We are the 226th day of the year, we celebrate Saint-Hippolyte. Anti-pope from 217 to 235. During the persecution of the emperor Maximin, he was sent with the Pope Pontian to the mines of Sardinia where he died with him of misery. A few years later, Pope Fabien had their bodies brought back to Rome to be buried with the honors reserved for martyrs.
The sun rises two minutes later at 6:43 a.m. and sets two minutes earlier at 9:07 p.m. The saying goes : " August broods, September gives birth ".
- Some August 13 -
1826: death of René Laennec, inventor of the stethoscope
1889: William Gray files a patent for a public telephone that works with coins
1898: birth of tennis player Jean Borotra (died July 17, 1994)
1899: birth of Alfred Hitchcock (died April 29, 1980)
1914: birth of Luis Mariano (died July 13, 1970)
1926: birth of Fidel Castro (died November 25, 2016)
1961: construction by the GDR of the Berlin Wall
1996: arrest in Belgium of Marc Dutroux, accused of kidnapping and murder of children and adolescents
- It's their birthday -
Philippe Petit, tightrope walker who became famous for having made the crossing on a wire, illegal, between the tops of the two towers of the World Trade Center on August 7, 1974, born in 1949
Manuel Valls, politician born in 1962