Today is April 26, the weather is +18°C. Cloudy, light wind, southeast 2.5 m/s. Atmospheric pressure 740 mm Hg. Art. Relative humidity 79%.
Tomorrow night the air temperature will drop to +13°C, the wind will change to southwest 1.3 m/s. The pressure will increase and amount to 742 mm Hg. Art. The temperature during the day will not rise above +15°C, and at night on April 28 it will not drop below +8°C. The wind will be north at 1.4 m/s.
Sunrise: 05:11 Sunset: 19:55 Day length: 14 hours 44 minutes
Warmest April 11.9 (2000). The coldest April is -0.2 (1852).
Today the name day is celebrated
Men
Georgiy from the ancient Greek name Georgios, derived from georgos – “farmer”, “cultivator of the land”
Dmitriy from the ancient Greek name Demetrios – “dedicated to Demeter (goddess of fertility)”, “farmer”
Egor Russian version of the ancient Greek name Georgiy – “farmer”, “cultivator of the land”
Women
Martha Western European form of the name Martha, derived from the Hebrew name Martha – “mistress”, “mistress”, “mentor”
Marfa from the Hebrew name Martha – “mistress”, “mistress”, “mentor”
Holidays today
Notary Day
International Day of Remembrance for Victims of Radiation Accidents and Disasters
Fomaida Medunitsa
Day of Remembrance of Russian Emergency Situations Ministry employees who died in the line of duty
Tree planting festival.
Events and memorable dates:
1457 BC e. – Battle of Megiddo. The troops of Pharaoh Thutmose III defeated the coalition of the kings of Northern Syria and Palestine,
1164 – in Vladimir, Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky built the Golden Gate on the model of the Kyiv gates and completed the construction of the fortress walls of Vladimir,
1478 – in Florence, as a result of the Pazzi Conspiracy against the Medici family, Lorenzo de’ Medici was wounded and his brother, Giuliano, was killed.
1607 – The first English settlers in America landed at Cape Henry (Virginia),
1658 – Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, by his decree, ordered to call the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin, previously called Frolovskaya,
1783 – thirteen-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven was appointed keyboard player in the court orchestra in Bonn,
1795 – Russia annexed Courland,
1798 – France annexed the Republic of Geneva,
1799 – The Battle of the Adda River began. The battle took place between Russian-Austrian troops under the command of A.V. Suvorov and the French army under the command of J.V. Moreau. The battle became the first major victory of the Allies during Suvorov’s Italian campaign.
