French lawyer and politician, 12th President of France (born 1859)

Alexandre Millerand

Alexandre Millerand was a French politician who served as President of France from 1920 to 1924, having previously served as Prime Minister of France earlier in 1920. His participation in Waldeck-Rousseau's cabinet at the start of the 20th century, alongside the Marquis de Galliffet, who had directed the repression of the 1871 Paris Commune, sparked a debate in the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) and in the Second International about the participation of socialists in bourgeois governments.

Born

1859

February 10

Died

1943

Era

1850s

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Alexandre, in brief

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1859 Born
1943 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

1258 The Siege of Baghdad ends with the surrender of the last Abbasid caliph to Hulegu Khan, a prince of the Mongol Empire.
1306 In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparking the revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
1355 The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1392 Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos marries Helena Dragaš, daughter of the Serbian Prince Constantine Dragaš. She is crowned as empress the following day.

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The world in 1943

When Alexandre departed

april 13 World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London and the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
april 13 The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth.
april 16 Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD. He intentionally takes the drug three days later on April 19.
april 18 World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on February 10

Adelina Patti 1843–1919 Italian-French opera singer (died 1919) Ary Scheffer 1795–1858 Dutch-French painter and academic (died 1858) Bertolt Brecht 1898–1956 German poet, playwright, and director (born 1898) C. J. Anderson 1991– American football player Greg Norman 1955– Australian golfer and sportscaster Ira Remsen 1846–1927 American chemist and academic (died 1927) Lee Hsien Loong 1952– Singaporean general and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Singapore Lilly King 1997– American swimmer Lon Chaney Jr. 1906–1973 American actor (died 1973)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1859

A. E. Housman 1859–1936 English poet and scholar (born 1859) Alfred Dreyfus 1859–1935 French colonel (born 1859) Arthur Conan Doyle 1859–1930 British writer, creator of Sherlock Holmes (born 1859) Cass Gilbert 1859–1934 American architect (born 1859) Fanny Bullock Workman 1859–1925 American geographer and mountain climber (born 1859) George Giffen 1859–1927 Australian cricketer and footballer (died 1927) Hendrik Wortman 1859–1939 Dutch civil engineer (died 1939) John Jellicoe 1859–1935 1st Earl Jellicoe, English admiral and politician, 2nd Governor-General of New Zealand (died 1935) Venustiano Carranza 1859–1920 Mexican soldier and politician, 37th President of Mexico (died 1920)

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