On October 19, Russia celebrates Lyceum Student Day. This tradition began on October 19 (31 according to the new style) October 1811. This day was marked by the opening of the famous Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, which graduated dozens of famous personalities. The Lyceum was founded by order of Alexander I for his brothers. The idea of ​​creating it for him was suggested by the famous reformer M. M. Speransky. The institution was intended to train dignitaries of the highest level. Subsequently, graduates celebrated this opening day of the alma mater by coming to the lyceum lunch, and subsequently arranging friendly gatherings. In modern Russia, the celebration began in the early 90s of the 20th century, when schools began to acquire the prestigious status of gymnasiums and lyceums. "Lyceum" in Ancient Greece was the name of a gymnasium on the outskirts of Athens. The gymnasium provided general education along with intensive physical training. The teachers there were Socrates and Aristotle. In Russia, until the beginning of the 20th century, the lyceum was considered a higher educational institution; before the revolution, only 7 lyceums functioned. At the end of the same century, a lyceum began to be called an educational institution that prepares for study at a university. In modern times, a lyceum is a school or secondary specialized institution, most often with a physics and mathematics focus. The solemn date of October 19 was glorified to a greater extent by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, an eminent graduate of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. For him, this exclusively male educational institution was his home; he considered his classmates to be his best friends, and his teachers to be his senior comrades. It is significant that the poet’s lyceum friends (the good-natured Wilhelm Kuchelbecker and the Decembrist Ivan Pushchin) supported him all his life. And although he was not distinguished by extraordinary zeal in his studies (he was 4th from the bottom on the report card), Pushkin loved his alma mater. The genius of Russian poetry wrote many poems entitled “October 19”, where he praised friendship and a storehouse of knowledge - his native Lyceum. All-Russian Lyceum Student Day is celebrated within educational institutions. Graduates come to their lyceums, meet with teachers and former classmates. The administration holds open days, organizing reporting concerts for the public. Students learn the history of their institution and meet famous alumni. Teachers share innovative teaching experiences through open lessons. This day is especially celebrated in St. Petersburg. The organizers organize theatrical performances and balls. The most significant event is the Lyceum Autumn festival. Thus, All-Russian Lyceum Student Day is a wonderful holiday, reviving the traditions of school community and mutual assistance, reminding us of the luminary of Russian poetry - Pushkin.

It is difficult for a person to plan for the distant future if he does not periodically analyze the present. You can take stock, evaluate and review your goals on October 19th during Evaluate Your Life Day. A funny holiday encourages you to take a fresh look at the events of the past and present in order to understand how happy you are and whether something needs to be changed in order to achieve inner harmony and balance. The initiators of more than 80 memorable days are the American theater and film actor Thomas Roy and his wife Ruth. The dates of the unique celebrations, the reasons and reasons for their celebration are published on the website of the married couple wellcat.com. Each day is copyrighted by the Thomas family, who have privately trademarked Wellcat Holiday & Herbs. Artistic celebrations have become popular after being advertised online, featured in the Los Angeles Times, and featured on television shows. Among the celebrations invented by the Roys, there are many absurd and even strange ones: for example, Walk with Your Own Flowers Day, during which owners are invited to walk down the street with their indoor plants. The Wellcat Holiday & Herbs list includes holidays on the national Chase Calendar of Events - celebrations honoring jerks, grumpy co-workers, cat herders, lip appreciation, etc. Rate Your Life Day is enjoyed by most people who think cheerfully, positively and are optimistic about the future. What do people do in honor of Evaluate Your Life Day? October 19 is celebrated by everyone who wants to understand what stage of their life’s journey they are at. On this day, people are invited to soberly assess the circumstances and people around them, answering the question: “Am I happy?” Evaluate Your Life Day helps to reconsider previously set goals and ways to achieve them if a person feels depressed and dissatisfied with life. Psychologists suggest on this day to analyze the state of your own affairs and understand what brings satisfaction and joy, and what irritates and depresses. Yes, the “Evaluate Your Life” holiday can be associated with painful reflections and unpleasant discoveries. However, they are the ones who will help in planning the future and determining ways to achieve your goals. As a result of this annual recapitulation (as one of the energy practices is called), held on October 19, new bright prospects appear on the horizon. You will discover amazing discoveries about yourself and the people with whom you interact. Life begins to shine with bright colors, understanding and confidence comes that every new day is a step towards a happy future.

