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In the calendar
Holy Flower Born in Maurs (Cantal) around 1300, entered the hospice of Beaulieu (Lot) at a very young age, belonging to the Knights of Saint-Jean of Jerusalem, and died there in 1347. Fleurs are imaginative and intelligent. Their color: orange. Their figures: 6, 7 and 9.
It happened on October 5
1789 Women’s March from Paris to Versailles 1983 The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Lech Walesa. 1984 Storm Hortense devastates Aquitaine. 1988 Chilean referendum leading to the defeat of Augusto Pinochet. 1989 The Dalai Lama receives the Nobel Peace Prize. 1995 A week after his coup in the Comoros, French mercenary Bob Denard and his men surrender to the French soldiers. 1999 Parliament officially recognizes the Algerian War, 37 years after the end of the conflict. 2018 A painting by British street artist Banksy partially self-destructed after being sold at auction for more than a million euros at Sotheby’s in London.
They were born on October 5
Denis Diderot, French writer and philosopher (1713 – 1784), Louis Lumière, French chemist and industrialist, the father of cinema (1864 – 1948), Ray Kroc, American founder of McDonald’s (1902 – 1984), Marie Laforêt, singer and actress French (1939 – 2019), Brian Johnson, Scottish singer of the rock group AC/DC (1947).