna of Austria signed a decree renaming the Thieves Islands, discovered by Magellan (he called them the Triangular Sail Islands), into the Marianas.
1703 - the House of Peter I (the oldest building in St. Petersburg) was founded.
1716 - African slaves were first brought to Louisiana (North America).
1741 - the Russian expedition of Vitus Bering set off from Kamchatka towards Alaska.
1800 - Construction of the White House was completed in Washington, and the first occupants moved in: President John Adams and his wife.
1817 - Odessa was granted the status of a free city by government decree.
1856 - The Tretyakov Gallery was founded.
1859 - the French defeated the 60,000-strong Austrian army at the town of Magenta, contributing to the unification of Italy.
1878 - The Ottoman Empire transferred control of the island of Cyprus to Great Britain.
1893 - the beginning of a strike at the Russian paper spinning mill (now "Vereteno"). The beginning of the “St. Petersburg Industrial War” (Lenin).
1896 - A secret treaty was signed in Moscow between Russia and China, according to which Russia promised protection from possible Japanese aggression and received the right to build the Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchuria. The conclusion of the agreement became possible thanks to the successful leadership of the negotiations by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Prince Alexei Borisovich Lobanov-Rostovsky.
- The test of the first car built by Ford was delayed by an hour because it turned out that the car was wider than the doors of the workshop in which it was created.
1908 - the ashes of the writer Emile Zola were transferred to the Pantheon.
1916 - World War I: The Brusilov breakthrough, an offensive operation of the Russian army, begins.
1917 - establishment of the Order of the British Empire.
1918 - The Germans proclaimed Lithuania a kingdom, placing the Duke of Württemberg on the throne.
1922 - birth of “Crocodile”. The publishing house "Rabochaya Gazeta" published the first weekly illustrated and satirical supplement to the newspaper "Rabochy" (then "Rabochaya Gazeta") on 16 pages, which at first had the same name as the newspaper. From the 13th issue the magazine received its current name. The first two issues were almost entirely devoted to the trial of the Social Revolutionaries, which took place in Moscow.
1925 - The Chrysler automobile concern was founded.
1940 - World War II: End of Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of British, French and Belgian troops from the French city of Dunkirk.
- Opening of the Dynamo stadium in Moscow.
1942 - World War II: the Battle of Midway begins.
- On this day, Glenn Wallichs from the Capitol Records company came up with the idea to send new records to all the influential radio stations in the country in the hope that they would broadcast this music. This soon became common practice for all record companies.
1950 - US authorities accused one of the developers of rocket-building programs, Qian Xuesen (the future head of Chinese rocket science), of aiding the communists.
- In South Africa, with the adoption of several laws, a state system of apartheid emerged. The Immorality Act Amendment of 1949 prohibited sexual relations between Caucasians and people of color. The Population Registration Act required compulsory registration according to group membership as white, colored or African. The Residential Areas Act established a mechanism for the formation of isolated zones in which persons of the same racial group were allowed to live. The Law on the Suppression of the Communist Movement gave the Minister of Justice broad powers to persecute any opposition organization.
1956 - the US State Department published the “secret” report of N. S. Khrushchev at the 20th Congress of the CPSU “On the cult of personality and its consequences”; The contents of the report were broadcast on Radio Free Europe that same day.
1959 - US-owned sugar factories and plantations in Cuba were expropriated.
1962 - the first issue of the satirical film magazine “Fitil” was released on the screens of the USSR, the editor-in-chief is Sergei Mikhalkov.
1965 - a monument to Mikhail Lermontov by sculptor Isaac Davidovich Brodsky was unveiled at the Red Gate in Moscow. This monument is the same “man in a jacket” that is discussed in the famous film “Gentlemen of Fortune”.
1968 - Robert Kennedy, John F. Kennedy's brother, was shot and killed immediately after delivering a speech celebrating his victory in the California primary in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel.
1969 - Israel passed a law according to which the national currency should be called the shekel. However, according to the wording of the law, the right moment for its ratification was determined by the Minister of Finance, so the country used the lira for almost 11 more years, until February 1980.
1970 - Tonga gained independence from Britain.
1972 - poet Joseph Brodsky was forced to emigrate. In a letter addressed to Brezhnev, he wrote: “I am bitter about leaving Russia. I believe that I will return. Poets always return - in the flesh or on paper."
1975 - The Rolling Stones became the first Western rock band to receive royalties for releasing their songs in the USSR.
- The first live broadcast from a meeting of the British Parliament.
1977 - The draft Constitution of the USSR was published for public discussion.
1988 - an explosion occurred at the Arzamas station of the Gorky Railway during the approach of a freight train at 9.32. 91 people were killed, including 17 children, and hundreds were injured. The explosion and fire destroyed 151 residential buildings. 600 families were left homeless. The cause of the explosion was non-compliance with the rules for transporting industrial explosives used in geological exploration.
1989 - Suppression of student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
- The largest railway accident in the history of Russia and the USSR occurred. On the stretch between the Asha and Ulu-Telyak stations, while two passenger trains were passing, a cloud of gas exploded, leaking from a damaged product pipeline. 575 people were killed, 623 were injured.
1999 - The opening of Malaysia's new federal capital, Patrajaya, is announced.
- Celebrations began in Ingushetia dedicated to the move of the administration to the new capital - Magas.
- The “Worm.ExploreZip” virus has been identified for the first time, affecting thousands of computers around the world.
2000 - The Sri Lankan government lifted the ban on demonstrations in the country.
- US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright officially opened the new building of the American Embassy in Moscow.
2004 - Leonid Parfyonov was nominated for the Leipzig Media Prize for 2005.
- American financier George Soros said that the war on terrorism has turned the United States from a victim into a criminal, killing more innocent people than the September 11 attacks.
2010 - The first launch of the Falcon 9 rocket took place from Cape Canaveral at 18:45 UTC.

