On this day of the UK General Election, I was trying to find
a political anniversary for this posting and I was successful, although not a
British anniversary as such.
Today is 20 years to the day that Jacques Chirac
became the President of France.
Chirac was elected on a mandate of tax cuts, budgetary
cutbacks and job enablement programmes, all which did little to help him in the
early months of his legislation, with widespread industrial action, leading to
a general strike. As you might say, the French were revolting – no change there
then!
Today’s other bits and pieces:
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| Jimmy Ruffin |
Eva Peron, Argentinian actress and First lady was born on
this day in 1919. She died in 1952.
American soul singer Jimmy Ruffin was born today in 1936. He
passed away in Las Vegas
in 2014 aged 78.
At the age of 90, American actor/producer and highly
decorated naval captain in World War II, Douglas Fairbanks Jr died on this day
in 2000
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