On July 25, the world celebrates International Day of Specialists in the Implementation of Digital Technologies, International Day of Health, Happiness and Hypnosis, World Drowning Prevention Day, Wine and Cheese Day, International Red Shoe Day, Dental Technician Day.
International day of specialists in the implementation of digital technologies
Held annually on the last Thursday of July, it aims to recognize and support the role of professionals involved in the development, implementation and support of digital technologies in various industries. This day emphasizes the importance of digital transformations that are taking place all over the world and the role of professionals in this process.
The initiative to introduce this holiday arose at the beginning of the 21st century as a result of global digitalization and the need to recognize professionals working on the implementation of the latest technologies. This day became an important moment to draw attention to achievements and challenges in the field of information technology.
Specialists in the implementation of digital technologies play a critical role in today’s world. They provide: software creation, development of new digital tools and platforms, implementation of digital solutions in various fields such as medicine, education, finance, manufacturing, security and many others. Specialists also ensure the stable operation of digital systems, their updating and adaptation to new challenges.
International Day of Health, Happiness and Hypnosis
International Day of Health, Happiness and Hypnosis aims to draw attention to the importance of mental health and happiness, and the role of hypnosis as an effective tool to achieve these states. This day emphasizes the connection between physical health, psychological well-being and the therapeutic use of hypnosis.
The initiative to establish this day arose thanks to the combined efforts of psychologists, therapists and hypnotherapy specialists who sought to popularize the importance of mental health and methods of its support. This day was celebrated for the first time in 2010 and since then has gained popularity in many countries.
Happiness and health are closely related. Research shows that happy people have better physical and mental health, are less prone to stress and depression, and live longer. Important aspects of a happy life are:
- Physical health. Regular physical exercises, healthy diet, adequate sleep and absence of bad habits.
- Mental health. Stress management, emotional stability, positive thinking and maintaining social connections.
- Balance in life. Harmony between work, rest and personal life.
Hypnosis is a powerful tool for improving mental health and achieving happiness. Hypnotherapy uses hypnosis to treat various mental and physical disorders. The main areas of use of hypnosis include:
- Treatment of anxiety disorders. Hypnosis helps reduce anxiety and stress.
- Overcoming phobias. It is used to treat phobias and other fears.
- Improving sleep. Helps fight insomnia and improve sleep quality.
- Pain reduction. Effective in reducing chronic pain and pain during medical procedures.
- Increasing self-esteem and motivation: Helps people feel more confident and motivated.
Day of the dental technician
Since 2000, an unofficial professional holiday – the Day of the dental technician – has been celebrated. This holiday is dedicated to honoring the work of dental technicians who play a key role in creating and maintaining dental health. This day emphasizes the importance of their contribution to the dental industry, providing quality dental services and improving the quality of life of patients.
Dental technicians are an important part of the dental team. They specialize in the creation and repair of dentures, crowns, bridges and other orthodontic appliances. The main tasks of dental technicians include: creating removable and fixed prostheses to restore the function and aesthetics of teeth, reconstructing teeth to ensure their function and natural appearance, creating braces and other devices to correct the bite, and correcting and updating existing dental devices to ensure their effectiveness and comfort.
The work of a dental technician requires knowledge of such sciences as mathematics, physics, chemistry, anatomy, as well as mastering the skills of engraving and metalwork.
Historical events on this day:
1909 – Frenchman Louis Bleriot made the world’s first flight across the English Channel in a monoplane of his own design.
1920 – Evgeny Petrushevich formed the foreign government of the West Ukrainian People’s Republic (ZUNR) in Vienna.
1947 – u The First World Youth Festival opened in Prague.
1952 – The US Congress recognized Puerto Rico as a “voluntarily acceding state”.
1957 – Tunisia officially renounced the monarchy.
1963 – Great Britain, the USSR and the USA signed a treaty banning nuclear tests in air, space and underwater.
1978 – u The first person conceived through artificial insemination was born in Great Britain.
2008 – Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I began his visit to Ukraine.
2017 – Nationalist forces in Ukraine announced the start of an open-ended “Black List” action aimed at eliminating collaborative businesses.
July 25, 1934 the legendary Nestor Ivanovich Makhno, one of the brightest characters of the Civil War, died in a Paris hospital for the poor – a Ukrainian revolutionary, an anarchist, known as the commander of the peasant rebel army in the south of Ukraine during the civil war and the creator of councils without communists. On July 28, his body was cremated, and the urn with ashes was embedded in the wall of the columbarium of the Père Lachaise cemetery in cell number 6685. He remained in popular memory as “Father Makhno” and the author of many interesting ideas and statements:
- Beat the reds until they turn white, beat the whites until they turn red!
