War · August 8, 1918

Hundred Days Offensive

Name: Hundred Days Offensive
Start: 1918-08-08
Location: France

108 years ago · France

108th anniversary

The Hundred Days Offensive (8 August to 11 November 1918) was a series of massive Allied offensives that ended the First World War.

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1851–1929

Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch ( FOSH, French:; 2 October 1851 – 20 March 1929) was a French general, Marshal of France and a member of the Académie Française and Académie des Sciences. He distinguished himself as Supreme Allied Commander on the Western Front during the First World War in 1918.

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1856–1951

Philippe Pétain

Henri Philippe Benoni Omar Joseph Pétain (French:; 24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951), also known as Marshal Pétain (French: maréchal Pétain,), was a French military officer, dictator, and politician who commanded the French Army in World War I and later became the head of the Axis-collaborationist regime of Vichy France,…

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b. 1981

Roger Federer

Roger Federer ( FED-ər-ər; Swiss Standard German:; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No.

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1902–1984

Paul Dirac

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac ( dih-RAK; 8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics. Dirac laid the foundations for both quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, coining the former term.

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1951–2019

Mohamed Morsi

Mohamed Mohamed Morsi Eissa Al-Ayyat (Arabic: مُحَمَّد مُحَمَّد مُرْسِي عِيسَى العَيَّاط, romanized: Muḥammad Muḥammad Mursī ʿĪsā al-ʿAyyāṭ, IPA:; 8 August 1951 – 17 June 2019) was an Egyptian politician, engineer, and professor who served as the fifth president of Egypt from 2012 to 2013, when General Abdel Fattah…

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b. 1937

Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker. As one of the key leading man actors in the formation of New Hollywood, Hoffman is known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and emotionally vulnerable characters.

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