We are the 225th day of the year, we celebrate Sainte-Clarisse. Founded at the end of the 7th century, near Remiremont (Vosges), the monastery of Saint-Mont.
The sun rises one minute later at 6:41 a.m. and sets two minutes earlier at 9:09 p.m. The saying goes: " August gives you good taste ".
- Some August 12 -
1800: start of preparatory work for the Civil Code
1964: death of Ian Fleming, British author, father of James Bond
1955: death of the writer Thomas Mann
1970: birth of Paris-Saint-Germain Football Club (PSG)
1977: first flight in the atmosphere of an American space shuttle
1982: death of American actor Henry Fonda
2000: Russian nuclear submarine Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea with 118 crew members
2014: death of American actress and legend of the golden age of Hollywood Lauren Bacall
2014: Iranian-American Maryam Mirzakhani becomes the first female winner of the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics
2015: Several giant explosions, parts of a chemical warehouse, devastate the Tianjin region of China, killing at least 165 people
2016: judoka Teddy Riner retains his gold medal in the +100 kg at the Olympic Games in Rio by beating the Japanese Hisayoshi Harasawa in the final
2018: The US Space Agency launches the Parker probe, the fastest human-made craft that must pass through the sun's atmosphere to help unlock the secret of solar storms
- It's their birthday -
Bernard Accoyer, politician, born in 1945
Jean Nouvel, architect born in 1945
François Hollande, former President of the Republic, born in 1954
Pete Sampras, American tennis player born in 1971
Casey Affleck, American actor born in 1975
