It is the 178th day of the year, and today we celebrate St. Fernand's Day. Ferdinand, born near Salamanca in 1199, died in Seville on May 30, 1252, king of Castile, he drove the Arabs from this province as well as from Navarre, Leon and Aragon. On the weather side, the heat is almost generalized throughout the France on Tuesday. The sun rose a minute later at 05:51, and will set as the day before at 21:57.
Some 27 June
1905: Mutiny of the Russian battleship "Potemkin"
»1935: birth of actor Laurent Terzieff (died July 2, 2010)
1964: creation of the ORTF
1977: Independence of Djibouti
1988: collision of two suburban trains at the Gare de Lyon in Paris. 56 dead
1991: 20 dead in a fire in Barbotan-les-Thermes (Gers)
1999: death of former Greek dictator George Papadopoulos, strongman of the "regime of the colonels" (1967-1974)
2007: British Prime Minister Tony Blair hands down to his Finance Minister Gordon Brown
2012: Queen Elizabeth II exchanges a historic handshake with Martin McGuinness, former leader of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast
2018: promulgation of the law on the reform of the SNCF as a public limited company after 36 days of strike spread over three months
Some birthdays
Tony Leung (born 1962), Hong Kong actor
Tobey Maguire (born 1975), American actor
The saying of the day
«St. Fernand's Day, heat and laughing sun»