It is the 150th day of the year, and we are celebrating St. Ferdinand's Day. He was born near Salamanca around 1199, died in Seville on May 30, 1252, King of Castile, he was one of the architects of the withdrawal of the Arab invaders and made the Castilian dialect the language of the Spaniards. On the weather side, the South is experiencing a strong return of showers, and the freshness returns to the North. The sun rises one minute earlier at 05:55 and sets one minute later at 21:42
Some 30 May
1960: death of Boris Pasternak, author of "Doctor Zhivago"
»1967: Declaration of independence of Biafra which leads a year later to a bloody civil war causing more than a million deaths in this secessionist republic reintegrated into Nigeria in 1970
1972: Attack at Lod airport (Israel). 26 dead, more than 80 injured
1975: death of actor Michel Simon
1992: The UN passes an embargo against Yugoslavia (FRY)
2007: death of actor and director Jean-Claude Brialy
2014: President François Hollande inaugurates the Soulages Museum in Rodez
2020: SpaceX becomes the first private company to launch astronauts into space, a historic success that offers the United States a new means of space transportation, after nine years of interruption
Some birthdays
Bertrand Delanoë, politician born in 1950
Élise Lucet, journalist born in 1963
The saying of the day
«Time of Saint Ferdinand, heat and laughing sun»
