Today is the 97th day of the year and Good Friday, the Christian commemoration of the crucifixion of Christ.
We celebrate Saint-Jean-Baptiste de La Salle.
Born in Reims in 1651 and died in Rouen in April 1719, he founded the Brothers of the Christian Schools.
This day of April 7 is also dedicated to the commemoration of the genocide of the Tutsis.
The sun rises two minutes earlier at 7:18 a.m. and sets two minutes later at 8:29 p.m.
In terms of weather, the sky is clearing in the West but remains well covered on the eastern side of France.
The saying of the day
“
April flower hangs by a thread.
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Some April 7
1795: adoption in France of the metric system
1919: foundation of the French Football Federation (FFF)
1920: birth in Benares of Indian composer and sitarist Ravi Shankar (died December 11, 2012)
1927: presentation on triple screen of the film "
Napoleon
" by French director Abel Gance
1930: creation of forced labor camps in the USSR known as the
"gulag"
1994: start of the genocide in Rwanda which, according to the UN, killed around 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus, killed by Hutu extremists
2009: Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes against humanity
2013: the Alsatians reject by referendum an unprecedented merger project of the departmental and regional authorities of Alsace
2017: a ram truck attack kills five in Stockholm
2021: the Bulletin of the French prehistoric society reveals that the engraved slab of Saint-Bélec, dating from the Bronze Age and unearthed in 1900 in Finistère, is the oldest cartographic representation of a territory in Europe
some birthdays
Francis Ford Coppola, American director born in 1939
Gerhard Schröder, former Chancellor of Germany, born in 1944
Jean-Louis Borloo, politician born in 1951
Jackie Chan, Hong Kong actor and action movie star, born in 1954
Russell Crowe, New Zealand actor born in 1964
Franck Ribéry, footballer born in 1983
Teddy Riner, judoka born in 1989
