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óæå ïðîøëî 23 December

1888 : Van Gogh cuts off his ear While he is at Arles with his friend Gauguin, and suffering from depression, the painter Vincent Van Gogh cuts off his left ear lobe with a razor.
1947 : Invention of the transistor The Bell Telephone searchers, americans John Bardeen, William Shockley and Walter Brattain invented the transistor on December 23th 1947. This invention won them the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956.
1966 : Mirage F1 made its first flight The Mirage F1, made by Dassault, made its first flight Dec. 23th, 1966.
1982 : A city evacuated due to dioxin contamination On December 23, 1982, U.S. health authorities announced to the people of Times Beach, Missouri, they must definitely leave the city due to contamination of the streets with dioxin. The streets were constantly invaded by dust because they were not paved or tarred and City Hall had the idea to ask a waste company to spray the streets with oil. The company then sprayed engine oil in all the streets. With this oil was mixed with toxic dioxin so that people fell ill and therefore the city had to be evacuated. The federal and state governments also had to buy all the houses in the city, before destroying it.

National Day of Japan
Birthday of Emperor Akihito (1933)

Proverbe Indien
Do good to your body so your soul will want to stay.

Richard Arkwright, English inventor and industrialist (1732)
Alexandre I , Tsar of All the Russias (1777)
Jean-François Champollion, Decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs (1790)
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (1804)
Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1911)
Dino Risi, Italian director and scenarist (1916)
Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany (1918)
Albert Jacquard, French biologist and writer (1925)
Pierre Bérégovoy, French politician (1925)
Akihito, Emperor of Japan (1933)
Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (1943)
Harry Shearer, American actor (1943)
Georges Aperghis, Greek composer (1945)
Anthony Phillips, English musician (Genesis) (1951)
Dave Murray, English guitarist (Iron Maiden) (1956)
Jean-Luc Lahaye, French author and singer (1958)
Eddie Vedder, American musician (Pearl Jam) (1964)
Carla Bruni, French singer (1968)
Owen Franks, New Zealand All Black rugby player (1987)

Abraham Joshua Heshel, Rabbi Polish naturalized american (1972)
Peggy Guggenheim, American collector and patron (1979)
Pierre Gripari, French writer (1990)
Raymond Cousse, French actor and playwright (1991)
Louis Leprince-Ringuet, French physicist (2000)
Joe Strummer, English singer (2002)
Oscar Peterson, Canadian pianist and jazz composer (2007)
Denise Darcel, French actress (2011)

Using a cotton pad and cigarette ash gently rub the glasses of your sunglasses.
Then rinse and admire the result!

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