Le Monde is a French daily newspaper founded in Paris shortly after the liberation of the city, at the request of General de Gaulle, by the journalist Hubert Beuve-Méry as a successor to the prewar paper Le Temps. Beuve-Méry directed it until 1969 and built its reputation for independence, seriousness and thorough coverage of international affairs. It appears in the afternoon, dated the following day. For decades its journalists held a blocking minority of its capital, a safeguard of its editorial independence, until it was taken over in 2010 by a group of investors. Its website uses a subscription model, and it remains one of the most influential newspapers in the French-speaking world.
Before and after
- from 17 October 1944 to 26 December 1944Battle of Leyte
- from 20 October 1944 to 15 August 1945Philippines campaign of 1944–1945
- from 11 November 1944 to 21 December 1944Battle of Ormoc Bay
- 7 December 1944Founding of International Civil Aviation Organization
- 18 December 1944Launch of Le Monde
- from 20 December 1944 to 27 December 1944Siege of Bastogne
- from 1945 to 1947Operation B
- 1945Founding of Jodrell Bank Observatory
- 1945Founding of United Nations Economic and Social Council
More in Science & technology
- 1931Kurt Godel proves his incompleteness theorems
- 1933Karl Jansky detects radio waves from the Milky Way
- 4 March 1936First flight of LZ 129 Hindenburg
- 1 February 1942Launch of Voice of America
- October 1943Streptomycin, the first antibiotic that works against tuberculosis, is discovered
- 1944Avery, MacLeod and McCarty show that DNA carries genes
The era
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