Holidays
Global
Family Day, (One
Day of Peace and Sharing) is celebrated every January 1 around the world as
a global day of peace and sharing. It is a day where individuals and families
share food with friends (especially the needy), make personal pledges of
nonviolence, and spread a message of peace and sharing by ringing bells or
beating a drum in hopes of making society and the world a safer place to live.
Global Family Day grew out of the United Nations Millennium celebration,
"One Day In Peace."
New Year's Day is observed on January 1, the first
day of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as the Julian calendar
used in ancient Rome.
With most countries using the Gregorian calendar as their main calendar, New
Year's Day is the closest thing to being the world's only truly global public holiday,
often celebrated with fireworks at the stroke of midnight as the new year
starts. January 1 on the Julian calendar currently corresponds to January 14 on
the Gregorian calendar, and it is on that date that followers of some of the Eastern
Orthodox churches celebrate the New Year. New Year's Day is a postal holiday in
the United States.
Births
Georgi 'Gorsha' Sur is a former ice dancer who
represented the United States
and the Soviet Union. With Svetlana Liapina
for the Soviet Union, he is a two-time World
Junior medalist. With Renée Roca for the U.S.,
he is a two-time U.S.
national champion (1993, 1995).
Sergei Vyacheslavovich
Kiriakov is a
retired Russian football player. He played for a few clubs, including FC Dynamo
Moscow, Karlsruher SC, Hamburger SV, Tennis
Borussia Berlin
and Yunnan Hongta. He played for the Russia national football team and
was a participant at UEFA Euro 1992 and UEFA Euro 1996. His younger brother Yegor
Kiryakov also played football professionally.
Andrei Stoliarov is a Russian professional tennis
player and a former member of the Russia Davis Cup team.
Georgi "Gorsha" Sur is an ex-Soviet American . He defected to the United States on January 24, 1990. Once in the States, he paired up with with the intention of skating professionally with her. When the allowed pros to reinstate, Roca and Sur did and they won two . Roca and Sur attempted to accelerate Sur's citizenship so they could compete in the Olympics, but it was successfully blocked. After retiring from competitive skating, Roca and Sur toured with . Although Sur has been credited as being the indirect cause of the phenomenon in American skating, it is important to note that he came to the United States and settled there legitimately, with no intention of ever competing again. Sur currently works as a coach and choreographer and is based out of Oakland Ice Center.
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