We are the 23rd day of the year, we celebrate Saint-Barnard.
Born in Lyon in 777, served the armies of Charlemagne, founded an abbey in Romans (Isère) where he ended his days in prayer in 842.
The sun rises one minute earlier at 8:33 a.m. and sets two minutes later at 5:33 p.m.
The saying goes: "Mid-January, half straw".
- Some January 23 -
1783: birth of the romantic writer Stendhal (died March 23, 1842)
1832: birth of the painter Edouard Manet (died April 30, 1883)
1910: birth of Django Reinhardt, king of gypsy jazz (died May 16, 1953)
1953: premiere at the Babylon theater of “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Becket
1978: kidnapping of Belgian baron Jean Empain, CEO of Schneider
1989: death of the Catalan painter Salvador Dali
2002: death of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu
2004: the European Mars Express probe detects water in the form of ice at the south pole of the planet Mars
2005: in Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, brought to power by the Orange Revolution, is invested president
2012: twenty mummified Maori heads acquired in the 19th century by Western explorers and sailors and kept in French museums are officially returned to New Zealand
2015: death of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, succeeded by his half-brother Salman
- It's their birthday -
Caroline of Monaco, born in 1957
Christophe Dechavanne, animator born in 1958
Léa Drucker, actress born in 1972
