We are the 223rd day of the year and we celebrate Saint-Laurent. He died in Rome in 258, victim of martyrdom on a grill.
The sun rises one minute later at 6:38 a.m. and sets one minute earlier at 9:13 p.m. The saying goes : “ The weather on the Saint-Laurent lasts a long time ”.
- Some August 10 -
1888: birth of the painter Giorgio De Chirico (died November 19, 1978)
1913: Treaty of Bucharest which puts an end to the war in the Balkans
1966: launch of the first American satellite around the moon
1981: promulgation of the Lang law which fixes a single book price in France
2007: disappearance of Joe O'Donnell, American photographer known for his photos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
2007: promulgation of the law " relating to the freedoms and responsibilities of universities ", which provides for the generalization of autonomy to all universities within five years
2011: black session on the Paris Stock Exchange which sees the banking sector tumbling against the backdrop of rumors of bankruptcy of Société Générale
2018: California Justice Orders Monsanto Company To Pay Millions Of Dollars In Damages To American Gardener Dewayne Johnson With Cancer He Attributes To Roundup
- It's their birthday -
Daniel Cordier, resistant and secretary of Jean Moulin during the German occupation, born in 1920
Jean Graton, designer and creator of the Michel Vaillant comic strip in Tintin's journal in 1957, born in 1923
Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor born in 1960