It is the 145th day of the year and we are celebrating Hagia Sophia. Born in 1779 and died in 1865, she founded at the age of twenty the teaching congregation of the Sacred Heart, modeled on that of the Jesuits.
The sun rises two minutes earlier at 5:59 a.m. and sets one minute later at 21:36 p.m. On the weather side, the sun is expected in the North, thunderstorms in the South.
Some 25 May
1693: death of Madame de La Fayette, author of "The Princess of Cleves"
»1926: birth of trumpeter Miles Davis (died September 28, 1991)
1930: birth of seamstress Sonia Rykiel (died August 25, 2016)
1935: American Jesse Owens breaks three world records in less than an hour (long jump, 220-yard and 220-yard hurdles)
1946: Execution of Dr. Petiot convicted of 24 murders
1946: Jordan becomes independent
1952: Frenchman Alain Bombard leaves Monaco for the solo crossing of the Atlantic
1963: Foundation of the Organization of African Unity (now the African Union)
1977: George Lucas' first "Star Wars" film released in North America
2009: North Korea conducts its second underground nuclear test
2014: death of General Wojciech Jaruzelski, last Polish communist leader
2014: the National Front wins 24.85% of the vote in the European elections, well ahead of the UMP (20.80%) and the PS (13.98%)
2018: Irish overwhelmingly approve abortion liberalisation in historic referendum
2020: The death of George Floyd, a black American man killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis, provokes anger against racism and "police brutality" across the United States and the world
Some birthdays
François Bayrou, politician born in 1951
Robert Combas, artist born in 1957
The saying of the day
«In May, the swarms make the hay carts.»