Today in Francophone History

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Birthdays

1489 - Antoine, Duke of Lorraine

1665 - Zacharie Robutel de La Noue (French Canadian soldier)

1694 - François Quesnay (French economist)

1787 - Constant Prévost (French geologist)

1894 - La Bolduc (French Canadian singer)

1907 - Jacques Roumain (Haitian writer)

1916 - Fernand Leduc (Québécois painter)

1971 - Joseph Kabila (President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo)

1983 - Emmanuel Eboué (Ivorian soccer player)


Deaths

1206 - Adèle of Champagne (wife of Louis VII of France)

1585 - Muretus (French humanist)

1973 - Maurice René Fréchet (French mathematician)


Milestones/Events

1760 - Le Grand Dérangement: New England planters arrived to claim land in Nova Scotia Canada taken from the Acadians

1783 - Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, les frères Mongolfier, publicly demonstrated their montgolfière (hot air balloon)

1794 - British troops captured Port-au-Prince in Haiti

1859 - Italian Independence Wars: Battle of Magenta - French army defeated an Austrian army

1920 - Paris: Treaty of Trianon - Hungary lost 71% of its territory and 63% of its population

1936 - Léon Blum became Prime Minister of France

1940 - World War II: Evacuation of troops from Dunkirk to France ended


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