We are the 73rd day of the year and we celebrate Sainte-Mathilde.
Queen of Germania, she was born in Westphalia around 880 and died in Saxony in 968. She was the grandmother of Hugues Capet, the first king of the Capetian dynasty.
She built hospitals, churches and monasteries.
The sun rises two minutes earlier at 7:08 a.m. and sets one minute later at 6:52 p.m.
On the weather side, the weather is deteriorating this Tuesday with a return of rain in a large part of the territory and snow at low altitude.
The mercury drops sharply with a drop of almost ten degrees in some cities.
Some March 14
1593: birth of the painter Georges de La Tour (died January 30, 1652)
1879: birth of physicist Albert Einstein (died April 18, 1955)
1883: death in London of Karl Marx
1978: beginning of the occupation of southern Lebanon by Israel
2009: death of singer Alain Bashung
2014: the former Rwandan officer Pascal Simbikangwa is sentenced by the Paris Assize Court to 25 years' imprisonment for genocide and complicity in crimes against humanity
2018: British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking dies
some birthdays
Michael Caine, British actor and producer born in 1933
Yves Boisset, director born in 1939
Bruno Dumont, director born in 1958
Prince Albert of Monaco, born in 1958
Abd al Malik, rapper, writer and director, born in 1975
Charlotte Gonin, known as Vitaa, singer born in 1983
The saying of the day
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When March is April, April is March.
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