Today’s holiday is St. Andrew’s Day – a public holiday in Romania.
St. Andrew’s Day has been a national holiday in Romania since 2015. St. Andrew is the patron saint of Romania and the Romanian Orthodox Church and is credited with spreading the gospel to Romania.
More than 900,000 Romanians will celebrate their name day on November 30th, with popular variants of the name being Andrei, Andraș, Andruș, Andreas, Andreiu, Endre, András, for men, and Andreea, Andra, Andrada, Andruța, Deia, Deea, for women. St. Andrew is also the patron saint of Scotland.
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Today is the birthday, in 1953, of June Pointer, youngest of the founding members of The Pointer Sisters. They had many hits including this one in which she is the lead vocalist.
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