We are the 45th day of the year and celebrate Valentine's Day.
Saint Valentine, now patron saint of lovers, was a bishop who died as a martyr in the 3rd century.
The sun rose one minute earlier at 8:03 a.m. and will set two minutes later at 6:08 p.m.
As for the weather, the sun seems to be imposing itself over the whole of France.
February 14
1879: the Chamber of Deputies adopts La Marseillaise which becomes the national anthem of the restored Republic
1933: inauguration of the world's first speaking clock at the Paris Observatory
1956: opening of the XX Congress of the Communist Party of the USSR (de-Stalinization).
Khrushchev report on February 24
1989: the writer Salman Rushdie is the target of a fatwa, issued by Ayatollah Khomeini, condemning him to death
2003: famous speech by Dominique de Villepin before the UN Security Council, against the use of force in Iraq
2004: death by cocaine overdose of Marco Pantani, a great figure in Italian cycling
2005: Assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri
2015: A double shooting against a Jewish cultural center and a synagogue in Copenhagen leaves two dead
some birthdays
Michael Bloomberg, American businessman and former mayor of New York born in 1942
Roland Giraud, actor born in 1942
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Martin Crimp, British playwright born in 1956
Renée Fleming, American soprano born in 1959
The saying of the day
"Clear skies on Valentine's Day, announcing plenitude of goods"
