We are the 59th day of the year and we celebrate Saint-Romain.
Died in 463, he built two monasteries, Condat and Lauconne, which gave birth to the towns of Saint-Claude and Saint-Lupicin in the Jura.
The sun rises two minutes earlier at 7:37 a.m. and sets two minutes later at 6:31 p.m.
On the weather side, the sun dominates the whole country, except in Corsica which is placed on orange rain alert.
February 28
1895: birth of writer and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol (died April 18, 1974)
1922: end of the British protectorate over Egypt
1974: inauguration of the Palais des Congrès in Paris
1986: Assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme
1987: the Special Assize Court of Paris sentences Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, presumed leader of the Lebanese Revolutionary Armed Fractions (FARL), to life imprisonment
1991: Gulf War.
End of fighting after the Allied ground offensive against Iraq
1991: the Ministry of Agriculture announces the first appearance in France of a case of bovine spongiform encephalitis (BSE)
2002: the euro really becomes the single currency for 304 million Europeans in 12 countries, after the disappearance of the last national currencies
2010: Xynthia, the storm of hearts killed 47 people on the French coast, including 29 in the Vendée seaside resort of La Faute-sur-Mer alone (night of 27 to 28)
2011: death of actress Annie Girardot
2011: death of American actress Jane Russell, sex symbol of the 1950s
2016: Leonardo DiCaprio wins his first Oscar thanks to his performance in “
The Revenant
” by Mexican Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu
some birthdays
Frank Gehry, American-Canadian architect born in 1929
Raphaële Billetdoux, novelist born in 1951
Jeanne Mas, singer born in 1958
Ali Baddou, animator born in 1974
Jeanne Cherhal, singer born in 1978
The saying of the day
“
Beautiful sky at Saint-Romain, there will be food and good wine.
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