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The ephemeris of Wednesday, June 7

2023-06-07T05:31:35.712Z

Highlights: Today we celebrate the Gilberts. It is the 158th day of the year, and we are celebrating St. Gilbert's Day. He took part in the Second Crusade and built two monasteries on his return. On the weather side, we expect today strong heat on the Atlantic coast. The sun rises one minute earlier at 05:50 and sets one minute later at 21:49. Some birthdays include James Ivory (born 1928), American film director Tom Jones (born 1940) and Mike Pence (born 1959)


Today we celebrate the Gilberts.


It is the 158th day of the year, and we are celebrating St. Gilbert's Day. He took part in the Second Crusade and built two monasteries on his return. He died in 1152. On the weather side, we expect today strong heat on the Atlantic coast. The sun rises one minute earlier at 05:50 and sets one minute later at 21:49.

Some 7 June

1905: Norway becomes independent from Sweden

1917: birth of American singer and actor Dean Martin (died December 25, 1995)

1920: birth of PCF Secretary General Georges Marchais (died 16 November 1997)

1929: Constitution of the Vatican State of which the Pope is the absolute sovereign

1936: signing of the Matignon agreements instituting paid holidays

1937: death at age 26 of American actress Jean Harlow

1980: death of American writer Henry Miller

2001: President Jacques Chirac inaugurates the TGV Méditerranée linking Paris to Marseille in three hours

2013: death of Pierre Mauroy, Socialist Prime Minister at the beginning of François Mitterrand's presidency

2015: death of British actor Christopher Lee who played Dracula on screen and played in James Bond, Star Wars and the Lord of the Rings

2017: publication in the journal Nature of two studies on the discovery in Jebel Irhoud (Morocco) of 300,000-year-old remains of Homo sapiens considered the oldest in the world

Some birthdays

James Ivory (born 1928), American film director

Tom Jones (born 1940), British singer

Orhan Pamuk (born 1952), Turkish writer

Fred Vargas, writer born in 1957

Mike Pence (born 1959), former U.S. Vice President

Roberto Alagna, French-Italian tenor born in 1963

Damien Hirst, British artist born in 1965

The saying of the day

«Eau de juin animates the mill»

Source: lefigaro

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