Daily Calendar - June 15

The 166th day of the year, 199 days left until the New Year.

Church Calendar

Nikephoros the Confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople (828).

The High Priest Nikephoros the Confessor was born in Constantinople in the eighth century. He received a good education. During the reign of Leo IV, Saint Nikephoros received the position of advisor to the emperor. After the death of Leo IV, during the reign of Constantine VI, in 787, an ecumenical church council was held in Nicaea, at which the iconoclastic heresy was condemned.

As a scholar of Holy Scripture, Nikephoros came out in defense of Orthodoxy, thereby providing great assistance to the holy monks participating in the council. After the accession of the iconoclastic Emperor Leo V of Armenia, the era of persecution began again. Saint Nicephorus was exiled first to the Chrysopolis Monastery, and then to the island of Prokonis. He died in 828.

Born:

1606 — Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn, painter.

1760 _ Julon Batonishvili, son of Erekle II, one of the leaders of the Mtiuleti uprising of 1804. Died in 1827. Õ

1843 — Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer, conductor, pianist.

1867 — Konstantin Balmont, Russian poet-symbolist. Died in 1942.

1926 _ Zurab Laperadze, Georgian theater and film actor.

1933 - Boris Tsipuria, Georgian actor.

1969 _ Irma Nioradze, famous Georgian ballerina.

Died:

1844 - Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet.

1849 - James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States.

Events:

763 BC - The first recorded solar eclipse in Nineveh (Assyria).

1520 - Pope Leo X excommunicated the reformer Martin Luther.

1836 - Arkansas became the 25th state of the United States.

1919 - English aviators John William Elcock and Arthur Brown landed in Ireland in a Vickers aircraft. They completed the flight, which began from the Canadian island of Newfoundland. They flew across the Atlantic Ocean, which took them 16 hours and 27 minutes.

1924 — Edgar Hoover was appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

1994 — The Vatican and Israel established diplomatic relations.

Memorable days:

Azerbaijan - National Salvation Day

Denmark - King Valdemar II and the Danish Flag Day

Costa Rica - Tree Planting Day

Kyrgyzstan - Firefighters' Day

South Korea - Agriculture Day

Japan - Sano Matsui Festival