It is the 172nd day of the year, the day of the beginning of summer. The summer solstice is the longest day of the year, it often falls on June 21, but sometimes also the day before or the next day.
Today, strong thunderstorms will hit the southwest of the France. We celebrate St. Rudolph, who lived in the ninth century and died in 866. He was the bishop of Bourges for 25 years and founded several monasteries.
What is the saying of the day?
«Who in June is doing well, in July will fear nothing.»
What happened on June 21?
- 1857: first edition of Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal
- 1905: birth of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (died April 15, 1980) "Is it harmful to people to give them freedom of spirit?" he asked in his play Les Mouches
- 1943: arrest of Jean Moulin in Caluire (Rhône)
- 1963: Jean-Baptiste Montini becomes Pope Paul VI
- 1990: An earthquake in Iran kills 40,000 people in the provinces of Gilan and Zanjan, northwest of Tehran
- 1994: François Mitterrand inaugurates the Grande Galerie de l'Evolution zoologique at the Museum of Natural History in Paris
- 2004: American pilot Mike Melvill makes the first private suborbital flight aboard the SpaceShipOne spacecraft
- 2013: UNESCO inscribes the Italian volcano Etna as a World Heritage Site, which rises to 3300 meters
- 2017: Prince Mohammed bin Salman becomes heir to the Saudi throne
Who was born on June 21?
- Françoise Sagan, writer born in 1935 and died on September 24, 2004. "When you are off to a bad start, you have to try to continue," she said on Canal Plus in September 1989.
- Gérard Lanvin, actor born in 1950
- Michel Platini (born 1955), footballer
- François Baroin, politician born in 1965
- Florent Marchet, singer-songwriter born in 1975
- Prince William, first child of Prince Charles, future King Charles III, and Lady Diana, born in 1982
- Edward Snowden, former consultant to the US National Security Agency (NSA) and now whistleblower, born in 1983
- Amel Bent, singer born in 1985. "When you're on stage you don't feel tired or hungry," she said in August 2007.
- Lana Del Rey (born 1985), American singer