We are the 70th day of the year, it is the national day of tribute to the victims of terrorism.
We celebrate Sainte-Rosine.
She is ignored by hagiographers but we only know that she has been honored for a long time in the church of Wenglingen in Germany.
On the weather side, we are still expecting very high winds in the South, in the continuity of storm Larisa.
The mercury will drop in the North on Saturday, before rising again on Sunday.
Some March 11
1794: creation of the Ecole Polytechnique
1911: France aligns itself with the Greenwich meridian time and abandons the Paris meridian
1978: death of singer Claude François
2004: in Spain, a dozen bombs explode on board four trains, in Madrid and its suburbs, killing 191 people and injuring more than 1,900
2006: death of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
2009: France announces its return to NATO's integrated command, 43 years after de Gaulle left with a bang
2011: A giant earthquake and tsunami ravage the Fukushima region on the northeast coast of Japan, leaving some 18,500 dead and missing and triggering a nuclear disaster
2020: the World Health Organization (WHO) describes the Covid-19 epidemic as a “
pandemic
”
2021: "
Everydays: the First 5000 Days
", an all-digital work by American artist Beeple is sold for $69.3 million by auction house Christie's
some birthdays
Rupert Murdoch, Australian media magnate born in 1931
Laure Adler, journalist born in 1950
Nina Hagen, German punk singer born in 1955
The saying of the day
"
In March, wind or rain, let everyone watch over him
"
