What day is it today in Ukraine and the world

May 5th is World Hand Hygiene Day. In 2008, the UNICEF and WHO Children’s Fund decided to host this event. The date was not chosen by chance. After all, the 5th day of the 5th month of the year is a symbol of 5 fingers on a person’s hand.

May 5 is also World Pulmonary Hypertension Day . This date was created in order to remind the society of such a serious rare disease as pulmonary hypertension. It develops rapidly and needs heavy and long treatment.

And May 5th is International Day of the Midwife . The event was created in order to tell people how important and difficult the work of midwives is. After all, such a responsible profession is difficult to overestimate.

May 5 – Europe Day . The main purpose of the date is to remember the day the Council of Europe was founded. It came out on May 5, 1949. Events on this day help to acquaint the society with the work of Strasbourg organizations and European institutions.

May 5 – what holiday is today in the church calendar

May 5 in the church calendar is the day of the apostle Luke . The Apostle Luke was a doctor, a friend of the Apostle Paul, so he often preached with him about the Kingdom of Heaven. Luke is also an icon painter and the author of one of the Gospels. It is he who is credited with the creation of the first icon of the Virgin Mary. The Apostle Luke is the patron saint of painters and physicians. He died due to a rake in the Greek city of Thebes at the age of 84.

Memorable dates May 5

Calendar of important events in Ukraine and the world for today, May 5:

• 1581 – in Ostrog, the printer Ivan Fedorov published his last work, it was Andrei Rimsha’s “Chronology”;
• 1836 – Europe’s first railway begins operating in Belgium;
• 1891 – Carnegie Hall opens in New York
• 1900 – in with. Zaval Snyatinsky district Kirill Trilevsky founds the first sports and fire society called “Sich”;
• 1920 – the proclamation of the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church;
• 1949 – the Council of Europe begins to operate;
• 1961 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to fly into space;
• 1999 – for the first time in the history of Scotland, elections of their own parliament are held;
• 2014 – the creation of the volunteer regiment “Azov”.

Name days: how to name a child born on May 5

What are the name days today: Vitaly, Theodore, Theodore.

May 5 were born:

• 1836 – Ukrainian writer, composer, musical and cultural figure from Bukovina Sidor Vorobkevich (Danilo Mlaka);
• 1864 – public and political figure, founder and one of the founders of the Ukrainian Radical Party Kirill Trilevsky;
• 1900 – public figure, writer, poet, publicist, ideologist of Ukrainian nationalism Yuriy Lipa;
• 1907 – Ukrainian writer, laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine named after T. G. Shevchenko Irina Vilde;
• 1922 – Ukrainian writer Anatoly Dimarov;
• 1938 – Ukrainian composer Yuri Ishchenko.

Weather on May 5

May 5 in Kyiv in the morning the sky will clear up from the night clouds, no precipitation. It is clear in Lviv, in the evening the sky will be covered with clouds, without precipitation. In Kharkiv, it is clear that precipitation is not expected. In Odessa it is cloudy in the morning, but then the sky will clear up, without precipitation.

The air temperature in Kyiv is +14 during the day and +4 at night (frosts in the air are possible up to 1 degree). In Lviv, +19 during the day and +4 at night (frosts in the air up to 1 degree). In Kharkov +14 during the day and +4 at night. In Odessa +17 during the day and +10 at night.