François Mitterrand died on 8 January 1996 in 7th arrondissement of Paris, aged 79. A French politician, Mitterrand took part in the Resistance during the Second World War and held ministerial posts in the Fourth Republic. For years he was the main opponent of Charles de Gaulle and the Fifth Republic, and he rebuilt the Socialist Party, which he led from 1971. He was elected president in 1981, the first Socialist to hold the office under the Fifth Republic, and was re-elected in 1988. His presidency saw the abolition of the death penalty, the nationalization of key industries, major building projects in Paris such as the Louvre pyramid and the Opéra Bastille, and close cooperation with Helmut Kohl in building the European Union. Revelations about his Vichy past and his illness marked his final years.
Before and after
- 1996Creation of OCaml
- 1996Creation of Active Server Pages
- 1996Creation of Windows Embedded Compact
- 1996Origins of Super Rugby
- 8 January 1996Death of François Mitterrand
- 30 January 1996Discovery of Comet Hyakutake
- from 13 February 1996 to 21 November 2006Nepalese Civil War
- 17 February 1996Launch of NEAR Shoemaker
- 27 February 1996Launch of Integrated Taxonomic Information System
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