Friday 8 May

📆 We are on Friday 8 May. This is the 128th day of the year and there are 236 days left before celebrating the new year 2027! 🍾

In the French Republican calendar, it was the equivalent of 19 Floréal, officially defined as the day of Arroche.

And based on the Year 08 calendar imagined by Reporterre, la naissance de Gary Snyder in 1930

🪽 For the Saints, know that we wish on 8 May a happy celebration to Armistice 1945 !

📜 This day in history:

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🧠 However - and because we love to show off our knowledge - note that today 8 May is also:

  • the release of the film Basic Instinct in France (1992)

😱 And the phobia of the day for 8 May (randomly chosen) is la elainophobie, which is the fear of de l'huile !

📝 Sources for 8 May :

To establish the list of events for 8 May, we relied primarily on the Wikipedia page.

More precisely and in chronological order in display order:

1 : Basic Instinct on Wikipedia