Today is the 120th day of the year.
This April 30 marks Remembrance Day in France, which commemorates the genocide of the Jews during the Second World War.
We celebrate Saint Robert de Molesme, founder of the Abbey of Cîteaux.
Born near Troyes (Aube) around 1025, died in Molesme (Côte d'Or) on March 21, 1110, first a Benedictine, then a hermit, he then settled in Cîteaux where his foundation gave birth to the Cistercian order.
On the weather side, after a gloomy Saturday, the weather should remain unstable on Sunday, especially on the Mediterranean coast where thunderstorms are expected.
The sun rises two minutes earlier at 6:34 a.m. and sets two minutes later at 9:03 p.m.
Some April 30
1789: George Washington becomes the first president of the United States
1803: sale of Louisiana to the United States by Bonaparte
1933: Olympique Lille is the first French professional football champion club
1945: Adolf Hitler commits suicide in Berlin in the chancellery bunker, with his wife Eva Braun
1945: the Soviet army liberates the Ravensbrück camp
1975: North Vietnamese communist forces take over Saigon.
End of the Vietnam War
1977: first march in Argentina by the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo to find out the fate of their missing children
1980: Queen Juliana of Holland abdicates in favor of her daughter Beatrix
1991: the last Trabant, the "
national
" car of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), leaves the Sachsenring factory in Zwickau, Saxony
2013: Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicates after 33 years of reign, in favor of her eldest son, Prince Willem-Alexander
2015: death of Patachou, one of the most cheeky voices of post-war French song
2019: Naruhito, eldest son of sovereign Akihito becomes the 126th emperor of Japan, opening a new era called Reiwa (beautiful harmony)
It's their birthday
Jacques Audiard, director born in 1952
Lars Von Trier, Danish director born in 1956
Charles Berling, actor born in 1958
The saying
"
At Saint-Robert, every tree is green
"
