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Birthdays

1663 - Guillaume Amontons (French physicist and inventor)

1811 - Theophile Gautier (French poet and novelist)

Deaths

1422 - King Henry V of England

1795 - François-André Danican Philidor (French chess player)

1799 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin (French architect)

1867 - Charles Baudelaire (French poet)

1963 - Georges Braque (French painter)

Milestones/Events

1871 - Adolphe Thiers became first president of the Third Republic

1907 - Triple Entente alliance (France, England, and Russia)

1992 - Republic of the Congo: Pascal Lissouba inaugurated as President

1997 - Paris: Princess Diana died in a car crash

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