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December 1,1990
Construction workers broke through the last wall of rock to join the two segments of the Channel Tunnel were drilled through and fused Britain to France. -
September 14, 1991
French wine makers had a tough year due to vines being damaged by frost, hail, and mildew. -
September 24, 1992
Flooding killed 32 people and left an estimated 20 people missing after the flash floods. -
May 15, 1993
French police rescued child hostages in Besancon, France. -
May 6, 1994
The President of France and Queen opened the Channel. -
May 8, 1995
France's president Mitterrand died from prostate cancer. -
November 3, 1997
Angry truckers blockaded French ports. -
April 2, 1998
The former French cabinet minister Maurice Papon was sentenced 10 years in jail for deporting Jews from France during World War II. -
August 11, 1999
France went under a total solar eclipse. -
July 25, 2000
Concord crashed minutes after taking off and killed everyone on board. -
May 30, 2001
The former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas was jailed for six months in a huge sleaze scandal. -
January 1, 2002
Celebrations as euro hits the streets. -
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April 16, 2003
The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens. -
May 1, 2004
Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia joined the European Union (EU). -
March 3, 2006
A Jewish man by the name of Mr. Halimi, died Feb. 13, just moments after he was found by a train station 15 miles away from the crime scene by people passing by. -
October 6, 2007
France successfully beat New Zealand during the Rugby World Cup with a score or 18-20. -
December 24, 2008
France’s first woman to go to space was sent to the hospital after a suicide attempt. -
2009
2009 was a hard year on the Hard Discount sector, regardless of the downturn and the uplift given by the economic modernization law in France, was found falling farther behind. -
August 10, 2010
During August 10, France started digging for nuclear waste about ½ km below Wheat fields -
May 31, 2011
75 bodies were recovered from The Air France after two years of investigation. -
November 16, 2012
300,000 party members of Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party were asked to elect a new leader, the party's first step to rebuilding itself after presidential election defeat earlier that year. -
July 2, 2013
Geraint Thomas vowed to battle during the tour de France even with his fractured pelvis. -
December 15, 2014
The French government announced that they were banning the cheap Ubber services for the New Year. -
January 7, 2015
Gunmen shot 12 people at the Paris office of the Charlie Hebdo magazine in an Islamist attack. -
July 10, 2016
Police began patrolling the streets of Paris, France due to November’s attacks. -
December 8, 2017
Marine Le Pen announced the end of free education for all illegal immigrants.