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View of the City of Washington in 1792. L'Enfant was a French artist and engineer who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. [5] In 1789, discussions were underway regarding a new federal capital city for the United States, and L'Enfant wrote to President Washington asking to be commissioned to plan the city.
Mémorial de la Shoah. Of the six million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust, 76,000 were deported from France (approximately 2,500 survived).
When he sailed for France in December 1918 for the Paris Peace Conference, he became the first sitting president to travel to Europe. [9] He spent nearly seven months in Europe, interrupted by a brief nine-day return to the U.S. in late February 1919. [10] Wilson was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize for his peacemaking efforts. [11]
Pan Am Flight 115 was a commercial flight from Paris via London to New York City.At 22:05 GMT (16:05 EDT) on February 3, 1959 it was involved in one of the most significant jet upset incidents of the jet airliner age, over the North Atlantic near Newfoundland.
John Henry Lahr (born July 12, 1941) is an American theater critic and writer. [1] From 1992 to 2013, he was a staff writer and the senior drama critic at The New Yorker . [ 2 ] He has written more than twenty books related to theater. [ 2 ]
Michel Louis-Marie Richard (/ m ɪ ˈ ʃ ɛ l r ɪ ˈ ʃ ɑːr d / mish-EL rish-ARD, French: [miʃɛl ʁiʃaʁ]; March 7, 1948 – August 13, 2016) was a French-born chef, formerly the owner of the restaurant Citrus in Los Angeles and Citronelle and Central in Washington, D.C.
Brasserie Les Halles was a French-brasserie-style restaurant located on 15 John Street (between Broadway & Nassau Street; in the Financial District) in Manhattan, New York City. [1] [2] Previous locations were on Park Avenue South in Manhattan, in Tokyo, Miami, and Washington, D.C. Author and television host Anthony Bourdain was the predecessor ...
April 9 – New York Yankees, winners of the World Series. April 12 – New York Mets, upon entering the National League. [1] April 16 – Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Empress Farah of Iran. May 25 – Félix Houphouët-Boigny, president of Ivory Coast. June 5 – Scott Carpenter, following the Mercury 7 mission.