1939 Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre.
1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II
1940 General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London.
1940 World War II: sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.
1965 First bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon).
1982 President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat in the Falkland Islands.
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