We are the 113th day of the year, and we are celebrating Georges.
Saint-Georges lived at the end of the 3rd century.
It is said of him that he slew the “
dragon
”
.
In terms of weather, there could be thunderstorms over a large part of the country.
The sun rose two minutes earlier at 6:47 a.m. and will set one minute later at 8:52 p.m.
April 23
1564: birth of William Shakespeare
1919: a law sets working hours at 8 hours a day and 48 hours a week in France
1967: Soyuz I crashes to the ground on its return.
Vladimir Komarov is the first cosmonaut to die returning from space
1986: death of American filmmaker Otto Preminger
2004: the last block of French coal is symbolically brought up from the Houve well in Creutzwald (Moselle), definitively sealing three centuries of coal history
2007: death of Boris Yeltsin, first president of post-Soviet Russia
2013: the French Parliament votes to legalize same-sex marriage
2021: SpaceX sends four astronauts, including Frenchman Thomas Pesquet, to the International Space Station, the private group's third such mission since the United States resumed manned spaceflight
some birthdays
Pascal Quignard, Goncourt Prize in 2002 for "The Wandering Shadows", born in 1948
Michael Moore, American filmmaker born in 1954
Prince Louis of Cambridge, fourth in line to the British throne, born in 2018
The saying of the day
“When it rains on Saint-Georges, out of a hundred cherries, we have fourteen”
