Every day of 2025 in La Presse, 365 stories that took place in La Manche

Par

Editorial La Presse de la Manche

Published on

Jan 1, 2025 at 12:00 p.m.

See my news
Follow La Presse de la Manche

Please note that every day of this year 2025, we will tell you on a full page, a story that took place in the English Channel that day.

On paper and on the web

Concrete examples with the two pages which follow (pages 4 and 5) devoted to 1^is January (there was no paper edition yesterday) and January 2. The page of 1^is January tells the grounding of the container ship Kini-Kersten on Rozel beach on 1^is January 1987. The January 2 page focuses on the installation of the Bank of France in Cherbourg on January 2, 1883. Tomorrow, January 3, 2025, we will return to the birth of the commune of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin: it was January 3, 2016. On Saturday, we will talk about the fire on the liner Atlantic January 4, 1933. And so on until December 31.

For our readers who prefer digital, the same articles are accessible (paid) on our Actu.fr site via a folder which will gradually group together all the articles in the series.

Finally, third editorial part of our operation 365 days in the Channel: At the end of each quarter this year, all the articles from the three months of the quarter will be brought together in a special issue (with a new layout) of 184 pages. At the end of 2025, we will have published 4 special editions which will total some 760 pages of Manchese history.

All subjects, the whole department, all periods

What subjects? All topics. News, sports, politics, economics, social, technical, culture, celebrities… Everything that has marked the history of the department at one time or another.

Which territory? The whole Channel, from Mont Saint-Michel to La Hague, from Cherbourg to Villedieu via Carentan, Val de Saire, Saint-Lô…

Videos: currently on Actu

What eras? All eras, as far back as we can go back in the history of the department, provided that we have sufficiently well-argued sources, a certain date and images to illustrate our history.

Happy reading!

Some good leaves to make your mouth water.

A riddle to start 2025 on the right foot? What important event for the Channel happened on January 26, 1969? It takes place in the world of horses and it's a feat that has never been repeated since. That day, Henri Levesque, owner and trainer of horses in Beuzevile-la-Bastille, won his 5th Prix d'Amérique with Upsalin.
Another one ? January 12, 2009 in Saint-Lô? That day, all of France learned that the Manche prefecture was not the quiet little town that President Sarkozy thought it was: he learned this the hard way…
The first evening at the Cherbourg theater? January 28, 1882. The arrival of Acadian settlers in Cherbourg? January 17, 1760. Do you remember that a player licensed in a club in Cotentin has already won a major tennis tournament on the ATP circuit? No ? So, we will have to wait until February 14 to find out more about Yahiya Doumbia's victory in Lyon in 1988.
And by the way, what was the name of the last supertanker that came to Cherbourg in 1977 to carry out its tests? See you in our February 19 edition…
March 11? It's not that far away, but what year was that mega-snowstorm that blocked the entire department for almost a week? Answer to the question in a few weeks…
And in the meantime, there are already the first two days of this 365 days in the Channel series in today's edition…