Today is the 94th day of the year and Holy Tuesday (second day of Holy Week).
We celebrate Saint Isidore this Tuesday.
Isidore of Seville died in this Spanish city on April 4, 636, his work was very diverse and his "
Book of the Origin of Things
", a veritable encyclopedia, was used until the Renaissance.
The sun rises two minutes earlier at 7:24 a.m. and sets one minute later at 8:24 p.m.
On the weather side, France is facing an almost general episode of frost.
Some April 4
1791: the Constituent Assembly decrees that the Pantheon will be destined to receive the burial of "great men"
1914: birth of the writer Marguerite Duras (died March 3, 1996)
1949: creation of NATO
1960: independence of Senegal
1968: Assassination in Memphis of Pastor Martin Luther King
1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen found the American group Microsoft
1983: first flight of the space shuttle Challenger (which will explode in flight on January 28, 1986)
2002: end of the civil war in Angola
2008: Somali pirates seize the French cruise ship “
Le Ponant
”
2009: world first at the Henri-Mondor hospital in Créteil (Val-de-Marne), a face transplant accompanied by a transplant of both hands is performed on a 30-year-old man
2012: death of film director Claude Miller
2017: A suspected chemical attack on the rebel town of Khan Sheikhoun in Syria kills more than 80 people, many of them children
some birthdays
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, politician born in 1945
India Mahdavi, architect and designer born in 1962
Frédéric Lopez, television host born in 1967
The saying of the day
“
The swallow in the fields brings joy and spring.
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