France timeline
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First Cannes Film Festival is Held
The festival began on September 20, 1946, and 18 nations were represented. The festival schedule included Austrian American director Billy Wilder's... Read more
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First Indochina War Begins with French Landings in Indochina
The First Indochina War (also known as the French Indochina War, the The Anti-French War, the Franco-Vietnamese War, the Franco-Vietminh War, the... Read more
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The NATO Agreement is Signed in Washington DC
The Treaty of Brussels, signed on 17 March 1948 by Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and the United Kingdom is considered the precursor... Read more
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The Schuman Declaration
Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto... Read more
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Air India's Malabar Princess Crashes on the Mont Blanc
1950 November 3, "Malabar Princess", a Lockheed Constellation of the Air India company, registered VT-CQP, was connecting Bombay to London via... Read more
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Tete de l'Obiou Accident
The Tete de I'Obiou accident was an airliner crash in France on 13 November 1950. Curtiss Reid Flying Services had been operating a scheduled... Read more
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Léon Jouhaux is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Léon Jouhaux (July 1, 1879–April 28, 1954) was a French trade union leader who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1951. Jouhaux's father worked... Read more
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Albert Schweitzer is Awarded the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize
Albert Schweitzer (14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was a German-French theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. He was born in... Read more
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Viet Minh Defeat French at Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu (French: Bataille de Diên Biên Phu; Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Điện Biên Phủ) was the climactic confrontation of the First... Read more
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Le Mans Disaster
As the race entered its third hour the cars were breaking records at every lap when Jaguar Driver Mike Hawthorn received a signal from his pit crew... Read more
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Operation Kadesh Begins
The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, (Arabic: أزمة السويس - العدوان الثلاثي ʾAzmat al-Sūwais/Al-ʿIdwān al-Thalāthī;... Read more
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Albert Camus is Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957 was awarded to Albert Camus "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness... Read more
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Malpasset Dam Collapse
Malpasset was an arch dam on the Reyran River, constructed approximately 7 km north of Fréjus on the Côte d'Azur, southern France, in the Var... Read more
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France tests its first atomic bomb to become the world's fourth nuclear power, code named Gerboise Bleue
Gerboise Bleue ("blue jerboa") was the name of the first French nuclear test. It was an atomic bomb detonated in the middle of the Algerian Sahara... Read more
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René Cassin is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
René Samuel Cassin (5 October 1887, Bayonne – 20 February 1976, Paris) was a French-Jewish jurist, law professor and judge. A French soldier in... Read more
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Club Cinq-Sept Fire
When the firemen arrived, they were struck by an unusual silence. Only a few flames could be seen flickering through the roof of the fortress-like,... Read more
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Turkish Airlines Flight 981 Crashes from Cargo Hatch Failure
Turkish Airlines Flight 981 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, registered TC-JAV and nicknamed the Ankara, that crashed just outside Senlis, France, on... Read more
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Seán MacBride and Eisaku Sato are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
In 1973 he was elected by the General Assembly to the post of High Commissioner for Namibia, with the rank of Assistant Secretary-General. The... Read more
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Prince Fahid of Kuwait Storms Field Mid-Game to Contest French Goal
One of the most bizarre World Cup moments occurred in 1982 during Kuwait's match with France. The French were winning 3-1 when Alain Giresse... Read more
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Gallo and Montagnier Identify the Cause of AIDS
In 1983, two separate research groups led by Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier independently declared that a novel retrovirus may have been infecting... Read more
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Jean-Claude Duvalier Leaves Haiti for France to Live in Forced Exile
In January 1986, the Reagan administration began to pressure Duvalier to renounce his rule and to leave Haiti. Representatives appointed by... Read more
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Air Inter Flight 148 Crashes, Killing 87
Air Inter Flight 148 was a scheduled airline flight on 20 January 1992 that crashed in the Vosges Mountains, near Mont Sainte-Odile, while circling... Read more
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France Defeats Brazil to Win the 1998 World Cup Final
The 1998 FIFA World Cup Final was the final round of competition held for the 1998 edition of the FIFA World Cup, a global football tournament held... Read more
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Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour Opens
The Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour (the memorial center of Oradour) has made its mission to commemorate the crimes of the 2nd armored division of... Read more
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AZF Factory Explosion
A huge explosion ripped through AZF (Azote de France) fertiliser factory in an industrial zone on the outskirts of Toulouse, southwest of France,... Read more