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The ephemeris of Sunday August 9, 2020

2020-08-09T06:25:21.839Z


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 189...


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

Source: lefigaro

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