We are the 43rd day of the year, we celebrate Saint Felix. He appeared in a list of Christians at the beginning of the 4th century, arrested while attending a mass in a private house in Abitene (Tunisia)
The sun rises two minutes earlier at 8:06 a.m. and sets two minutes later at 6:04 p.m. The saying: "If February does not have gusts, every month will be escapades"
Some February 12
1450: death at 38 of Agnès Sorel, "the Lady of beauty", favorite of Charles VII
1804: death of the German philosopher Emmanuel Kant
1903: birth of the writer Georges Simenon, "father" of Commissioner Maigret (died September 6, 1989)
1912: Pu Yi, the last emperor of China abdicates at the age of 6
1941: for the first time, a man is treated with penicillin
1979: death of filmmaker Jean Renoir
1986: signing of the Channel Tunnel agreement
2002: start of the trial of Slobodan Milosevic before the International Criminal Tribunal (ICTY) in The Hague
2015: signing of the Minsk 2 agreements between pro-Russian rebels and Kiev, providing for a cease-fire and the resumption by Ukraine of control of its border with Russia
2016: meeting in Cuba of Pope Francis and the Russian Orthodox patriarch Kirill, more than a millennium after the break between Christians of East and West
2019: agreement between Skopje and Athens on the new name of Macedonia which is now called North Macedonia
It's their birthday
Costa-Gavras, filmmaker born in 1933
Josh Brolin, American actor born in 1968