March 12 - for someone ordinary weekday, and for some - a big celebration: birthday, name day, the day of the professional worker and some significant date.Let us understand, for what reason we can have fun on this day.Maybe someone of you name day today, and you do not know?
Birthday
person born on March 12 Zodiac sign - Pisces.The stars say that people born on this day have a mysterious character, are hospitable and excellent intuition.Negative features of people that sign is unreliable, unnecessary exposure to the doldrums, excessive anxiety.In general, the stars promise a peaceful happy life with small patches of sadness.
Name day
March 12 holiday can celebrate people who are called by the following names: Makar, Stepan Timothy Julian, Julius Jacob, Cassian.Relying on the Orthodox calendar, the Day of the angel can also celebrate Peter, Victoria and Michael.According to an old tradition, it is necessary to call these names of babies born on that day.It is believed that if you give the child the name of the patron saint, the angel will always be there, it will be protected from evil throughout their lives.
More March 12 the Orthodox Church reveres St. Procopius Dekapolita, so people with the same name as the name day.
citizens who were born on this day are endowed with such traits as prudence, charisma, solid throughout and the ability to see the essence of things.
March 12 - feast of prison staff
In Russia, this day is a professional holiday of specialists working in the penal system.March 12, 1879 the Russian Emperor Alexander II signed a decree on the establishment of the prison department.This document laid the groundwork for the formation of a unified state penal system in our country.
People working in the penal system, celebrate their professional holiday in the country.On this day, they are dedicated to a variety of concerts and festive events.Pass the presentation of national and departmental awards to distinguished employees, congratulations to veterans.Also on March 12 with sorrow remember the fallen in the line of duty employees of the correctional system.
Famous people born on this day
who was born on 12 March because of celebrities?We can mention many famous people.Born March 12:
- internationally renowned academician, public figure and thinker, scientist Vladimir Vernadsky;
- famous German director, producer and actor Alfred Abel;
- Georgian opera singer Zurab Sotkilava;
- playwright, comedian, writer, broadcaster and actor Grigory Gorin;
- Soviet director Andrei Smirnov;
- actress and singer from Los Angeles Liza Minnelli;
- Armenian jazz pianist and composer David Azarian;
- Soviet and Russian singer Irina Ponarovskaya;
- Russian actor Sergei Selin;
- Russian actress Tatiana Lyutaeva;
- Russian choreographer and actor Yegor Druzhinin;
- Russian actress Natalia Antonova;
- Russian actor Kirill Ivanchenko;
- pop Russian singer Alexei Chumakov.
Significant events of the day
March 12 in Russia's history was marked by the following events:
- 1714 .: Peter the Great issued a decree on the establishment of schools for tsifirnyh;
- 1770 .: creation of the English congregation in St. Petersburg;
- .: 1798 issued a decree under which the Old Believers may build churches in all dioceses;
- 1854 .: France, Turkey and Britain against Russia concluded a treaty of alliance of Constantinople;
- .: 1896 using a device invented by AS Popov, was sent to the world's first wireless message;
- .: 1899 first held in our country an international hockey tournament, held in St. Petersburg;
- 1917 .: 20000th manifestation of the representatives of the Ukrainian public national flags, held in St. Petersburg;
- 1917 .: Russia's February Revolution took place;
- .: 1918 became the capital of the USSR, Moscow;
- .: 1922 created Union republics of Transcaucasia;
- 1922 .: Chechnya declares its independence from the Soviet Union;
- .: 1940 Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940.It ends with the signing of a peace treaty between Finland and the Soviet Union;
- .: 1951 Soviet armed forces take the Law on Protection of the world.
And what events occurred on March 12 in the world?
- 1609 .: Bermuda becoming a British colony;
- .: 1881 Tunisia became the protector of France;
- .: 1904 launched the first branch of trains in Britain;
- 1912 .: based in the United States Boy Scout movement;
- 1968 .: Independence Day of the African republic of Mauritius;
- .: 1974 this day the unit automatically performs the space station for the first time landing on the surface of Mars;
- 1999 .: Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland to join NATO.
Folk Calendar
March 12 to recall the folk calendar confessor Dekapolita Procopius, who lived in the 8th century.It was believed that from this day spring comes into its own, the snow begins to melt, winter roads become limp and become impassable.On this day people watching drippings if she was strong, the long journey to go feared and tried to stay home.Weak drops bode well for hunters successful hunt hares.
holiday celebrated on this day abroad
March 12 in China and Taiwan celebrated the official holiday - Day tree planting (Arbor Dey).This is the day the death of a famous Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen.In his honor, in these countries, March 12 held the event on planting of green spaces, as he led the propaganda landscaping territory.