What do we know about the 8st of November?
On this day, November 8, in Ukraine and around the World:
Commemorative Events and Dates for Ukraine:
- 1867 - The first season of the permanent opera theater in Kyiv (now the National Opera of Ukraine) began with Alexey Verstovsky's opera "Askold's Grave."
International Observances and Commemorative Dates:
- International Day of Radiology (World Radiography Day). Celebrated on the anniversary of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen's discovery of X-rays in 1895.
- World Urbanism Day (World Town Planning Day).
- World Pianist Day.
- International KVN Day (Club of the Merry and the Quick-witted).
- World No Wi-Fi Day (an initiative aimed at drawing attention to the possible effects of radio waves).
Church Dates (according to the New Calendar in Ukrainian Orthodoxy):
- November 8 is celebrated as the Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the Other Bodiless Heavenly Hosts (Michael's Day).
