1974 in France: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
new article |
→Births: info added from Wiki article |
||
| Line 21: | Line 21: | ||
==Births== |
==Births== |
||
*[[8 February]] - [[Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo]], musician. |
*[[8 February]] - [[Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo]], musician. |
||
*[[12 September]] - [[Caroline Aigle]], first woman [[fighter pilot]] in the [[French Air Force]] (d.[[2007 in France|2007]]). |
|||
*[[11 November]] - [[Bettina Goislard]], [[United Nations]] worker (d.[[2003 in France|2003]]). |
*[[11 November]] - [[Bettina Goislard]], [[United Nations]] worker (d.[[2003 in France|2003]]). |
||
Revision as of 18:56, 26 April 2008
See also: 1973 in France, other events of 1974, 1975 in France.
Events from the year 1974 in France.
Events
- 1 March - Pierre Messmer finishes his first term as Prime Minister of France.
- 3 March - Turkish Airlines Flight 981 McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes just outside Senlis killing all 346 on board.
- 8 March - Charles de Gaulle International Airport opens in Paris.
- 2 April - President Georges Pompidou dies in office. Senate President Alain Poher becomes Acting President for the second time.
- 7 August - French acrobat Philippe Petit walks across a high wire slung between the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York.
Sport
- 27 June - Tour de France begins.
- 21 July - Tour de France ends, won by Eddy Merckx of Belgium.
Births
- 8 February - Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, musician.
- 12 September - Caroline Aigle, first woman fighter pilot in the French Air Force (d.2007).
- 11 November - Bettina Goislard, United Nations worker (d.2003).
Deaths
- 2 April - Georges Pompidou, President of France (b.1911).
- 22 June - Darius Milhaud, composer (b.1892).
- 4 September - Marcel Achard, playwright, screenwriter and author (b.1899).
- 20 December - André Jolivet, composer (b.1905).