We are the 243rd day of the year and we celebrate Saint-Fiacre. Patron of gardeners, was born in Ireland and died around 670 in Saint-Fiacre en Brie.
The sun rises one minute later at 7:06 am and sets two minutes earlier at 8:35 pm. The saying goes: " At Saint-Fiacre, blazing sun, for eight more days, fine weather ".
- Some August 30 -
1918: birth of the painter Leonor Fini (died January 18, 1996)
1954: the French National Assembly refuses to ratify the treaty establishing the European Defense Community (CED)
1963: installation of a " red telephone " between the White House and the Kremlin
1982: evacuation from Beirut of more than 11,000 Palestinian fighters
1991: the Christian Lebanese general Michel Aoun arrives in exile in France
2010: death of filmmaker, producer and screenwriter Alain Corneau
2013: death of Irish poet Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995
- It's their birthday -
Alain Rey, linguist born in 1928
Warren Buffet, American billionaire born in 1930
Geneviève de Fontenay, former president of the Miss France committee, born in 1932
Jean-Claude Killy, skier born in 1943
Jacques Tardi, comic book author born in 1946
Yves Calvi, journalist born in 1959
Cameron Diaz, American actress born in 1972
Camilla Lackberg, Swedish detective novelist, born 1974
