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11 juin 1924 : démission d’Alexandre Millerand, président de la République depuis 1920

Un mois après les élections législatives, la Chambre des députés lui refusant sa confiance lors de sa tentative de former un nouveau gouvernement, le président de la République présente sa démission

#OTD in #WW1 Invasion of Serbia continues 1,001 years after battle at Strumica; minor Italian success at Third #Isonzo

Serbia Before we get onto the events of the day, someone has just made me aware that 1,001 years ago (give or take a couple of months), the Byzantine and Bulgarian Empires fought a Battle of Strumica, which is of course where we now find the increasingly-overstretched French force trying to defend against the Bulgarian Second Army. Yet more proof that the more things change, the more they stay…

#OTD in #WW1 French Prime Minister #Viviani scrambles to save himself; #Joffre isn't entirely secure either.

Edith Cavell Edith Cavell is a British nurse in Belgium, who had been in Brussels before the war and decided to stay on with the Germans came. She juggled hard work nursing all the injured soldiers who came to her with a more covert life helping British prisoners and men trapped behind enemy lines to escape to the Netherlands, as part of a wider resistance network that helped French and Belgian…