We are the 256th day of the year and we celebrate Saint-Apollinaire.
Franciscan, born in Spain around 1570, was burned alive in Japan on September 12, 1622 for not having left the country.
The sun rises two minutes later at 7:25 a.m. and sets two minutes earlier at 8:08 p.m.
The saying
goes
: "
What August won't ripen, September won't
".
- Some September 12 -
1494: birth of King François I in Cognac (died March 31, 1547)
1888: birth of singer Maurice Chevalier (died January 1, 1972)
1897: publication of “
Nourritures terrestres
” by André Gide
1910: first performance in Munich of Gustav Mahler's Eighth Symphony
1940: discovery of the prehistoric caves of Lascaux
1943: prisoner in Abruzzo, Mussolini is freed by an SS commando
1974: Emperor Haile Selassie is overthrown by a junta of Ethiopian revolutionary officers
1986: bomb explosion in a cafeteria in the Defense district in Puteaux.
41 injured
1992: death of American actor Anthony Perkins
2005: Israeli army leaves Gaza Strip after 38 years of occupation
2010: death of filmmaker Claude Chabrol
2013: death of Ray Dolby, inventor of the background noise reduction system that bears his name and of the so-called "
surround
"
sound
with which all movie theaters are equipped
2015: election of Jeremy Corbyn as head of the British Labor Party
2018: the European Parliament votes in favor of the copyright reform supposed to financially contribute to the internet giants for the artistic content and the articles they use
- It's their birthday -
Mylène Farmer, singer born in 1961
Alfie Allen, British actor born in 1986