We are the 171st day of the year, we celebrate Saint Romuald. Born in Ravenna (Italy), died in Val di Castro in 1027, he converted after a libertine youth and founded the Camaldolese order in Tuscany.
The sun rises a minute later at 5:49 am and sets a minute later at 9:56 pm. The saying: " In June too much rain, the gardener is bored "
Some June 19
1623: birth of Blaise Pascal, mathematician and philosopher (died August 19, 1662)
1805: birth of the architect Victor Baltard (died January 13, 1874)
1885: France offers the United States the statue of Liberty, by Bartholdi
1953: execution in the United States of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, accused of spying for the benefit of the USSR
1964: Éric Tabarly at the helm of his ketch “ Pen-Duick II ”, arrives winner in Newport of the 2nd solo Transat
1965: Boumedienne takes power in Algeria and will keep it until his death in 1978
1986: accidental death on a motorcycle of the actor Coluche
2017: NASA's Kepler space telescope discovers ten new exoplanets, about the size of Earth, located in the habitable zone of their stars
It's their birthday
Gena Rowlands, American actress born in 1930
Françoise Chandernagor, writer born in 1945
Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician born in 1945
Salman Rushdie, British writer of Indian descent born in 1947
Anne Hidalgo, politician born in 1959
Jean Dujardin, actor born in 1972