We are the 206th day of the year, we celebrate Sainte-Christine. Christine the Admirable, who died in 1244 in Belgium, was a Flemish mystic at the monastery of Saint Catherine in Saint-Trond.
The sun rises one minute later at 6:16 a.m. and sets one minute earlier at 9:38 p.m. The saying goes: “Saint Christine's Day always looks good”.
- Some July 24 -
1802: birth of Alexandre Dumas (died December 5, 1870)
1911: discovery in Peru of the citadel of Machu Picchu, during the expedition led by the American architect Hiran Bingham
1957: death of the playwright, filmmaker and actor Sacha Guitry
1967: on an official visit to Montreal, General de Gaulle launches "Vive le Québec libre"
1980: death of British actor Peter Sellers
2005: the American Lance Armstrong wins the Tour de France cycling race for the seventh time. On January 14, 2013, after more than a decade of denials, Armstrong admitted he had doped
2007: in Libya, release from prison of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor with the active participation of France
2008: promulgation of the constitutional revision which increases the powers of Parliament
2010: tragic Loveparade in Duisburg in Germany where 21 festival-goers die in a panic in a tunnel to access the site
2013: the derailment of a train in Santiago de Compostela, in northern Spain, kills 80
2014: an Air Algérie plane (flight AH 5017) crashes in northern Mali. No survivors among the 116 people on board including 54 French
2019: US federal authorities impose record fine of $ 5 billion on Facebook for 'misleading' social network users about their ability to control the privacy of their personal information
- It's their birthday -
Gus Van Sant, American director born in 1952
Olivier Py, playwright and director of the Avignon festival born in 1965
Jennifer Lopez, American actress and singer born in 1969