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The ephemeris of Thursday August 6, 2020

2020-08-06T04:07:19.697Z


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 b...


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

Source: lefigaro

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