Holiday calendar, dates and events of June

In 1452, the marriage of Prince Ivan (the future Ivan III) took place. The chronicle says: “The Grand Duke (Vasily Vasilyevich) married the son of his Grand Duke John, from the Grand Duke Boris Alexandrovich of Tfersky.”

Ivan was 12 years old, Maria Tverskaya was 10. According to the concepts of that time, there was nothing unusual for newlyweds at such a young age. The attention of both parents and observers, including those in foreign countries, focused on the political meaning of this marriage. The long internecine war for the Moscow throne, which Vasily Vasilyevich waged with his relatives, had just ended. During the struggle, he was blinded, which is why he went down in history with the nickname Vasily the Dark, but ultimately prevailed. By marrying his son to the Tver princess, he sought to stabilize the situation.

The tops of the Tver principality gravitated towards Lithuania, Lithuania sought to weaken Moscow through Tver - the union of Ivan and Maria, according to the calculations of Vasily the Dark, to some extent weakened Lithuania’s claims to interfere in Russian affairs.

In 1703, the first residential building in St. Petersburg, known as the house of Peter I, was founded.

Nowadays it is the oldest building in the city. It was built in just 3 days (!) and became another proof that Peter the Great was an incorrigible dreamer. The most extraordinary combination of an ordinary Russian hut (what else could Russian soldiers, or peasants in the recent past, know how to build?), a high Dutch roof and large windows - is this not the embodiment of Peter the Great’s dream of “civilizing” Russia.

The dreamer Peter could not yet build himself a brick house on the swampy banks of the Neva, but still ordered the walls of his new house to be painted “like brick.” The only question is: how did this dreaminess coexist in his soul with cruelty towards his subordinates and unpretentiousness in his private life?

In 1777, the Russian commander Alexei Ermolov was born - the hero of Borodin and the conqueror of the Caucasian highlanders.

He began his service at the age of 15. In his early youth he took part in the Polish and Persian campaigns. For the storming of Warsaw he earned the praise of Suvorov, for the capture of Prague - George of the 4th degree. Under Paul I, Ermolov fell into disgrace and lived in Kostroma, where he educated himself and even learned Latin. His great career began with the accession of Alexander I. For his bravery at Austerlitz, Ermolov was promoted to colonel. Two years later, in 1808, he became a major general.

He met the Patriotic War of 1812 in the position of chief of staff of the army of Peter Bagration. Ermolov was involved in drawing up plans for the Smolensk and Borodino battles. In the foreign campaign of the Russian army, he commanded artillery.

In 1816, Ermolov was appointed commander of the Caucasian Corps (he remained in this position for 11 years). In relation to the mountaineers, Ermolov acted as a real colonialist - he built a powerful line of fortresses from Grozny to Yekaterinodar. The slightest resistance of the “wild people” was suppressed in the most brutal way. At the same time, Alexey Petrovich patronized trade, industry, and winemaking; rebuilt Tiflis. It was under him that the development of Caucasian mineral springs began.

In 1827, Nicholas I dismissed Ermolov: the general delayed for several days in taking the oath, and the Tsar suspected that Ermolov sympathized with the Decembrists.
Since 1831, Ermolov lived in Moscow, in his own house on Prechistenka, wrote memoirs, read and bound books. When the Crimean War began, he was elected head of the Moscow militia.

He was never officially married. In his youth, he once fell passionately in love, but decided that his financial situation did not allow him to start a family. From various connections Ermolov had five children: Victor (from the Circassian Syuda), Sever and Claudius (from the Circassian Totai), Nikolai and daughter Saniat. The sons received the rights of legitimate children from Alexander II, and the daughter remained a Muslim and married the mountaineer Mahay-ogly.
Ermolov died in 1861.

June 4 is the birthday of the outstanding Soviet conductor, “lord of the orchestra,” as he was called, Evgeniy Mravinsky.

First of all, Mravinsky is known as the best and unsurpassed interpreter of Shostakovich's music. As a sign of gratitude and respect, the composer presented the score of the eighth symphony with his autograph to Mravinsky, who performed the symphony only from this score all his life. The duet of Shostakovich and Mravinsky became the great composer-performer duo of the 20th century. In addition, the conductor’s favorite authors were Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Weber, Bartok, Stravinsky, for whose works he received main prizes and awards at international competitions and festivals.

