We are the 222nd day of the year. We celebrate Saint-Amour, honored martyr in Franche-Comté, in the village of Saint-Amour, in the Jura.
The sun rises one minute later at 6:37 a.m. and sets two minutes earlier at 9:14 p.m. The saying of the day is: " either in a meadow or in the sun, sleep is harmful in August ".
Others August 9
1803: Robert Fulton operates the first steamboat on the Seine
1896: birth of psychologist Jean Piaget (died September 16, 1980)
1919: first appearance of the character Zorro in a Californian pulp magazine, under the title " The scourge of Capistrano " born from the pen of Johnston McCulley
1945: the second American atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki
1969: assassination of actress Sharon Tate in her villa in California
1974: The Watergate scandal leads to the resignation of President Richard Nixon
1975: death of the Soviet composer Dimitri Shostakovich
1982: attack on rue des Rosiers in Paris. Six dead, 22 injured
1983: French Operation Manta begins in Chad to counter a rebel offensive backed by Libya
1993: Prince Albert of Liège, appointed as successor to his brother Baudouin I, becomes King of the Belgians
1999: Russian President Boris Yeltsin appoints Vladimir Poutine Prime Minister
2007: in the United States, start of the subprime crisis which will result in a global financial crisis
2012: Jamaican Usain Bolt becomes in London, the first runner in history to achieve twice in a row the 100m and 200m double at the Olympic Games
2014: death of the ice cream maker Raymond Berthillon, founder of the famous eponymous house of Ile Saint-Louis in Paris
It's their birthday
Romano Prodi, Italian politician born in 1939
Bulle Ogier, actress born in 1939
Jean Tirole, Nobel laureate in economics born in 1953
Audrey Tautou, actress born in 1976