Today, February 25, is the Day of the Aviation Engineering Service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Believers honor the memory of Saint Tarasius, Archbishop of Constantinople. There are 310 days left until the New Year.
February 25, 2024 – Sunday. The 732nd day of the war in Ukraine.
What a church holiday today, February 25
February 25 in the church calendar – the day of memory of Saint Tarasius, Archbishop of Constantinople. Even as a child, he received a good education, because he was born into a pious patrician family. At first, he worked as a scribe and adviser at the court of Emperor Konstantin Bagryanorodny. In that period, the heresy about iconoclasm was very popular, and Bishop Pavlo, who was sitting on the throne at that time, could not overcome it. Paul pointed to Tarasius as his successor when the emperor and his mother, Tsarina Irina, came to him. Therefore, in 784, Tarasius became a bishop. He did many good deeds, but he left because he did not want to break the emperor’s marriage with Maria. He died in 806.
What not to do on February 25
- You can’t go to sleep before sunset.
- Do not abuse alcoholic beverages.
- It is forbidden to look into the house from the street through the window.
Folk signs and traditions for February 25
Among our ancestors there were many interesting omens for this day:
- looked at what day it is today: if it snowed, then there will be bad weather for seven days before Easter;
- rooks build nests on trees, wait for warming;
- the crows screamed loudly – the summer will be cold and rainy;
- to hear thunder – a severe cold will come;
- good weather predicts that the summer will be warm.
On February 25, the crows cried loudly – the summer will be cold and rainy / Photo: Pexels
The people called this day Sleepless Taras, and therefore they tried not to fall asleep for as long as possible, so that all the troubles of the world would not be attached to a person. The faithful also prayed to the saint for health, distributed alms to those in need.
Name day: what to name a child born on February 25
What are today’s birthdays: Taras, Yevhen, Oleksandr, Mykola, Fedir, Anton.
The talisman of a person born on February 25 is gagat. Although the stone is most often black, it does not carry negative energy. Gagat protects against the evil eye, envy and deception.
Born on this day:
- 1871 — Lesya Ukrainka, a Ukrainian poetess, translator, cultural figure;
- 1887 — Ukrainian actor, director, Ukrainian theater reformer Les Kurbas;
- 1905 — Ukrainian choreographer, ballet master, organizer of the National Dance Ensemble of Ukraine Pavlo Pavlovich Virskyi.
Commemorative dates of February 25
Calendar of important events in Ukraine and the world for February 25:
- 1570 – Pope Pius V issues the bull “Regnans in Excelsis”, in which he anathematizes the English Queen Elizabeth I;
- 1573 — Ivan Fedorovych founds a printing house in Lviv;
- 1791 — Congress approves the First Bank of the United States with monopoly nationwide status;
- 1836 – American Samuel Colt patents a 45-caliber six-shot revolver;
- 1918 — the Small Council passes laws on the introduction of the new (Gregorian) calendar and Central European Time into the Ukrainian People’s Republic;
- 1928 – Charles Jenkins Laboratory in Washington receives the first television license;
- 1940 – the first telecast of a hockey match between the NHL clubs “New York Rangers” and “Montreal Canadiens” takes place;
- 1947 — The Allied Control Council formally liquidates Prussia;
- 1957 — the State Publishing House of Children’s Literature of the Ukrainian SSR (now Veselka) is founded;
- 1982 – The European Court of Justice rules in Campbell and Cosans v. the United Kingdom that parents have the right to prohibit corporal punishment of children in schools;
- 1986 – after the Marcos dictatorship, Corazon Aquino becomes the first female president in the Philippines and in all of Asia;
- 1999 – in Argentina, Virginia Rivero gives birth to a girl at the time of a road accident;
- 2010 — the inauguration of Viktor Yanukovych, the president of Ukraine elected as a result of falsifications, takes place in Kyiv.
Weather for February 25
Today, February 25, it is cloudy in Kyiv, without precipitation. It is gloomy in Lviv, light rain at night and in the morning. It is cloudy in Kharkiv, without precipitation. It is gloomy in Odessa, no precipitation is expected.
The air temperature in Kyiv is +7 during the day and +4 at night. In Lviv it is +13 during the day and +8 at night. In Kharkiv +3 during the day and -2 at night. In Odessa +7 during the day and +5 at night.
What a day today is in Ukraine and the world
On February 25, Ukraine celebrates the Day of the Aviation Engineering Service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine / Photo: Associated Press
February 25 is celebrated in Ukraine Day of the Aviation Engineering Service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The state professional holiday was introduced on March 19, 2010 at the initiative of Mykhailo Yezhel (the then Minister of Defense of Ukraine). The Ukrainian aviation engineering service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is engaged in the implementation and organization of technical support for flights, monitors compliance with a certain scheme of aviation works, air transportation. Its activity involves a great deal of responsibility and risk, because it is the engineers who first check all the equipment on themselves. But the level of the crew’s tasks depends on the service.
Also on February 25 Revolver Day. It was on this day in 1836 that Seluel Colt patented a 45-caliber six-shot silicon revolver. Interestingly, this idea actually belongs to John Pearson, who sold it to Colt. There is an interesting version of creating a revolver. John was prompted by the mechanism of the rudder on the ship. First, he created a wooden model, which is preserved to this day. A revolver is a small-arms weapon designed for shooting from a distance of no more than 100 meters.
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