We are the 37th day of the year and we celebrate the Gastons.
Saint Gaston was bishop of Arras for 40 years, he died there on February 6, 540. He had prepared King Clovis for baptism.
It is also the world day without mobile phones, fixed on this day in reference to the song by Nino Ferrer "
Gaston answer, there's the phone that sounds and there's never anyone who answers
"!
The sun rises two minutes earlier at 8:15 a.m. and sets one minute later at 5:54 p.m.
On the weather side, a general cooling is announced and the return of morning frosts.
February 6
1793: death of Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni
1918: right to vote in Great Britain for women over 30
1927: Yehudi Menuhin, a 10-year-old prodigy violinist, performs at a concert in Paris in front of 1,500 people
1932: birth of filmmaker François Truffaut (died October 21, 1984)
1934: demonstration of the right-wing leagues at Place de la Concorde in Paris against the Daladier government.
Fifteen killed
1945: birth of Jamaican reggae singer Bob Marley (died May 11, 1981)
1952: King George VI of England dies.
Elizabeth II ascends the throne
1967: death of French actress Martine Carol
1973: fire at the CES Pailleron.
20 dead
1998: assassination in Corsica of the prefect Claude Erignac
2018: The world's most powerful rocket, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy embarks on its first historic mission, launching a cherry-red sports car to Mars with a mannequin named after a David Bowie song as its driver.
some birthdays
Christine Boutin, politician born in 1944
Jim Sheridan, Irish director born in 1949
Roger-Pol Droit, philosopher born in 1949
Florence Aubenas, journalist born in 1961
Andreï Zviaguintsev, Russian filmmaker born in 1964
The saying of the day
“
At Saint-Gaston, watch your buds
”
