Ivorian academic and politician, 4th President of Côte d'Ivoire

Laurent Gbagbo

Koudou Laurent Gbagbo is an Ivorian politician who was the president of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000 until his arrest in April 2011. He was the first president in the history of the country that was a centre-left politician. A historian, Gbagbo was imprisoned in the early 1970s and again in the early 1990s, and he lived in exile in France during much of the 1980s as a result of his union activism. Gbagbo founded the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) in 1982 and ran unsuccessfully for president against Félix Houphouët-Boigny at the start of multi-party politics in 1990.

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1945

May 31

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455 Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.
1215 Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
1223 Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River: Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus' and Cumans.
1293 Mongols depart Java after the failed Mongol invasion against King Kertanegara of Singhasari.

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april 1 World War II: The Tenth United States Army attacks the Thirty-Second Japanese Army on Okinawa.
april 11 World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
april 12 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office; Vice President Harry S. Truman succeeds him.
april 12 World War II: The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reaches Tangermünde—only 80 kilometres from Berlin.

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Archie Panjabi 1972– British actress Bernard Goldberg 1945– American journalist and author Chien-Shiung Wu 1912–1997 Chinese-American physicist and academic (born 1912) Dave Roberts 1972– American baseball player and coach Denholm Elliott 1922–1992 English-Spanish actor (died 1992) John Ringling 1866–1936 American businessman, co-founded Ringling Brothers Circus (born 1866) Manuel I of Portugal (died 1521) 1469– Norman Vincent Peale 1898–1993 American minister and author (born 1898) Phil Keoghan 1967– New Zealand television host and producer

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