We are the 215th day of the year and we celebrate Saint Julien. Born in La Mure, in Isère, he founded an institute of the Blessed Sacrament which he would direct until his death in 1868.
The sun rises one minute later at 6:27 a.m. and sets one minute earlier at 9:26 p.m.
As for the saying of the day, remember: " August heat is good everywhere".
Some August 2
1589: Henri IV ascends the throne of France
1914: birth of Canadian singer Félix Leclerc (died August 8, 1988)
1940: De Gaulle sentenced to death in absentia by the Clermont-Ferrand military tribunal
1990: Saddam Hussein's Iraqi troops invade Kuwait
1996: death of Michel Debré, former Prime Minister, father of the Constitution of the Fifth Republic
2002: Turkey abolishes the death penalty except in times of war
2003: start of a deadly heat wave in Europe
2018: Apple makes Wall Street history by becoming the first private company in the world to cross the $ 1 trillion mark on the stock market
They left us on August 2
1973 Jean-Pierre Melville, director and screenwriter
1976: Fritz Lang, German director and screenwriter
1992: Michel Berger, singer-songwriter
1996: Michel Debré, former Prime Minister, father of the Constitution of the Fifth Republic
It's their birthday
Michel del Castillo, Spanish-French writer born in 1933
Alain Giresse, football player and coach born in 1952
Muriel Robin, actress and humorist born in 1955
Michèle Bernier, actress and humorist born in 1956
