We are the 219th day of the year, it is the Transfiguration. Change of bodily appearance of Jesus during a few moments of his earthly life, to reveal his divine nature to three of his disciples.
The sun rises two minutes later at 6:33 a.m. and sets two minutes earlier at 9:19 p.m. The saying goes: “August without rain makes the cow lose weight”.
- Some August 6 -
1890: first capital execution by the electric chair in the United States
1932: opening of the first “Mostra” in Venice
1945: an American atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima
1978: death of Pope Paul VI
1989: death of Hubert Beuve-Mery, founder of the daily Le Monde
1991: assassination of Chapour Bakhtiar, last Prime Minister of the Shah of Iran
2004: promulgation in France of the law on bioethics aimed at governing new practices (cloning, organ donation, embryo research, etc.)
2011: start of violent riots that engulf several cities in Great Britain
2011: the “AAA” rating of the United States is downgraded by one notch to “AA +” by the rating agency Standard and Poor's
2012: the Curiosity robot lands on Mars, successfully opening a new era of exploration of the red planet
2014: after a 10-year journey, the European probe Rosetta joins comet Tchourioumov-Guérassimenko
2018: death of Joël Robuchon, the most starred chef in the world and crowned “cook of the century” by the Gault et Millau guide in 1990
- It's their birthday -
Elisabeth Guigou, politician born in 1946
Marc Lavoine, singer and actor born in 1962
Luc Alphand, skier born in 1965