In the USSR in the late 1960s and early 1970s, it was very popular to lay capsules under monuments or wall them up in the walls of buildings, which contained messages for posterity. Their opening and reading were timed to coincide with memorable dates - the 100th anniversary of the Komsomol or the anniversary of Soviet power. “We believe that you have perfectly equipped our beautiful blue planet Earth, mastered the Moon and landed on Mars,” the builders of communism wrote to their descendants. An unusual holiday is dedicated to this tradition. October 19 is the Day of Writing a Letter to the Future. In honor of the celebration, parents and grandparents write messages to their children and grandchildren, which the recipient will read after a while. In their letters, they share their life experiences with the younger generation, give instructions, imagine how a person dear to them will live after 20, 30 years... Charlie Chaplin, Albert Einstein and Francis sent messages to the future about love and good attitude towards people Scott Fitzgerald, to his grandson about the need to know history and train his memory - Umberto Eco. Words written from the heart, in the form of letters to his son, remained as a keepsake for fans of Evgeniy Mironov’s talent. Joseph Brodsky's poem, which he dedicated to his daughter Anna Maria Alexandra, is widely known. At the time of its writing, in 1994, the girl was only one and a half years old. The poet did not have long to live - he died in 1996 from long-standing heart disease. Therefore, the poem is a kind of farewell to Brodsky with his daughter, a letter with a declaration of love and parting words in life. To compose sincere and heartfelt messages, you do not need to have a penchant for writing. If literary talent is present, and there is a desire to share something important with people, then you can write a book. The most famous works of this kind include “Letters to my son” by V.A. Sukhomlinsky. In them, the famous teacher talks about morality and ethics, the civic duty of the Soviet person. The builders of communism - workers and representatives of the intelligentsia who took part in the laying of the "time capsules" - also wrote about this. They believed that the future "would bring decisive victories to progressive humanity in its struggle against the sworn enemy of all peoples - imperialism." Soviet people living in the Brezhnev era were convinced that their descendants had discovered the secrets of nature, learned to control the weather and climate, so they planted gardens even in the Arctic. On October 19, essays are addressed not only to children and grandchildren, but also to friends, acquaintances and even to themselves. So, according to tradition, at the graduation party, schoolchildren write letters by hand, which are opened after 5 or 10 years during a meeting within the walls of their alma mater. The epistolary genre allows you to share thoughts and feelings that are considered premature to voice or are embarrassed to express out loud. The Day of Writing a Letter to the Future helps you realize these and other innermost desires by writing a message to your descendants.

Osteoporosis is a chronic disease that affects not only older people. A lack of calcium in the blood is observed in children and adolescents, as is transient synovitis, congenital hip dysplasia, and other pathologies of the musculoskeletal system. The most common diseases include postural defects, flat feet, club feet, scoliosis and torticollis. To raise awareness about these diseases, methods of treatment and prevention, World Children's Bone and Joint Day was established. Since 2012, World Pediatric Bone and Joint Day has been celebrated annually on October 19th. The celebration was founded by a group of pediatricians concerned about the increasing number of musculoskeletal diseases in young patients. Over the past 5 years, this figure for children has increased by 22%, and for adolescents - by 47%. Pathologies are often the result of physical inactivity and obesity, rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis, fractures of the bones of the arms and legs due to injuries received on children's and sports grounds. The World Pediatric Bone and Joint Day program includes seminars, conferences and other events organized by the medical community. They also involve charities that raise funds for children and teenagers with joint and bone diseases. Open and closed fractures, like dislocations and sprains, can be short-term phenomena or lead to problems with the musculoskeletal system that remain for life. A decrease in motor activity, deterioration of motor skills and, in general, the functional capabilities of a young body leads to disability, which creates a burden on the healthcare system. The maintenance of children and adolescents with disabilities is one of the items in the state budget. Therefore, the treatment of diseases of the musculoskeletal system and their prevention concerns not only parents, but the entire society as a whole. WHO gives recommendations for maintaining the health of the musculoskeletal system, which include regular physical activity alternating exercises with high and moderate intensity, frequent changes of activities during study, limiting the time spent in front of a computer screen, etc. Adults should pay special attention to the condition bones and joints of adolescents, because During puberty, the skeleton grows and changes in the cardiovascular system are observed. These processes are regulated by physical activity, hardening the body and proper nutrition. World Children's Bone and Joint Day is ideal for parents and other relatives to show concern for the younger generation. To do this, you need to make an appointment with an orthopedist and purchase insoles to correct the position of your feet, visit the laboratory to take blood tests for vitamin D and calcium. After receiving the results, you should contact your pediatrician, who will prescribe vitamin complexes and give recommendations for the prevention of diseases of the musculoskeletal system.

