Today in Francophone History

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Birthdays

1684 - Jean Astruc (French physician and scholar)

1739 - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance (Third Consul of France)

1888 - Léon Scieur (Belgian cyclist)

1900 - Frédéric Joliot-Curie (French physicist)

1981 - Kolo Touré (Ivorian soccer player)


Deaths

1263 - Hugh of St Cher (French cardinal)

1687 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle (French explorer)

1976 - Albert Dieudonné (French actor, screenwriter, and novelist)

1978 - Gaston Julia (French mathematician)

1987 - Louis, seventh duc de Broglie (French physician)

2007 - Robert Dickson (French Canadian poet, translator, and academic)


Holidays/Celebrations

Belgium - Father's Day


Milestones/Events

1687 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, was murdered by his own men

1920 - United States Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles for the second time

1946 - French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Réunion became overseas départements of France (DOM)

1962 - Algerian War of Independence: Ceasefire


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