It is the 156th day of the year and we are celebrating St. Igor's Day. He was king of Muscovy, dethroned in 1146 after six weeks of reign and, having become religious, he was assassinated in the church of his monastery a year later by his political opponents. On the weather side, temperatures of up to 30°C are expected in the center of the country. The sun rises one minute earlier at 05:51 and sets as the day before at 21:47.
Some 5 June
1921: death of the writer Georges Feydeau
1947: General Marshall proposes the European reconstruction plan that bears his name
1967: Beginning of the Six Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors
1968: Bombing in Los Angeles of Senator Robert Kennedy, who dies the next day from his wounds
1981: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports its observations on a rare disease that will later be named AIDS
1991: State of siege in Algeria after Islamist demonstrations
2000: for the first time in France, a team from La Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital succeeds in implanting a completely autonomous artificial heart
2004: Noël Mamère celebrates in Bègles the first homosexual marriage of France, which will be annulled by the courts
2013: The Guardian reveals the leaks of former US National Security Agency (NSA) consultant Edward Snowden on the existence of US communications surveillance programs
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It's their birthday
Laurie Anderson, American artist born in 1947
Régis Jauffret, writer born in 1955
Mark Wahlberg (born 1971), American actor
Iris Van Herpen, Dutch fashion designer born in 1984
The saying of the day
«A meadow is very vaurien when, in June, it gives nothing»