During the East India Company, the main problem for Great Britain was not the resistance of the local population to the authority of the metropolis, but malaria. Scottish physician George Cleghorn suggested using cinchona bark to treat the disease. The crushed powder made from it contains quinine, an alkaloid that gives the healing drink a bitter taste. In order to neutralize it, it was decided to add sugar and sparkling water. This is how tonic water appeared, the use of which contributed to the prevention and treatment of malarial fever. The British mixed the bitter-sweet drink with gin, which dulled the harsh taste of quinine. Its most famous varieties include the invigorating Beefeater, the aromatic Bombay Sapphire and classics of the genre - Gordon’s and Tanqueray. This is how the famous gin and tonic cocktail and its variations appeared - “Negroni”, “French 75”, “Aviation”, etc. After the East India Company ceased to exist in 1798, the British returned home, bringing with them the traditions of drinking the popular cocktail. A holiday has been established in honor of the invigorating drink, which is drunk today in all countries and continents. October 19 is International Gin and Tonic Day. The homeland of the cinchona tree (lat. - Cínchona) is South America. Thanks to the plant, as legend has it, the wife of the governor of Spain in Peru was saved in 1638. His wife Countess Chinchon fell ill with Tertian fever (malaria), for the cure of which the Indians, according to another version - the Jesuits, advised the use of cinchona bark. It was crushed in a mortar and added to wine. “Red water” from the tree bark contained an alkaloid that was highly soluble in alcohol. It is possible that this is why, and not just to neutralize the bitter taste of quinine, tonic began to be consumed with gin. The plant was brought to Europe in the 1840s, and 20 years later its seedlings were smuggled into Indonesia, where the tonic was invented, which was the first to be produced on an industrial scale by Schweppes. Today, alcoholic cocktails are made not only with carbonated sweet drinks with quinine, but also with citric acid and other additives. It is believed that tonic maximizes the aroma of gin and emphasizes the taste of sloe or juniper, from the berries of which a drink with a strength of 37-40 degrees is prepared. Lime, cranberry or apple juice and a few ice cubes are also added to cocktails. The traditions of celebrating International Gin and Tonic Day are well known to bartenders and all alcohol lovers. October 19th is the perfect time to pop into a café or pub and order a classic cocktail to celebrate International Gin and Tonic Day.

On this day, Orthodox Christians honor the memory of the Apostle Thomas, who was one of the faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. On this day, it is popular among people to feed a loaf of bread to those who suffer from any illness. People believed that this would help the patient cope with the disease faster.

Conflict Resolution Day

International ShakeOut Day

Rescuer Day in Kazakhstan

Armenian Missile and Artillery Forces Day

Saint Ivan Rilski Day in Bulgaria

Mother Teresa Beatification Day in Albania

Lawyer's Day in the Republic of Moldova

The functioning of Islamic banking is based on compliance with the principles of Sharia, which prohibits receiving remuneration or interest for providing a loan. Muslims all over the world borrow money using the "mutual aid fund." Credit unions follow similar rules. These non-profit organizations providing financial assistance to citizens provide interest-free loans to those in need, which sets them apart from banks. A holiday has been established in honor of associations whose goal is not to make a profit, but to ensure the well-being of shareholders. Every year on the third Thursday of October, International Credit Union Day is celebrated. The list of festive events held for International Credit Union Day includes charity events, competitions, picnics and fairs. The celebration has been celebrated since 1948, although the first credit unions appeared in Russia in the mid-19th century, and their rapid growth in the USA occurred in the 30s. XX century The holiday was established in 1927 by the League of Credit Unions from Massachusetts. It was dedicated to honoring the memory of Benjamin Franklin, whom Americans remember annually on his birthday on January 17. The outstanding politician was born into the family of a craftsman and a housewife in Massachusetts. Therefore, at the initiative of the Credit Union League, Franklin's birthday became the date of the holiday. The celebration was not very popular either among shareholders or employees of organizations. The traditions of the celebration, which were forgotten for a while, were revived in 1948. At the initiative of the US Credit Union Association, International Day began to be celebrated in October. In honor of this, consumer cooperatives in 88 countries around the world hold open days, radio and television broadcasts, and other events. In modern Russia, the League of Credit Unions appeared in 1994 after a long period of calm that began in the 1930s, when the last cooperatives that still existed during the NEP were liquidated. The history of savings and loan partnerships in our country goes back more than a hundred years. According to official data, in 1914, 1117 mutual credit societies were opened in the Russian Empire, which united about 8 million members. The cooperative's working capital amounted to 782.8 million rubles - an impressive amount for those times. Today, national leagues of credit unions in many countries around the world promote the promotion and formation of a democratic economy, uniting citizens and non-profit organizations to provide mutual assistance - providing them with cheap and accessible loans. International Credit Union Day is intended to remind society of the existence of consumer cooperatives and the important role they play.

Orthodox holidays on October 19:

Memorial Day of Hieromartyr John Rybin, presbyter

Feast of the Icon of the Mother of God of Arapet (Arabia)

Memorial Day of the Apostle Thomas