Today in Francophone History

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Birthdays

1854 - Robert Laird Borden (Prime Minister of Canada)

1913 - Aimé Césaire (Martiniquais poet and politician, one of the three pères of la Négritude)

1936 - Jean-Claude Cardinal Turcotte (Archbishop of Montréal)

1941 - Yves Beauchemin (Canadian novelist)

1961 - Greg LeMond (first American and first non-European to win the Tour de France)

1972 - Garou (Canadian singer)


Deaths

1291 - Eleanor of Provence (wife of Henry III of England)

1810 - Joseph Michel Montgolfier (French inventor of the hot air balloon)

1836 - Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (French composer of La Marseillaise)

1922 - Albert I Prince of Monaco

1947 - Richard Bedford Bennett (Prime Minister of Canada)

1967 - Françoise Dorléac (French actress)

2003 - Marc-Vivien Foé (Cameroonian soccer player)


Holidays/Celebrations

Madagascar - Independence Day


Milestones/Events

1807 - Luxembourg: Lightning hit a warehouse, killing 230 people

1848 - Paris: End of the June Days Uprising

1918 - World War I: Battle for Belleau Wood

1945 - The United Nations Charter was signed in San Francisco

1949 - Pierre Sabbagh presented the first televised news on Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF)


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