December 25 - Monday
Christmas with Catholics, Lutherans and some Orthodox - hurray !!! MERRY CHRISTMAS
Kolyada - the sun-baby, in Slavic mythology - the embodiment of the New Year's cycle. Kolyada - the turn of the Sun in the spring - was celebrated during the Great Winter Christmas, held from December 24 to January 5.
Great Slavic winter festivals began - twelve days symbolizing twelve months - six days of light and six days of dark. You can go home and sing carols, do not kick carolers - they sing for treats).
Nardugan means "born of the sun" and symbolizes the pagan cult of the Sun. The celebration takes place just at the time when the light day begins to grow.
1759 - Physicist Josef Adam Brown received solid mercury.
1917 - Ukraine was proclaimed by the Republic of Soviets of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies. On the eve of 1917, all Ukrainian lands were part of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires.
1979 - the war in Afghanistan began - for us it began when the introduction of Soviet troops began. Over 10 years, more than 15 thousand soldiers and officers died, and how many physical and moral disabled people returned from there - no one believed.
1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev in a televised address announced his resignation from the post of President of the USSR.