We are the 79th day of the year but also the first day of spring.
Today we celebrate Saint-Herbert.
He led a hermit's life on an island in a lake in Cumberland, England, where he died in 687.
The sun rises two minutes earlier at 6:56 a.m. and sets two minutes later at 7:02 p.m.
On the weather side, the clouds are present in the morning and give way to the sun during the day.
Some March 20
1956: Tunisia, French protectorate since 1881, gains independence
1986: a bomb explodes in the "
Point Show
" shopping mall on the Champs-Élysées, killing two and injuring 29
1986: Jacques Chirac appointed Prime Minister by François Mitterrand under the first cohabitation (1986-1988)
1995: sarin gas attack in the Tokyo metro (13 dead, 6,300 injured)
1996: London admits a possible link between “ mad cow
disease
” (BSE) and a form of human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
2003: start of the offensive by the United States and its allies against Iraq
2009: US President Barack Obama speaks directly to Iranian leaders, offering to overcome 30 years of conflict
2019: international justice condemns on appeal the former political leader of the Bosnian Serbs Radovan Karadzic to life imprisonment for
the "extent and systematic cruelty
" of his crimes during the Bosnian war (1992-95)
some birthday
Marthe Villalonga, actress born in 1932
Spike Lee, American director born in 1957
Anouk Grinberg, actress born in 1963
Xavier Dolan, Canadian actor and director born in 1989
The saying of the day
“
When March disguises itself as summer, April takes on its furry clothes
”
