We are the 44th day of the year, we celebrate Sainte Béatrice. She was born in the village of Ornacieu (Isère) around 1260, founded the Charterhouse of Eymeu (Drôme) and died there on November 25, 1303.
The sun rises one minute earlier at 8:05 a.m. and sets two minutes later at 6:06 p.m. The saying: "No February without almond blossom".
Some February 13
1883: death of composer Richard Wagner
1895: the Lumière brothers file a patent for the invention of the cinematograph
1945: Dresden practically destroyed by an Allied bombing (night of 13-14)
1960: explosion of the first French A-bomb "blue Gerboise" at Reggane in the Sahara
1974: the writer Alexandre Soljenitsyne is expelled from the USSR
2008: death of singer Henri Salvador
2017: death of Japanese cult director Seijun Suzuki
It's their birthday
Beate Klarsfeld, hunter of Nazi criminals with her husband Serge, born in 1939
Peter Gabriel, British rock singer, born in 1950
Robbie Williams, British singer, born in 1974
Vianney, singer born in 1991