We are the 95th day of the year and we celebrate Saint Isidore of Seville. Died in this city on April 4, 636, his work was very diverse and his "Book of the Origin of Things", a true encyclopedia, used until the Renaissance.
We are also living on the 18th day of confinement against the coronavirus.
The sun rises two minutes earlier at 7:23 a.m. and sets a minute later at 8:25 p.m. The saying: "The swallow in the fields brings joy and spring".
- Some April 4 -
1791: the Constituent Assembly decrees that the Pantheon will be intended to receive the burial of the Great Men
1914: birth of the writer Marguerite Duras (died March 3, 1996)
1949: creation of NATO
1960: independence of Senegal
1968: assassination in Memphis of the pastor Martin Luther King
1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen found the American group Microsoft
1983: first flight of the Challenger space shuttle (which will explode in flight on January 28, 1986)
2002: end of the civil war in Angola
2008: Somali pirates seize the French cruising sailboat "Le Ponant"
2012: death of film director Claude Miller
2013: adoption of a law protecting whistleblowers in the field of health and environmental risks
2017: suspected chemical attack on rebel town of Khan Cheikhoun in Syria kills more than 80, many of them children
- It's their birthday -
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, politician born in 1945
Frédéric Lopez, television host born in 1967