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Birthdays

1763 - Joseph Fouché (French statesman)

1792 - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis (French scientist)

1843 - Charles-Albert Gobat (Swiss politician)

1844 - Henri Rousseau (French artist)

1851 - Léon Bourgeois (French statesman)

1853 - Jacques Marie (Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac (French politician)

1901 - Suzanne Lilar (Belgian essayist (novelist and playwright)

1923 - Armand Borel (Swiss mathematician)

1933 - Maurice André (French trumpeter)

Deaths

987 - King Louis V of France

1894 - Émile Henry (French anarchist)

2002 - Niki de Saint Phalle (French artist))

Milestones/Events

1420 - Hundred Years' War: Battle of Agincourt - Treaty of Troyes

1871 - Semaine Sanglante began when French Government troops invaded the Paris Commune and engaged its residents in street fighting

1904 - Paris: Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) founded

1927 - Charles Lindbergh touched down in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean

1981 - Pierre Mauroy became Prime Minister of France

2001 - French Taubira law officially recognized the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity

2003 - Algeria: Earthquake killed more than 2,000 people

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