It is the 139th day of the year and we are celebrating Saint-Yves. Patron saint of lawyers, Yves was a Franciscan priest born in 1253 and died in Kermartin (Côtes-d'Armor) on May 19, 1303.
The sun rises one minute earlier at 06:06 and sets one minute later at 21:29. It's a new moon day. On the weather side, rain is expected in the Southeast, sun and clouds in the rest of the France.
Some 19 May
1802: The First Consul, Bonaparte, creates the Order of the Legion of Honour
1921: birth of actor Daniel Gélin (died November 29, 2002)
1935: Death of Colonel Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia, agent of the Intelligence Service and author of the book "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
»1974: election of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing as President of the Republic
1976: Launch of the National Lotto in France
1988: opening to traffic of the bridge linking the island of Ré to the mainland
2016: crash of an EgyptAir Air, flying from Paris to Cairo, with 66 people on board, including forty Egyptians and fifteen French
2017: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is re-elected for four years
2018: Prince Harry marries former American actress Meghan Markle
Some birthdays
Grace Jones (born 1948), American singer and former model
Ariel Wizman, host and comedian born in 1962
Kyle Eastwood (born 1968), American bassist
Thomas Vinterberg (born 1969), Danish film director
The saying of the day
«May weddings never go.»
