Holidays and commemorative dates:
International Yoga Day – was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly on December 11, 2014 to raise global awareness of the benefits of yoga. Yoga is a universal practice that can be performed anywhere and by anyone, regardless of age, gender, culture or nationality. Yoga is a complex of psychopractices, spiritual, mental and physical methods for changing consciousness, body and psyche.
World Hydrography Day – established in 2006 by the International Hydrographic Organization under a UN resolution. The purpose of the day is to raise awareness of the importance of hydrography in improving knowledge and understanding of the seas and oceans.
World Giraffe Day – founded in 2014 by the Giraffe Conservation Fund. The purpose of this holiday is to draw attention to the problems of conservation of these unique animals. The giraffe population has declined by 40% over the past 15 years due to armed conflicts, expansion of agricultural areas and poaching.
World Humanism Day – celebrated annually on June 21, the day of the June solstice. It was founded in 1986 at the World Congress of the International Humanist and Ethical Union in Oslo. The purpose of this day is to spread awareness about humanism as a philosophy of life and its positive values, as well as to promote the unification of people who support the ideas of humanism.
Day of the employee of the regulated price control service – the professional holiday began to be celebrated after the adoption of the Law of Ukraine “On Prices and Pricing”, which defines the basic principles of pricing policy and regulates the relations that arise in the process of formation, setting and application of prices, as well as the implementation of state control and surveillance in the sphere of pricing.
Events on this day:
1915 – Kazimir Malevich painted the painting “Black Square” in the country village of Kuntseve. This is one of the most discussed paintings, an “icon” of the world avant-garde.
Malevich worked on sketches of scenery and costumes for the opera “Victory over the Sun”. In these sketches, the image of the “black square” appeared for the first time, which at the time meant the victory of active human creativity over the passive form of nature: the black square appeared instead of the solar circle. The artist dated the appearance of the square to 1913: it is this date that the artist put on the back of the canvas depicting the square. The author did not attach any importance to the actual date of creation of the picture, but emphasized the date of birth of the idea of Suprematism itself.
Malevich commented on his work as follows: “The main supremacist element. Square. 1913”
Simultaneously with the Black Square, the Black Circle and the Black Cross were created. By the way, there are also “Red” and “White” squares.
It is said that Malevich himself did not expect such an effect from the picture and said that he did not quite clearly understand what it could mean.
1963 – Cardinal Giovanni Montini was elected the 261st pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Paul VI.
1971 – Ukrainian archaeologist Borys Mozolevskyi found the famous Scythian pectoral during the excavations of the Fat Grave.
