Charles de Gaulle

President of France (d. 1970)

World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.

French presidential election: Charles de Gaulle is elected President of France as his Union des Démocrates pour la République party gain 78.5% of the vote.

French President Charles de Gaulle declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals".

Charles de Gaulle is proclaimed as the first President of the French Fifth Republic.

French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in French Algeria during a visit by French president Charles de Gaulle.

Der tunesische Staatspräsident Habib Bourguiba fordert bei einem Treffen mit dem französischen Staatspräsidenten Charles de Gaulle die Rückgabe zweier Militärbasen der Franzosen in Tunesien. In der Folge sich hinzögernde Verhandlungen lassen die Bizerta-Krise entstehen.

At 3:00 pm EDT on October 22, President Kennedy formally established the Executive Committee (EXCOMM) with National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 196. At 5:00 pm, he met with Congressional leaders who contentiously opposed a blockade and demanded a stronger response. In Moscow, Ambassador Kohler briefed Chairman Khrushchev on the pending blockade and Kennedy's speech to the nation. Ambassadors around the world gave notice to non-Eastern Bloc leaders. Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response. All were supportive of the US position. On October 22 at 7:00 pm EDT, President Kennedy delivered a nation-wide televised address on all of the major networks announcing the discovery of the missiles: “It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union.” Kennedy described the administration's plan: “To halt this offensive build up, a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba is being initiated. All ships of any kind bound for Cuba, from whatever nation or port, will, if found to contain cargoes of offensive weapons, be turned back. This quarantine will be extended, if needed, to other types of cargo and carriers. We are not at this time, however, denying the necessities of life as the Soviets attempted to do in their Berlin blockade of 1948.” During the speech a directive went out to all US forces worldwide placing them on DEFCON 3. The heavy cruiser USS Newport News was designated flagship for the blockade, with the USS Leary (DD-879) as Newport News '​s destroyer escort.

Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 events in France.

Der französische Präsident Charles de Gaulle eröffnet die X. Olympischen Winterspiele in Grenoble, bei denen erstmals zwei getrennte deutsche Mannschaften antreten. Der Skirennläufer Léo Lacroix spricht den olympischen Eid, das olympische Feuer wird vom ehemaligen Eiskunstläufer Alain Calmat entzündet.

President of France (b. 1890)

Mehran Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.