Today we celebrate Sainte-Aimée.
We are the 52nd day of the year, we celebrate Sainte-Aimée. After a visit to her aunt, the young woman from an illustrious family of Assisi, the Offreduccio, decided to become a nun (1200-1252).
The Moon is not visible on Monday due to the new Moon, a period during which the satellite is between the Sun and the Earth. Its visible part is therefore not illuminated by the Sun.
The sun rises two minutes earlier at 7:52 a.m. and sets two minutes later at 6:18 p.m. As for the weather, expect morning fog, as well as dry and mild weather in the afternoon.
February 20
1911: publication of the last issue of the oldest newspaper in the world, theTsching Pao» Chinese born in 713
1942: Resistance fighter Jean Bruller publishes, under the pseudonym Vercors, thesilence of the sea» published by Editions de Minuit
1947: Lord Mounbatten becomes Viceroy of India
1951: premiere of “Lesson» by Ionesco
1962: John Glenn becomes the first American to perform a flight in orbit (capsule “Mercury“)
1986: “The Five» the first private and free French television channel, begins broadcasting
2002: inauguration of the European park “Vulcania» in Saint-Ours-les-Roches (Puy-de-Dôme)
2014: death of Antoinette Fouque, co-founder of the Women’s Liberation Movement (MLF) in 1968
2017: Martin Fourcade becomes the most successful Frenchman in the history of the Olympic Games, after France’s victory in the mixed biathlon relay in PyeongChang (South Korea)
some birthdays
Mike Leigh, English director, born in 1943
Cindy Crawford, American model born in 1966
Rihanna, Barbadian pop star, born in 1988
The saying of the day
“Often, at Sainte-Aimée, the countryside is snowy»