We are the 41st day of the year and we are celebrating the Arnauds.
Saint Arnaud was abbot of the Sainte-Justine monastery in Padua (Italy), he died on February 10, 1255 after 8 years in prison.
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The sun rises two minutes earlier, at 8:09 a.m., and will set two minutes later, at 6:01 p.m.
February 10
1763: signing of the Treaty of Paris which caused France to lose its colonies in Canada and India
1837: Russian writer Alexander Pushkin is killed in a duel
1898: birth of playwright Bertolt Brecht (died August 14, 1956)
1942: American musician Glenn Miller receives the first gold record
1970: avalanche in Val-d'Isère.
39 dead
2005: North Korea declares itself a nuclear power
2013: 47 years after Marielle Goitschel, the Frenchwoman Marion Rolland becomes downhill world champion, in Schladming in Austria
2014: Death of Shirley Temple, Hollywood's first Oscar-winning child star at age six, who had quit acting at age 21
some birthdays
Brice Lalonde, former environmental minister born in 1946
Maxime Le Forestier, singer born in 1949
The saying of the day
The saying: “If you prune in February, you put your grapes in your basket”
