We are the 169th day of the year, we celebrate Saint Hervé. Almost as popular as Saint-Yves in Brittany, he lived as a hermit in the 6th century. He probably founded the Lanhouarneau monastery (Finistère).
The sun rises like the previous day at 5:48 am and sets like the previous day at 9:55 pm. The saying: "Sun at Saint-Hervé portends a beautiful summer".
Some June 17
1789: the deputies of the third estate to the Estates General, and some of the clergy, constitute themselves in the National Assembly
1882: birth of the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky (died April 6, 1971)
1917: birth of the American singer and actor Dean Martin (died December 25, 1995)
1939: the execution of Eugène Wiedmann, convicted of the murder of six people, is the last public execution in France
1953: workers' uprising in East Berlin
1958: launch of a State loan by Antoine Pinay, Minister of Finance
1972: start of the Watergate affair in the United States
1997: launch of Radio France Le Mouv '“rock” station
2015: Young white supremacist kills nine people in black community church in Charleston, South Carolina
2017: fire in the Leiria region in central Portugal leaves 64 dead
It's their birthday
Ken Loach, British filmmaker born in 1936
Eddy Merckx, Belgian cyclist born in 1945
Michel Pastoureau, historian born in 1947
Marc Jolivet, humorist born in 1950
Cali, singer born in 1968
Aurélie Filippetti, politician born in 1973
