📅 1830. Birth of Mgr.Constant Mathurin Hillion:
Born in Vannes, France, he became the first bishop of Cap-Haïti and the third archbishop of
Port-au-Prince.
≡🔗 See: Catholic Church of Haiti: Deceased Bishops
📅 1934. Official celebration of the end of the American occupation:
With the departure of the last visible US Army units a week earlier,
the occupation, after 19 years, had virtually ended. The government of Sténio Vincent had
wanted to celebrate with a series of ceremonies and activities to mark the event, however, reserving
this day for the official festivities which began with a Te Deum.