We are the 16th day of the year, we celebrate Saint-Marcel.
Pope from 308 to 309, was sent into exile by the emperor Maxentius for having decreed too severe penalties for Roman Christians who had renounced their faith and who, having revolted, had caused major unrest in Rome.
The sun rises one minute earlier at 8:39 a.m. and sets two minutes later at 5:22 p.m.
The saying goes: "
Prepare your new seeds for Saint-Marcel
".
- Some January 16 -
1920: alcohol is prohibited in the United States
1947: Vincent Auriol becomes the first president of the Fourth Republic
1969: Jan Palach sets himself on fire in Prague
1969: successful docking for the first time between two Soviet manned spacecraft, Soyuz IV and Soyuz V
1979: departure in exile of the Shah of Iran
1982: the Holy See and Great Britain restore the fullness of their diplomatic relations, restricted for 450 years
1986: death of Jean Cassou, man of letters, founder of the National Museum of Modern Art
1994: secular demonstration against the revision of the Falloux law of 1950. 600,000 people marched in Paris
2013: start of a bloody hostage-taking perpetrated by an Islamist commando on the gas site of In Amenas, in Algeria
- It's their birthday -
Richard Bohringer, actor born in 1941
Kate Moss, British model born in 1974