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- 1910: birth of Django Reinhardt, very influential Roma jazz guitarist
- 1930: the first page of Hergé's comic strip Quick & Flupke appears in Le Petit Vingtième
- 1960: Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh (pictured) become the first persons to reach the deepest point on the Earth's surface, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench
- 1978: Baron Édouard-Jean Empain is kidnapped and has his little finger amputated, only to be freed two months later
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