Today you can not leave things unfinished, it is also better not to start new ones.
What happened on this day:
Today the Orthodox Church honors the memory of St. Timothy. He was a fierce Christian, sincerely prayed and preached faith in Christ. For this, the Lord rewarded the Monk Timothy with the gift of healing and prophecy.
March 6 is also World Tennis Day.
What not to do on March 6:
overeat, drink alcohol, leave things unfinished
Folk signs and beliefs:
the snow is melting – it will soon be warm it will snow – by early spring the ice on the rivers has melted – by a warm spring
Born today:
1475 – Michelangelo (d. 1564), Italian sculptor, painter, architect and Renaissance poet
1927 – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (d. 2014), Colombian writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (1982)
1934 – Mikhail Zhvanetsky (d. 2020), satirist writer
1946 – David Gilmour, British composer, guitarist, singer, one of the leaders of the rock band Pink Floyd
Angel Day is celebrated:
Alexander, George, Grigory, Daniel, Ivan, Konstantin, Olga, Pavel, Timofey
Also on this day:
1617 – Frenchman Louis Hebert first received the right to farm in Quebec (New France)
1810 – Illinois became the first US state to introduce compulsory vaccination.
1899 – German chemist Felix Hoffmann receives a patent for aspirin
1900 – Chinese man found dead in San Francisco – beginning of the first U.S. bubonic plague epidemic
1902 – Founding of the football club “Real” (Madrid)
1919 – The first constitution of the Ukrainian SSR was adopted
1924 – The first radio receiver is installed in the Vatican
1938 – In London, trolleybuses replaced trams
1964 – World boxing champion Cassius Clay converted to Islam and took a different name – Muhammad Ali
1967 – Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva asked for political asylum at the US Embassy in India
1970 – The Beatles’ last single “Let It Be” was released in England.
1985 – American boxer Mike Tyson began his professional career by knocking out Hector Mercedes.
1997 – Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain opened her first official website
2022 – Russia’s full-scale invasion of the territory of independent Ukraine: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky awarded the honorary title “Hero City of Ukraine” to six cities: Kharkov, Chernigov, Mariupol, Kherson, Gostomel and Volnovakha.
