1909. Birth in Léogane of Max Gédéon:
Lawyer and writer, Max Gédéon published the following novels: Le portefeuille (1934),
differential diagnostics and the rangets.
1957. Resignation of the provisional president Némours Pierre-Louis:
President of Haiti following the departure of Paul Eugène Magloire. He was the president of
the Court of Cassation.
Subject of criticism from certain political leaders who accused him of perpetuating the
regime of Paul Eugène Magloire by keeping in their posts the men who
were part of or delayed the investigation in its level of corruption. A strike
General then paralyzed the country during the last days and his cabinet abandoned him
on February 1st.