We are the 60th day of the year and we celebrate Saint-Aubin.
Born in Morbihan in 469, he became bishop of Angers in 529 and died there on March 1, 550 after having obtained that the Church of Gaul condemn incestuous marriages, frequent among the Merovingian lords.
The sun rises two minutes earlier at 7:35 a.m. and sets one minute later at 6:32 p.m.
In terms of weather, the cold and the sun persist in France.
Some March 1
1815: start of the Hundred Days with the landing of Napoleon I in Golfe-Juan
1904: birth of jazz musician Glenn Miller (died December 15, 1944)
1941: General Leclerc takes Koufra in Libya
1974: creation of the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN)
1987: creation of the M6 channel
2001: in Afghanistan, the start of the blasting of the statues of Bamiyan
2008: the number two of the Farc guerrillas, Raul Reyes, is killed by the Colombian army
2010: the French Post Office changes status and becomes a public limited company
2014: death of director Alain Resnais
some birthdays
Harry Belafonte, African-American singer and comedian born in 1927
Delphine de Vigan, writer born in 1966
Javier Bardem, Spanish actor, born in 1969
The saying of the day
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Prune on the day of Saint-Aubin to have large grapes.
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