EPHEMERIDE DU JOUR

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Saint-Baudouin. Archidiacre de Laon, assassiné lors d'un complot politique en 879.

Les Baudouin ont de la force et de la volonté.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Le dicton du jour :

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       « En octobre tonnerre, vendanges prospères »

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Ça s'est passé un 17 octobre :

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 1815 : l'empereur Napoléon débarque sur l'île de Sainte-Hélène où il restera prisonnier jusqu'à sa mort le 5 mai 1821

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              1849 : Mort du compositeur Frédéric Chopin

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         1956 : la reine Elizabeth d'Angleterre inaugure à Calder Hall la plus grande centrale atomique du monde

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       1957 : Albert Camus obtient le prix Nobel de littérature

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    1960 : premier numéro de la revue "Jeune Afrique"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   1969 : mort du Père Boulogne, doyen mondial des patients ayant subi une transplantation cardiaque

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       1972 : naissance du rappeur américain Eminem  ... Heureux anniversaire à Eminem ("photo" en  titre de l'article)   42 ans aujourd'hui !

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     1978 : le Soviétique Anatoli Karpov conserve son titre de champion du monde d'échecs contre le Soviétique dissident Vladimir Kortchnoi

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         1983 : mort du philosophe et sociologue Raymond Aron

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     1987 : à l'initiative du père Joseph Wresinski, fondateur du mouvement ATD-Quart Monde, la journée du 17 octobre devient la Journée mondiale du refus de la misère

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               1989 : un séisme à San Francisco fait 63 morts

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1991 : accident de chemin de fer à Melun : 16 morts, 55 blessés

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1992 : Rigoberta Menchu (Guatemala), Prix Nobel de la paix

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               2012 : François Hollande reconnaît officiellement au nom de la République la "sanglante répression"des manifestations d'Algériens le 17 octobre 1961 à Paris (plusieurs dizaines à environ 200 morts, selon les sources)