1994 in France
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Events from the year 1994 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 20 March – Cantonales Elections held.
- 24 March – Cantonales Elections held.
- 20 April – Paul Touvier is found guilty of ordering the execution of seven Jews at Rillieux-la-Pape in June 1944, becoming the first French national to be charged with crimes against humanity committed during the German occupation of France in the Second World War.[1]
- 6 May – The Channel Tunnel is opened by President François Mitterrand and Elizabeth II in two separate ceremonies held in Calais and Folkestone.[2]
- 12 June – European Parliament election held in France.
- 30 June – Airbus A330 test flight crash in Toulouse, killing 3 crew and 4 passengers.
- 4 August – Toubon Law enacted.
- 3 November – A French magazine publishes photo of President François Mitterrand's secret daughter.
- 13 November – The first passengers travel through the Channel Tunnel.
- December 7 L'étrange Noël de monsieur Jack on French Movie Theater
- 24 December – Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked in Algiers airport.
- 26 December – Air France aircraft is flown to Marseille and stormed by the GIGN, 4 hijackers and 3 others were killed.
Arts and literature
Sport
- 2 July – Tour de France begins. Two stages take place in England.
- 3 July – Michael Schumacher wins the French Grand Prix held at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours.[3]
- 24 July – Tour de France ends, won by Miguel Indurain of Spain.
Births
- 19 January - Adrien Hunou, footballer
- 23 January - Wesley Jobello, footballer
- 13 February - Axel Reymond, Marathon swimmer
- 3 March - Abdoulaye Touré, footballer.
- 27 May - Aymeric Laporte, footballer
- 13 June - Guy-Elphège Anouman, sprinter
- 14 June - Romain Habran, footballer.
- 3 August - Corentin Tolisso, footballer
- 17 August - Tiémoué Bakayoko, footballer
- 15 September – Raphael Severe, clarinet player.
- 27 October - Kurt Zouma, footballer
- 8 November - Damien Dussaut, footballer.
Deaths
January to March
- 2 January – Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, fourth managing director of the International Monetary Fund (born 1912).
- 15 January – Gabriel-Marie Garrone, Cardinal (born 1901).
- 22 January – Jean-Louis Barrault, actor, director and mime artist (born 1910).
- 24 January – Yves Navarre, writer (born 1940).
- 27 January – Alain Daniélou, historian, musicologist and Indologist (born 1907).
- 30 January – Pierre Boulle, novelist (born 1912).
- 11 February – Max Leognany, artist (born 1913).
- 16 February – François Marty, Roman Catholic Cardinal (born 1904).
- 24 February – Jean Sablon, singer and actor (born 1906).
- 9 March – Paul Dubreil, mathematician (born 1904).
- 28 March – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born playwright (born 1909).
- 31 March – Henri Gouhier, philosopher, historian of philosophy and literary critic (born 1898).
April to June
- 1 April – Robert Doisneau, photographer (born 1912).
- 3 April – Jérôme Lejeune, paediatrician and geneticist (born 1926).
- 9 April – Marcel Ichac, alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director (born 1906).
- 14 April – Jean Joyet, painter (born 1919).
- 17 April – Gaston Charlot, chemist (born 1904).
- 20 April – Jean Carmet, actor (born 1920).
- 29 April – Marcel Bernard, tennis player (born 1914).
- 16 May – Alain Cuny, actor (born 1908).
- 19 May – Jacques Ellul, philosopher, sociologist, theologian (born 1912).
- 3 June – Puig Aubert, rugby league footballer (born 1925).
- 14 June – Marcel Mouloudji, singer and actor (born 1922).
- 16 June – Bernard Moitessier, yachtsman and author (born 1925).
- 27 June – Jacques Berthier, composer (born 1923).
July to September
- 8 July – Christian-Jaque, filmmaker (born 1904).
- 17 July – Jean Borotra, tennis player (born 1898).
- 19 August – Louis de Froment, conductor (born 1921).
- 16 September – Albert Decourtray, Roman Catholic Cardinal (born 1923).
- 23 September – Madeleine Renaud, actress (born 1900).
- 30 September – André Michel Lwoff, microbiologist, awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1965 (born 1902).
October to December
- 15 October – Jean Dasté, actor and theatre director (born 1904).
- 21 October – Benoît Régent, actor (born 1953).
- 30 November
- Guy Debord, Marxist theorist, writer and filmmaker (born 1931).
- Louis Gabrillargues, soccer player (born 1914).
- 7 December – Pierre Cloarec, cyclist (born 1909).
- 13 December – Antoine Pinay, politician and Prime Minister of France (born 1891).
- 18 December – Roger Apéry, mathematician (born 1916).
- 25 December – Pierre Dreyfus, civil servant and businessman (born 1907).
Full date unknown
- Raymond Molinier, Trotskyist (born 1904).
gollark: I'm okay with the social distancing stuff as long as they do not do it forever or pretend they can, and as long as most relevant law stuff is rolled back after the whole COVID-19 situation is over.
gollark: As far as I am aware it hasn't been demonstrated to work. There have been trials going on for a while.
gollark: You are going to have problems isolating for a year, especially if basically nobody else is.
gollark: It's worrying to me that the UK is seemingly doing quite badly, since I live there.
gollark: There's this nice COVID-19 display on a Minecraft server I'm on.
See also
References
- Riding, Alan (20 April 1994). "Frenchman Convicted of Crimes Against the Jews in '44". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- "1994: President and Queen open Chunnel". BBC On This Day. British Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- Tremayne, David (August 1994). "1994 French Grand Prix race report - two into three won't go". Motorsport. Vol. 70 no. 8. pp. 808–815. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
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