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When France Said 'Non' to Britain Joining Europe

When France stopped Britain joining Europe, the record for staying awake, the first iPhone, a post-war friendship between Britain and Germany, and a notorious Algerian massacre.

When France stopped Britain joining Europe in the 1960s, the boy who set a record for continuously staying awake, the launch of the first iPhone, hands reaching out in friendship between Britain and Germany after the Second World War, and a notorious massacre during Algeria's bitter internal conflict of the 1990s.

Photo: Charles de Gaulle, President of France, at a press conference on 14th January 1963 at which he said Britain was not ready to join the European Economic Community, now the EU (Credit: Central Press/Getty Images)

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Sun 14 Jan 2018 23:06GMT

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