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Birthdays

1639 - Jean Racine (French dramatist)

1819 - Pierre Ossian Bonnet (French mathematician)

1872 - Camille Guérin (French veterinarian and bacteriologist)

1883 - Edgard Varèse (French-born composer)

1972 - Vanessa Paradis (French singer and actress)

Deaths

1660 - André Tacquet, (Belgian mathematician)

1867 - Jean-Victor Poncelet (French mathematician)

Milestones/Events

1894 - France: Beginning of the Dreyfus affair - Alfred Dreyfus wrongly convicted of treason, on anti-Semitic grounds

1974 - Grande Comore, Anjouan, and Mohéli voted to become the independent nation of Comoros, while Mayotte remained under French administration

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