We are the 166th day of the year, and we celebrate Saint-Elisée. Is, with his master Elijah, the most famous prophet of the kingdom of Judah.
The sun rises a minute earlier at 5:48 am and sets a minute later at 9:54 pm. The saying: " Who fishes in June, fishes only fry ".
- Some June 14 -
1894: Sadi Carnot, President of the Republic, is assassinated in Lyon by the anarchist Caserio
1907: birth of the French poet René Char (died February 19, 1988)
1914: birth of the actress Gisèle Casadesus (died September 24, 1917)
1919: first non-stop transatlantic flight by the British John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown (and 15)
1927: death of the British writer Jerome K. Jerome, author of "Three men in a boat"
1928: birth of Che Guevara, theorist and great craftsman of the victorious Cuban revolution (died October 9, 1967)
1940: Paris is occupied by German troops
1982: end of the Falklands War with the surrender of the Argentines after 74 days of conflict
1999: election of Thabo Mbeki to the presidency in South Africa
2013: the new Airbus A350 takes off from Toulouse-Blagnac airport for its first test flight
2017: Grenfell Tower fire in London kills 71
- It's their birthday -
Donald Trump, American president born in 1946
Alexandre Sokourov, Russian director born in 1951
Boy George, British singer born in 1961
Steffi Graf, former German tennis player born in 1969