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Birthdays
1262 - Arthur II, Duke of Brittany
1821 - Charles Tupper (Prime Minister of Canada)
1925 - Patrice Lumumba (Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Deaths
1566 - Nostradamus (French astrologer)
1656 - François-Marie, comte de Broglie (Italian-born French commander)
1778 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Swiss philosopher)
1926 - Émile Coué (French psychologist)
Milestones/Events
1613 - First English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia
1950 - Henri Queuille became Prime Minister of France
1966 - French military exploded a nuclear test bomb in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific
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