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Birthdays
1530 - Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé (French Huguenot general)
1748 - Olympe de Gouges (French playwright and feminist revolutionary)
1954 - Philippe Geluck (Belgian cartoonist)
Milestones/Events
1274 - France: Second Council of Lyons opened to regulate the election of the Pope
1429 - Hundred Years' War: Siege of Orléans ended
1945 - World War II: Germany unconditionally surrendered in Reims, France
1948 - Council of Europe was suggested during the Hague Congress
1954 - Indochina War: Battle of Dien Bien Phu ended in a French defeat
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