We are the 30th day of the year and we celebrate Sainte-Martine.
A third-century martyr, she was beheaded in Rome for refusing to renounce Christianity.
The sun rises one minute earlier at 8:25 a.m. and sets two minutes later at 5:44 p.m.
The saying goes: "
Beware of Sainte-Martine, because winter is often mutinous
".
- Some January 30 -
1875: adoption of the Walloon amendment, considered the birth certificate of the Third Republic, which stipulates that the President of the Republic "
is appointed for seven years
"
1889 (night of 29 to 30): death in Mayerling (Austria) of Archduke Rudolph of Habsburg and Marie Vetsera
1933: Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany
1943: creation in Vichy of the French Militia headed by Pierre Laval and Secretary General Joseph Darnand
1944: speech by General de Gaulle in Brazzaville laying the foundations of the French Union
1948: assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
1968: (night of 30 to 31) launch of the Tet offensive in Vietnam
1972: “
Bloody Sunday
” in Londonderry (Northern Ireland).
13 protesters killed
1996: a fire destroys the Venice opera "
La Fenice
"
2005: first multiparty election in Iraq.
Shiite list obtains absolute majority in parliament over Kurds
- It's their birthday -
Gene Hackman, American actor born in 1930
Vanessa Redgrave, British actress born in 1937
Phil Collins, English singer born in 1951
Abdallah II, King of Jordan, born in 1962
Olivia Colman, British actress born in 1974