TODAY - June 12


NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS
ON: JUNE 12

New edition
TODAY’s LENGTH:
This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 28 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 16 hours and 26 minutes – from 05.30 to 21.56.

See more – also in English – about where you are:  www.dagenslaengde.com

TODAY’s NAME:

Today’s name is BASILIUS’ DAY. He was a Christian monk from Cappadocia in Turkey, and he was killed because of his faith around year 300 AC. It happened during the persecutions of all Christians during the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian.

He was the father of Basilius the Younger, who was a very well known Father of the Church.

This day is also the United Nations’ international day against child labour.

In Belgium the day is called SAINTE ALICE.  He was a Belgian non – born in Schaerbeek in Brussels in 1220 and died in 1250.   She is the patron for blind and paralised people.

TODAY’s EVENT:

1987:  President Ronald Reagan says these famous words in his speech at the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate:  Mr. Gorbatjov, tear that wall down!


TODAY’s QUESTION:

Verdun 1916  -  what is the story behind?

This was one of the biggest and most bloody battles of World War I. Following the defeat to Germany in the war on 1870-71 France constructed a number of strong fortresses on its Eastern border to try to be protected against new attacks.  One of the biggest fortresses was build in Verdun, a town at the river Meuse, in the north-east of France.  In February 1916 the Germans decided to start a very forceful offensive against the French positions in and around Verdun. The purpose was to give the French a clear defeat, to make it bleed to death. This was not going to happen. The French under the leadership of marshal Pétain put up a very strong opposition. And by July 2016 the British forces started another huge offensive against the German positions in the Somme area. One of the purposes was to weaken the German positions in Verdun.

The battle near and in Verdun ended after 10 months in November 1916 – with 400.000 dead and wounded soldiers on the German side and equally 400.000 dead and wounded on the French side.  The Germans did not reach their objectives.  And the battles in Verdun and in the Somme were the bloodiest events during the whole war.
In May 2016 a big French-German memorial event was arranged in Verdun – with the participation of president Hollande and federal chancellor Merkel. And a new, modernized museum in available on the battleground for everybody to see how these terrible events happened and ended.

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Place where the pepper grows – where does that expression come from? And what does it mean?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

EUROPE AT WORK     www.europe-at-work.be

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

Today many men look like girls, who look like men.

            This was once said by the American actor John Wayne.

2.  Today’s quote:

If you have the ability, you also have the duty.

Who among today’s persons has said that?
3.  Famous people born on this day:

1897:  Anthony Eden  ( died 1977 )

1924:  George Bush  ( died 2018 )

1929:  Anne Frank  ( died 1945 )

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1965:  A.P. Møller  ( 89 years )

2003:  Gregory Peck  ( 87 years )

2007:  Guy de Rothschild  ( 98 years )


Niels Jørgen Thøgersen
niels4europe@gmail.com  
www.simplesite.com/kimbrer   +  EUROPE-AT-WORK    www.europe-at-work.be  

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