We are the 31st day of the year, we live a last Sunday and celebrate Sainte-Marcelle.
Born and died in Rome (325-410), the first great Roman lady to openly profess devotion, she was beaten to death by the soldiers of Alaric, king of the Visigoths.
The sun rises two minutes earlier at 8:23 a.m. and sets one minute later at 5:45 p.m.
The saying goes: "
Dry and beautiful January fills vats and barrels
".
- Some January 31 -
1797: birth of the composer Franz Schubert (died November 19, 1828)
1929: publication in Germany of Erich Maria's novel Remark "
Nothing new in the West
"
1943: von Paulus' 6th German Army capitulates in Stalingrad
1944: death of the writer Jean Giraudoux
1958: launch of Explorer I, the first American satellite
1977: inauguration of the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris, open to the public on February 2
1987: death of filmmaker Yves Allégret
2010: France, by winning the European Handball Championship in Vienna, becomes the first nation to win the three major titles in a row after the Olympic Games in 2008 and the World Cup in 2009
2020: the United Kingdom becomes the first country to leave the European Union
2020: death of the American writer Mary Higgins Clark
- It's their birthday -
Brahim Asloum, boxer born in 1979
Justin Timberlake, American actor born in 1981
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