We are the 292nd day of the year, we celebrate Saint-Luc.
Patron of doctors, painters and artists in general, practiced medicine in Antioch (Syria) his hometown, until his meeting with Saint-Paul.
He wrote “
The Acts of the Apostles
” and the 3rd Gospel.
The sun rises two minutes later at 8:18 a.m. and sets two minutes earlier at 6:53 p.m.
The saying
goes
: "
In Saint-Luc, beetroot becomes sugar
".
- Some October 18 -
1009: destruction of the Holy Sepulcher, the most important Christian sanctuary in Jerusalem
1685: Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes
1931: death of Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph and the electric lamp
1940: birth of singer Jacques Higelin (died April 6, 2018)
1967: the Soviet space probe "
Venus IV
" reaches its objective
1977: collective suicide of Baader gang members in their cells in Stuttgart prison
1981: General Jaruzelski takes the head of the Polish CP
1982: death of Pierre Mendès France, figure of French political life
1989: Erich Honecker, head of state and leader of the Communist Party of the GDR for eighteen years, is dismissed by his party
1996: the phone goes to ten digits
1997: opening of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
2011: Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit released after five years of detention by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza
- It's their birthday -
Guy Roux, ex-coach of Auxerre, born in 1938
Isabelle Autissier, sailor born in 1956
Catherine Ringer, singer born in 1957
Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor born in 1960
François Ruffin, journalist-director and deputy, born in 1975