- There are no parties, there are bunches of charlatans who, for the sake of personal gains and thrills, destroy the working people.
- So that the war would not be boring, we made a secret agreement with the red comrades and the white masters: not to kill prostitutes and artists…
- Power breeds parasites — long live anarchy!
- No person or group of persons can impose their opinion, desire and will on other people.
- Refusal to force some people by others to participate in any activity against their will, even if it is in the interests of the whole society.
- Any public structures should be created by freely united people who have an equal right to determine the future of society.
- Power should be decentralized both territorially and branch-wise. Unions of workers can create bodies with clear tasks, which do not have the right to appropriate additional powers and unite into a single system of executive power. Communication between them is carried out through the self-government of the workers – congresses of councils.
- “I asked myself the question: from whose person is such a tongue twister required, when I do not know him? I understood that this is a demand of fictitious Ukrainians, born under the rough boot of the German-Austro-Hungarian cadetship, who tried to match the fashionable tone.”
The people believed in Makhno’s father, considered him a legendary national leader who would die, but would not betray or abandon ordinary people. In honor of Makhno, an anarchist battalion named after him fought on the side of the republicans in Spain during the civil war.
July 24, 1775 in the family of a baker, Eugène Francois Vidoc was born – a French criminal who later became the first head of the Main Directorate of National Security, and later one of the first modern private detectives and the “father” of criminal investigation in its modern form.
As a child, he was a “difficult” teenager – at the age of 14 he killed his fencing teacher. He decided to run away from the city and go to America, but spent all the money on an actress, a lady of easy behavior. After that, he was an actor, a circus performer, a sailor, a puppeteer, and eventually joined the Bourbon regiment. He turned out to be a bad soldier: while serving in the army, he participated in 15 duels, suffered many disciplinary sanctions, until he became a real arrestee for beating an officer who had seduced one of his girlfriends. He ran away and fell into a band of robbers. He was arrested again and sentenced to hard labor.
Behind the bars, he was called the “king of risk” and “werewolf”. He distinguished himself even in prison: he forged documents so successfully that he received a new term for it. He ran away again and lived in Paris for ten years under a different name, selling clothes.
When his former cellmates began to blackmail him, Vidok turned to the prefecture, where he offered his secret services. They were accepted and highly appreciated – he was entrusted to lead a special unit of the criminal police, which identified criminal elements while working undercover. Later, this department grew into “Surte” – the French criminal police. Thanks to his activities, by 1820, the crime rate in Paris decreased by 40%. The main principle of his work is that in order to catch a criminal, one must be able to think like a criminal.
The main rule of the department’s work was covert measures aimed at detaining criminals red-handed during the commission of a crime. Vidok was the first to put into practice the daily work of plainclothes operatives. Gathering evidence with the help of a complex of secret measures, legend and involvement in cooperation is also his innovation. In addition to the search, he contributed to the birth and development of traceology and criminology by developing permanent inks and plaster casts of shoe traces. He created a system of operational registration of offenders, which became ubiquitous and has survived to this day with minor changes.
Vidok was the first among the police chiefs to turn to representatives of science to carry out a scientific and technical examination of the physical evidence and items found at the scene of the crime (in particular, the first ballistic examination in history), conducted investigative experiments to reproduce the picture of the crime.
After finally leaving the police, Vidok organized his own “Investigation Bureau”, also the first in the world. Vidok is considered one of the first professional private detectives. He was approached by high-ranking officials, he knew many dirty secrets, and participated in the investigation of strange and mysterious cases.
In addition, Vidok is the main character of the adventure novel. Eugene Xu used many of his stories in “Mysteries of Paris”. Jean Valjean and at the same time Inspector Javert in Victor Hugo is also Vidoc. Edgar Poe mentions the name of a former criminal who became a detective in his works. Vidocq is called the prototype of the fugitive Vautrin, a character in several of Balzac’s works. Even Pushkin, although not flatteringly, mentions him in an epigram.
In the last years of his life, Eugene Francois Vidoc often regretted that, due to the mistakes of his youth, he did not become as great as Murat or Kleber. He died in 1857 at the age of 81, leaving a bright mark in history, especially in criminology.
