We are the 75th day of the year and we celebrate Saint Benedict.
She succeeded Saint Clare as Abbess of Saint-Damien of Assisi (1253-1260).
We are in mid-Lent, a celebration that is perpetuated in some regions by the organization of carnivals.
The sun rises two minutes earlier at 7:04 a.m. and sets one minute later at 6:55 p.m.
As for the weather, it's the return of heat and sunshine in France.
Some March 16
1914: Gaston Calmette, director of Le
Figaro
, is assassinated by Henriette Caillaux, wife of Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux
1926: birth of Jerry Lewis, American comedian (died August 20, 2017)
1978: oil spill on the coast of Brittany after the sinking of the Amoco Cadiz
1978: kidnapping in Italy of Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades (found murdered on May 9, 1978)
1986: victory of the right in France in the legislative elections.
Beginning of the first cohabitation
1988: the bombardment with chemical weapons of the Iraqi Kurdish city of Halabja kills thousands of people including a large number of women and children
2002: assassination in Cali, Colombia of Archbishop Isarias Duarte
2013: inauguration in Bordeaux of a lifting bridge over the Garonne, linking the two banks of the city and called the Jacques Chaban-Delmas bridge
2014: the Russian-speaking autonomous region of Crimea (southern Ukraine) decides by referendum for its attachment to Russia
some birthdays
Isabelle Huppert, actress born in 1953
Cristiana Reali, actress born in 1965
The saying of the day
“From March the greenery, a bad omen.”