We are the 341st day of the year, we celebrate Saint-Nicolas.
Patron of schoolchildren and coopers, bishop of Myra (Turkey) in the 4th century, he is the most popular of the Orthodox saints.
In many European countries, such as in northern France, children receive gifts or sweets on St. Nicholas' Day.
The sun rises one minute later at 8:31 a.m. and sets like the day before at 4:53 p.m.
The saying goes: "winter is often low on Saint-Nicolas".
- Some December 6 -
1917: Finland becomes independent
1917: The French munitions boat Mont-Blanc collides with the Belgian ship Imo in Halifax, Canada, killing nearly 2,000 people
1921: Treaty of London.
Ireland is shared between Ulster (the six northern counties) which remains an integral part of the United Kingdom and the Irish Free State which becomes a dominion of the Commonwealth
1986: death of student Malik Oussekine, victim of a police blunder, on the sidelines of student demonstrations in Paris
1994: death of Italian actor Gian Maria Volonte
2001: assassination in Brazil of New Zealand navigator Peter Blake
2005: in Great Britain, David Cameron is elected leader of the Conservative Party
2006: launch of the French international news channel "France 24"
2017: US President Donald Trump recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital
- It's their birthday -
Claude Chirac, daughter of the former president, born in 1962
Sylvie Goulard, politician born in 1964
François de Rugy, politician born in 1973