The master's life was filled with the living breath of time and era, glorified by the names of Prokofiev, Khachaturian, Asafiev, Cherkasov, Ulanova... Few people know that Evgeny Mravinsky drew well and wrote philosophical poems, was very fond of animals, nature, and was fond of photography.

On June 4, 1922, the first weekly illustrated satirical supplement to the Rabochy newspaper (later Rabochaya Gazeta) was published on 16 pages, which at first had the same name as the newspaper, and from the 13th issue began to be called “Crocodile”. The first two issues of the supplement were almost entirely devoted to the trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries, which took place in Moscow in those days. Demyan Bedny, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Valentin Kataev, Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov and many other famous writers were published in Krokodil.

June 4, 1972. Leningrad, Pulkovo airport. 32-year-old Joseph Brodsky is forced to leave his homeland. Forever. Could anyone have predicted then that he would become a Nobel laureate? In his own country, he is just a parasite (as the court determined).

They tell me that I need to leave.
Yes, yes, thank you, I'm going.
Yes, yes, I understand, see you off
Don't, and I won't get lost...

“I am bitter about leaving Russia,” Brodsky wrote in a letter addressed to Brezhnev. - I believe that I will return. Poets always return, in the flesh or on paper.”

Angelina Jolie was born in 1975 - American actress, fashion model, UN Goodwill Ambassador, winner of an Oscar, as well as three Golden Globe awards and two Screen Actors Guild awards.

In the media, Jolie is often called one of the most beautiful women on the planet. Her father is the famous actor Jon Voight, her mother is the French-Canadian actress Marcheline Bertrand, her godmother is actress Jacqueline Bisse, her husband is Brad Pitt. The actor lived a long life, almost 90 years. He only got married at 65.

“And I’m no longer a man... I’m Baba Yaga,” he told his 60-year-old bride, when the woman, surprised by the marriage proposal, noticed that at her age it seemed inappropriate to desire intimacy with the opposite sex. And she agreed - a neighbor in a communal apartment, smitten by his answer, and even more bewitched by his irresistible charm.

The hut of official recognition turned to the actor-wizard, a fabulous evil spirit of all-Union significance, only when he turned 85 years old. It was then that a great artist, a master of the grotesque image on the screen and an unusually modest person in life, was awarded the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR. But truly popular popularity came to Millyar, of course, much earlier.

In 2000, the cult film “The Matrix” was released on US screens with the extravagant Keanu Reeves in the title role.

And while the Americans, with their mouths open, watched the mind-blowing special effects of this picture, Moscow met their compatriot Joe Cocker, who gave two amazing concerts in the Russian capital. As at the premiere of “The Matrix,” there was not a single empty seat at Cocker’s Moscow concerts.

Day of Innocent Victims
Such a memorable day was introduced into the world calendar in 1982, based on a resolution adopted by the participants of the UN General Assembly. The reason was the huge number of children killed, Lebanese and Palestinian, as a result of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Events that take place on this day. are intended to remind of the tragedy and prevent recurrence in the future.

Holidays around the world

Day of State Symbols (Kazakhstan)
The national flag, coat of arms, and anthem of Kazakhstan now have their own holiday, and therefore many organizations and institutions hold special events and concerts.

National Flag Day (Estonia)
The Estonian state symbol is unique; no flag in the world uses this combination of colors. On the one hand, it is very discreet (three stripes of blue, black and white), on the other, it contains deep symbolism.

It was invented by Tartu students in 1881, received official status in 1922, and was re-approved as the Estonian state symbol in August 1990.

Defense Forces Day (Finland)
The holiday is dedicated to the memory of the great political and military figure of Finland, Karl Mannerheim. The main events are organized at the hero’s grave, at the burial places of heroes of military events; a parade is held in the town of Vaasa with the participation of all branches of Finnish troops and equipment.

Bank Worker Day (Moldova)
The date of the holiday coincides with the founding date of the National Bank of Moldova, congratulations are accepted by all employees and specialists in the country's financial sector.

Holidays according to the national calendar June 4, 2019

Basilisk
The mythical creature, which combined in its appearance the features of a rooster, toad and snake, became the main character of the folk holiday. On this day it could be born; to avoid this, the peasants first boiled all the eggs hard-boiled.

The Orthodox have Basilisk, Sophia, Pavel, Michael, Danila. Vladimir.

Events in the history of this date

1703 – the first house in St. Petersburg was founded
Today it is known as the house of Peter I and is considered the oldest in the Northern capital.

1800 – final construction of the White House (USA)
The first inhabitants of the presidential house were John Adams and his wife, and they were the ones who had to celebrate their housewarming.

1916 - the beginning of the Brusilov breakthrough
During World War I it was one of the most famous offensive operations of the Russian army.

1925 - founding of a new automobile concern
It became Chrysler, a symbol of reliability, good quality and exorbitantly high prices.

Celebrities born on this day

1821 – Apollo Maykov, an outstanding Russian poet.

1903 – Evgeny Mravinsky, famous conductor.

1930 - famous Soviet hockey player, later coach Viktor Tikhonov.

1975 – Angelina Jolie, beautiful actress and mother of many children.