Today is the 10th day of mobilization against pension reform. EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP
We are the 87th day of the year and today we celebrate the Gontran. King of Burgundy, he was born around 525, and died in 593. He wanted to take care of the most unfortunate.
The sun rises two minutes earlier at 7:39 a.m. and sets two minutes later at 8:14 p.m. As for the weather, the sky is mostly clear but the temperatures are low in the morning.
Some March 28
1862: birth of French politician Aristide Briand (died March 7, 1932)
1910: first flight of a seaplane on the Etang de Berre
1939: end of the civil war in Spain with the entry of Franco’s troops in Madrid
1943: death of pianist and composer Serge Rachmaninoff
1969: death of Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of the Allied forces in Europe during the Second World War then president of the United States from 1953 to 1961
1979: accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant (United States)
1993: victory of the right in the legislative elections in France
1994: death of the playwright and writer of Romanian origin Eugène Ionesco
2006: one to three million people demonstrate against the First Job Contract (CPE)
some birthdays
Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, born in 1936
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, writer born in 1960
Lady Gaga, American singer born in 1986
The saying of the day
“In Saint-Gontran, if the weather is nice, the first swallows arrive“.