Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Paul-Henri Spaak across 4 places, from 1899 to 1972.
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Paul-Henri Charles Spaak (25 January 1899 – 31 July 1972) was an influential Belgian Socialist politician, diplomat, and statesman who thrice served as the prime minister of Belgium and later as the second secretary general of NATO.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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25 January 1899exact date
Schaerbeekattested“Paul-Henri Spaak was born on 25 January 1899 in Schaerbeek, Belgium into the prominent Spaak-Janson family.”source: Wikipedia: Paul-Henri Spaak
1914year
Germanyattested“During the German invasion of Belgium in 1914, Spaak attempted to join the Belgian Army but was captured and spent the next two years as a prisoner of war in Germany.”source: Wikipedia: Paul-Henri Spaak
31 July 1972exact date
Braine-l'Alleudattested“Spaak died aged 73, of kidney failure on 31 July 1972, in his home in Braine-l'Alleud near Brussels, and was buried in Braine-l'Alleud.”source: Wikipedia: Paul-Henri Spaak
31 July 1972exact date
Brusselsattested“Spaak died aged 73, of kidney failure on 31 July 1972, in his home in Braine-l'Alleud near Brussels, and was buried in Braine-l'Alleud.”source: Wikipedia: Paul-Henri Spaak
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1908year
New Yorkmentioned“During the 1940s, during his time in New York with the United Nations, he also had an affair with the American fashion designer Pauline Fairfax Potter (1908–1976).”source: Wikipedia: Paul-Henri Spaak
1938year
Belgiummentioned“In 1938, he allowed Herman Van Breda to smuggle the legacy of Edmund Husserl out of Nazi Germany to Belgium through the Belgian Embassy in Berlin.”source: Wikipedia: Paul-Henri Spaak
1938year
Berlinmentioned“In 1938, he allowed Herman Van Breda to smuggle the legacy of Edmund Husserl out of Nazi Germany to Belgium through the Belgian Embassy in Berlin.”source: Wikipedia: Paul-Henri Spaak
25 August 1938exact date
Antwerpmentioned“An Order of 25 August 1938 prohibited the use of so-called motor spirit "for greasing, cleaning (hands) etc.," while a Royal Order of 27 August 1938 fixed normal weekly hours of actual work in the ship-repairing industry in Antwerp at 42…”source: Wikipedia: Paul-Henri Spaak
October 1940month
Londonmentioned“Travelling in difficult circumstances with Pierlot through Spain and Portugal, partially even in the false bottom of a truck, they arrived in London in October 1940.”source: Wikipedia: Paul-Henri Spaak
October 1940month
Francoist Spainmentioned“Travelling in difficult circumstances with Pierlot through Spain and Portugal, partially even in the false bottom of a truck, they arrived in London in October 1940.”source: Wikipedia: Paul-Henri Spaak
1943year
Saint-Gilles Prisonmentioned“In 1943 Malevez was arrested by the Gestapo as a member of a resistance movement and imprisoned for a few weeks in Saint-Gilles Prison in Brussels.”source: Wikipedia: Paul-Henri Spaak
1943year
Brusselsmentioned“In 1943 Malevez was arrested by the Gestapo as a member of a resistance movement and imprisoned for a few weeks in Saint-Gilles Prison in Brussels.”source: Wikipedia: Paul-Henri Spaak
1948year
Parismentioned“During the third session of the UN General Assembly in 1948 in Paris, Spaak apostrophized the delegation of the Soviet Union with the famous words: "peur de vous" (fear of you).”source: Wikipedia: Paul-Henri Spaak
1948year
The Haguementioned“In 1948 he helped organize a Congress that met in The Hague and pressed hard for the creation of the Council of Europe.”source: Wikipedia: Paul-Henri Spaak
25 March 1957exact date
Castle of the Valley of the Duchessmentioned“The so-called "Spaak Report " formed the cornerstone of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom at Val Duchesse in 1956 and led to the signature, on 25 March 1957, of the Treaties of Rome establishing a European…”source: Wikipedia: Paul-Henri Spaak
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