The ephemeris of June 5: in 1983, Yannick Noah won Roland-Garros

On June 5, 1983, Frenchman Yannick Noah won the legendary Roland-Garros tournament . At just 23 years old, he achieved the feat that every tennis player covets, defeating the Swedish Mats Wilander, the defending champion, finally succeeding Marcel Bernard (1946). More than forty years later, no Frenchman has succeeded him, making this victory historic.

In 1991, the athlete, son of Cameroonian footballer Zacharie Noah, began a singing career, to which he devoted himself full-time, with success. His first hit, "Saga Africa", from the album Black & What , became the hit of the summer of 1991.

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In the calendar

Saint Igor II , King of Muscovy, was dethroned in 1146 after six weeks of reign and, having become religious, was assassinated in the church of his monastery a year later by his political opponents. The Igors are intelligent and generous. Their color: red. Their number: 4

The saying of the day : “A meadow is very worthless when, in June, it yields nothing.”

It happened on June 5th

1305 The Archbishop of Bordeaux, Bertrand de Got, is named Pope. 1921 Death of the writer Georges Feydeau. 1947 The General Marshall proposes the European reconstruction plan that bears his name. 1967 The Six-Day War begins in the Sinai. 1981 The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports its observations of a rare disease that will later be named AIDS. 2000 For the first time in France, a team from La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital succeeds in implanting a completely autonomous artificial heart. 2004 Noël Mamère celebrates the first same-sex marriage in France in Bègles, which will be annulled by the courts on July 27.

2017 Montenegro becomes the 29th member state of NATO.

Jacques Demy, French filmmaker and screenwriter (1931-1990), Guy Carlier, French author and columnist (1949), Carole Fredericks, American singer (1952-2001), Mark Wahlberg, American actor (1971), Aurélie Godet, French wakeboarder (2003).