We are the 17th day of the year, we celebrate Sainte-Roseline.
Sainte-Roseline entered the Carthusian order at the age of 25 and became 12 years later, until her death, prioress of the charterhouse of Celle-Roubaud (Var).
The sun rises like the day before at 8:39 a.m. and sets one minute later at 5:23 p.m.
The saying goes: “
January gathers stumps, February burns them all
”.
- Some January 17 -
1861: death of the dancer Lola Montes whose affair with Louis I of Bavaria caused the king to lose his crown
1933: birth of the singer Dalida (died May 3, 1987)
1942: birth of American boxer Cassius Clay (Mohamed Ali), died June 3, 2016
1957: death of actor Humphrey Bogart
1961: assassination of Patrice Lumumba, former prime minister of the former Belgian Congo
1975: promulgation of the Veil law on the voluntary termination of pregnancy
1991: launch of the Allied air offensive against Iraq
1995: earthquake in Kobe (Japan).
More than 6,000 dead
2013: cyclist Lance Armstrong admits to television host Oprah Winfrey that he won his seven Tours de France by doping
2018: the government announces the abandonment of the airport project at Notre-Dame-des-Landes in favor of a redevelopment of Nantes airport
- It's their birthday -
Françoise Hardy, singer born in 1944
Claude Guéant, politician born in 1945
Sylvie Testud, actress born in 1971