January 26 – Day of the employee of the control and audit service
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January 26 marks the Day of the State Audit Service of Ukraine, the International Day of the Customs Officer and the World Day of Environmental Education. Believers honor the memory of Saints Xenophon and Mary.
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Day of the employee of the State Audit Service of Ukraine
In 1993, the Law “On the State Control and Audit Service in Ukraine” was signed, the legal successor of which is the State Audit Service.
It is on the day of approval of this document, January 26, that auditors and auditors celebrate their professional holiday.
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The main tasks of the State Audit Service of Ukraine are the implementation of state policy in the field of state financial control. The service monitors the state of the financial balance and the reliability of reports on the expenditure of state funds.
The services of the employees of the state unit are needed primarily by management bodies and budget institutions for checking the expenditure of money received from the Ukrainian treasury.
International Customs Day
On January 26, the world celebrates customs officer’s day. The holiday was created to unite all customs services in the world and show solidarity between them.
In November 1952, the Convention on the Formation of the Customs Cooperation Council entered into force. On January 26, 1953, the first session of the Customs Cooperation Council (now known as the World Customs Organization since 1994) took place in Brussels. 17 European countries were represented at the session by the heads of their customs services.
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30 years later, in 1983, this very day, January 26, was chosen as an annual holiday – the International Day of the Customs Officer.
World Day of Environmental Education
January 26 marks the World Day of Environmental Education, which was initiated by international organizations. The event is timed to draw people’s attention to the problems of environmental pollution. People can influence the quality of their lives through increased environmental awareness, which is the main and ultimate goal of celebrating the holiday on January 26.
World Environmental Education Day was started in 1972 in Stockholm at a UN seminar. But it was after the International Conference on the Environment in Belgrade in 1975 and the publication of the special Belgrade Charter of Eco-Education that the ceremony was approved at the official level. Traditionally, all citizens of European countries participate in the celebration of the event, going out to clean yards and streets.
What a religious holiday today
January 26 in the church calendar is the day of memory of Saints Xenophon and Mary. Xenophon and Maria were a couple from Byzantium who lived in the 5th century and were famous for their piety and charity. They had two sons, Arcadius and John, who also became saints. They belonged to a noble family and had a lot of property, but they were not attached to earthly goods and distributed them to the poor and churches.
Once the sons sailed to another city to study on a ship and got caught in a strong storm. They escaped, but ended up on different shores. Considering each other as dead, they entered the monasteries, where they gave themselves to God. The parents, having learned about the shipwreck, also thought that their sons had drowned. They went on farewell to Jerusalem, where they met their children, who also arrived in the city. After the joyful meeting, the sons went to the desert, and the parents gave away all their property and entered the monasteries.
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What can not be done on this day
- Do not clean, especially wash the floor.
- You should not quarrel, slander, swear.
- It is better not to start new cases, because they can bring losses.
Folk signs
- If there is a blizzard, then the winter will still be fierce.
- Clear and quiet day before early and warm spring.
- The sunset is clear and cloudless – expect severe frost.
- If the weather is sunny, spring will come early and be warm.
Commemorative events on January 26
- 1244 – the name of the settlement Berlin appeared in the chronicles for the first time.
- 1500 – the first Europeans arrived in Brazil, opening the mouth of the Amazon.
- 1582 – a peace treaty was signed in Yam-Zapolska between Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth – a truce for a period of 10 years; one of the diplomatic acts that ended the Livonian War of 1558–1583.
- 1788 – The First Fleet anchored in Port Jackson Bay, while Captain Philip raised the British flag and founded the first European settlement in Australia, Sydney.
- 1875 – American George Green patented the first drill that operated from electric batteries.
- 1893 – Benz built a four-wheeled car that became the basis for many successful racing cars.
- 1918 – Bolshevik troops led by Mykhailo Muravyov occupied Kyiv after the assault.
- 1919 – the Makhnovists signed an agreement on joint actions with the Bolsheviks.
- 1923 – the literary union “Hart” was established in Kharkiv.
- 1926 – Scottish inventor John Bird demonstrated the world’s first working television system.
- 1934 – the Hitler-Pilsudski Pact was signed between Germany and Poland.
- [1945–SoviettroopsoccupiedthePolishcityofAuschwitzandfreedthesurvivingprisonersoftheconcentrationcampLatertheconcentrationcampwasusedasaSovietconcentrationcampuntil1949
- 1962 – the Ranger 3 space station was launched in the USA, which was supposed to deliver scientific equipment to the Moon. Launch failed.
- 1990 – the Belarusian language was declared the only state language of the Belarusian SSR.
- 1992 – Ukraine established diplomatic relations with Japan.
- 1993 – the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists was created.
- 2000 – in Argentina, archaeologists found the remains of the largest dinosaur in the history of our planet.
- 2001 – the Ukrainian ship “Memory of Mercury” sank in the Black Sea, with 54 people on board. 12 people died, eight went missing.
Name day
Arkady, Ivan, Peter, Semyon, Fedir, Maria are celebrating Angel’s Day today.
