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Events on Thursday 8 July 1943 1
1899 – 1943Jean Moulin (1899-1943)Died 8 July 1943, aged 44Jean Moulin was a French prefect whom Charles de Gaulle sent to unify the Resistance. He brought the movements together in the National Council of the Resistance. He was betrayed and arrested near Lyon, and died after torture by the Gestapo under Klaus Barbie.