We are the 216th day of the year, full moon day, we celebrate Sainte-Lydie. A pagan convert to Judaism, she became a Christian around the year 55 when Saint Paul evangelized Macedonia.
The sun rises two minutes later at 6:29 a.m. and sets two minutes earlier at 9:24 p.m. The saying goes: " Rain early in August, little recovery in all ".
- Some August 3 -
1778: opening of La Scala in Milan
1914: Germany declares war on France. German troops invade Belgium
1954: death of the writer Colette
1958: the first nuclear-powered submarine, the American "Nautilus", links the Pacific to the Atlantic, passing under the ice floes of the North Pole
1960: independence of Niger
1963: creation of secondary education colleges (CES) and technical education colleges (CET)
1992: death of singer and composer Michel Berger
1992: the UN Security Council condemns "ethnic cleansing" in Yugoslavia
2008: death of Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn
2012: Frenchman Teddy Riner becomes Olympic champion in judo in London, category over 100 kg
- It's their birthday -
Jean-Pierre Raffarin, politician born in 1948
Lambert Wilson, actor born in 1958
Mathieu Kassovitz, actor and director born in 1967