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March 1 in the world – World Prayer Day, World Compliment Day, World Civil Defense Day, Zero Discrimination Day, Spring Festival.
Independence Day of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Day of the Korean Independence Movement, National Day of Colored Women in the USA, St. David’s Day in Great Britain, Beer Day in Iceland.
In Ukraine – the Day of Mourning in memory of the Koryukivka tragedy – the mass murder of 6,700 residents of the village of Koryukivka, carried out in 1943 by units of the SS and the Hungarian military gendarmerie during World War II.
In 1977, a monument to the Ukrainian philosopher Hryhoriy Skovoroda was opened in Kyiv.
The Orthodox Church honors the memory of the venerable martyr Evdokia.
World Civil Defense Day
World Civil Defense Day is celebrated annually on March 1.
In 1931, on the initiative of several states, the “Association of Geneva Zones” – “security zones” – was founded in Paris to create local security zones in all countries with the help of bilateral and multilateral agreements.
The founder was the French general of the medical service, Georges Saint-Paul.
Subsequently, the Association was transformed into the International Civil Defense Organization. In 1972, MOTSO received the status of an intergovernmental organization. At present, there are 60 member states of the ICRC, 16 states have the status of observers, and more than twenty are associate members. The work of MOTCO is organized by the General Assembly, the Executive Council and the Secretariat.
Day “Zero Discrimination”
The Day of “Zero Discrimination”, or the Day of Combating Discrimination, is celebrated annually on March 1 by the decision of the United Nations since 2014.
The initiator of the establishment of the Anti-Discrimination Day was the head of UNAIDS – the United Nations Joint Program on HIV/AIDS.
From the very beginning, the founders of the new date tried to draw attention to the problems of people with HIV and AIDS. And it was then not only about the problems of treatment or the search for medicines to save the sick, but also about the fact that the ignorance of the surrounding symptoms and features of this disease gave rise to an animalistic fear of the healthy in front of the sick. And this fear was transformed into a special, unhealthy attitude towards HIV and AIDS patients, which is manifested in ugliness, efforts to isolate infected people, making them outcasts. All this limits patients’ access to medical care and negatively affects their treatment.
The UN notes that the consequences of inequality are felt by 70 percent of the world’s population: it is a significant obstacle to economic and social development.
On this day:
1912 – In St. Louis, Albert Berry made the first jump with a parachute from an airplane (altitude 460 m);
1918 – The troops of the Ukrainian People’s Republic and Germany liberated Kyiv from the Bolsheviks;
1928 – In the USA, Dr. Herbert Evans discovered the sixth vitamin, accordingly named vitamin F;
1941 – The first commercial FM radio went on the air – radio station W47NV in Nashville;
1943 – A mass demonstration in support of the Jews of Europe was held in New York;
1947 – The International Monetary Fund began its activities;
1961 – US President John Kennedy announced the creation of the Peace Corps;
1976 – The Parliament of Great Britain approved new traffic rules, according to which the use of seat belts became mandatory;
1991 – Miners of Donbas went on strike, putting forward political demands for the first time (resignation of Gorbachev);
1995 – Austria, Sweden and Finland join the EU;
1998 – The partnership and cooperation agreement between the European Union and Ukraine entered into force.
2000 – The companies Confinity (Peter Thiel, Maximilian Levchin) and X.com (Elon Musk) approved a plan to merge into the PayPal payment system.
Church holiday
Saint Evdokia of Iliopolis, whose memory is commemorated on this day, is an early Christian martyr. In her youth, she was distinguished by her beauty and, being a harlot, earned a huge fortune. Eudokia was converted to Christianity by the monk Herman. After that, she gave all her possessions to the bishop of Heliopolis, and she herself took monastic vows in a women’s monastery, where she later became an abbess. When the governor Diogenes saw Eudokia, he was fascinated by her beauty and tried to possess her. Despite the torture, the nun remained faithful to her vow.
Name day: Alexander, Oleksandra, Anna, Anton, Antonina, Vasyl, Benjamin, Evdokia, Ivan, Mykhailo, Nadiya, Olga, Petro.