1930. Blessing of the Pétion-Ville road – Kenscoff:
Second stretch of road to be asphalted after the one connecting the capital, Port-au-
Prince, in Pétion-Ville. The Archbishop-coadjutor, Msgr. Joseph Leguaze presided over the
blessing.
1958. First plot against President François Duvalier:
The plot was discovered following a premature bomb explosion.
artisanal in Mahottière near Carrefour, then a suburb of Port-au-Prince. The
Conspirators, including Yves Bajeux and Frank Léonard, were immediately arrested. Duvalier,
who had been invested six months earlier, took the opportunity to part with
some of his enemies, supporters of the unfortunate candidate Louis Déjoie.
1961. Parliamentary elections:
Without any presidential elections being planned, the name of François Duvalier
appeared on all the ballots, and a few days later, he would be declared re-elected.
1963. An OAS mission is welcomed by a huge crowd mobilized by the
government of François Duvalier:
A fact-finding mission from the Organization of American States (OAS) arrives in Portau-Prince, following the violation of the Dominican Republic’s embassy by the
Haitian government troops.
The mission is welcomed by thousands of people who sing, dance and
drunk at the tafia. There are 30 to 40,000 of them according to some witnesses, 100,000 according to the
official press and 150,000 in Duvalier’s memoirs.
2004. Resolution establishing the United Nations Stabilization Mission in
Haiti (MINUSTAH):
Following the precipitate departure of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the UN took on a role of
foreground in Haiti.
Already on the evening of February 29, the United Nations Security Council had
unanimously adopted a resolution authorizing the immediate deployment of a
Interim Multinational Force (MIF). On this day, the same Council approved, at
unanimity, a new Resolution (1542) establishing, from 1 June, the
United Nations Mission for