Eastern Christians celebrate Easter on this day. In addition, May 5 is a holiday of clean hands, because today is World Hand Hygiene Day. Professional holidays on this day are celebrated by midwives and caricaturists around the world. Also, on May 5, the ideologist of socialism Karl Marx was born and Napoleon Bonaparte died.
Holidays and commemorative dates:
Easter – the biggest holiday for Christians all over the world. The Easter holiday symbolizes the victory of life over death and holiness over sin. It is celebrated on different days every year, as they are based on the lunar calendar. The calculation of the date of Easter is not tied to the date, but to the vernal equinox and the full moon. Easter should be celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon, after the vernal equinox. All Orthodox and Greek Catholics continue to celebrate this main Christian holiday on the same day. This year, Roman Catholics celebrated Easter five weeks earlier – on March 31.
World Hand Hygiene Day – this holiday has been celebrated since 2008. The World Health Organization, the United Nations and UNICEF took the initiative to dedicate a separate date to such an important factor as personal hygiene. The purpose of establishing Hand Hygiene Day was to stop outbreaks of infectious diseases around the world and to remind about the need for personal hygiene.
International Day of the Midwife – this date has been celebrated since 1991 in more than 50 countries of the world. The UN emphasizes that the survival or death of nearly 300,000 women and 3 million babies every year depends on qualified midwives. In addition, the role of midwives in voluntary family planning can help prevent 87 million unplanned pregnancies, many of which end in unsafe abortions in developing countries.
International Day of Struggle for the Rights of the Disabled – On May 5, 1992, people with disabilities from 17 countries simultaneously held the first Pan-European day of struggle for equal rights and against discrimination of disabled people.
Day of cartoonists – the holiday has been celebrated since 1999. It is dedicated to the release of the cartoon “The Yellow Kid” in 1895. This caricature gave the name to the entire direction of mass media – the yellow press.
Events on this day:
1818 – Karl Heinrich Marx was born – a German philosopher-materialist, a protagonist of the workers’ socialist movement and one of the founders of the First International.
1821 – the French commander and emperor Napoleon I Bonaparte died.
1836 – the first railway in Europe began operating in Belgium.
1893 — the first kindergarten appeared on the territory of present-day Ukraine. In the village In Zhuzhel in the Sokal region, the first cemetery (kindergarten) in Galicia was founded in the premises of the first monastery of the Sisters of the Servants of the Immaculate Virgin Mary.
1900 – in the village In the wasteland of Snyatinsky District, Kyrylo Trilovskyi founded the first sports and fire society “Sich”.
1915 — the General Ukrainian Council, an all-Ukrainian political organization, an extension of the Galician Main Ukrainian Council, was established in Vienna
1920 — the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was proclaimed.
1922 — Ukrainian writer Anatoly Dimarov was born.
1921 – Coco Chanel in France first presented the perfume “Chanel No. 5”, which later became the most popular fragrance in the world.
1949 — The Council of Europe began to operate.
1961 – Alan Shepard became the first American to fly into space.
1988 — the first telecast from the top of Everest began.
