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EVENTS INCLUDE THE MURDER OF A FRENCH HIKER BY TERRORISTS, THE BIRTH OF MAURICE JARRE AND MUTINY ON THE SS FRANCE SEPTEMBER 2014 French hiker beheaded in Algeria Hervé Gourdel, a 55-year-old

mountain guide from Nice, was abducted and killed by a jihadist group linked to Islamic State (IS) militants while on holiday in Algeria.  Jund al-Khilafa had given France a deadline to

halt air strikes on IS in Iraq, after which they had threatened to behead the hostage. Then-French President Francois Hollande condemned the killing as a "cruel and cowardly" act.

News of Mr Gourdel’s murder hit France hard, not least because he was a tourist in a region popular with French holidaymakers – Djurdjura National Park in northern Algeria.  RARE IMAGES SHOW

HOW NEWSPAPERS REPORTED LIBERATION OF PARIS IN AUGUST 1944 He was also the first French victim of IS’s high-profile campaign to use Western hostages as political pawns.  The group had

already beheaded three since August: US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and the British aid worker David Haines. Like Gourdel, their deaths were all filmed and posted online.

SEPTEMBER 1974 Crew mutiny on SS France The SS France, one of the last great trans-Atlantic ocean liners, was taken over by crew on September 12, 1974 in a desperate bid to stop it being

withdrawn from service. Despite an illustrious career – Salvador Dali and the Mona Lisa were among high-profile names it had carried – rising oil prices and the expansion of the cruise

market increasingly punched a hole in profits.  When the French government refused to provide further subsidies, furious crew members commandeered the ship in the entrance to Le Havre port,

blocking all traffic.  The 1,200 passengers aboard had to be ferried to shore on tenders the next day, but the strikers themselves held out for over a month before admitting defeat. France

was bought by Norwegian Cruise Line in 1979, extensively modified and renamed SS Norway.  A boiler explosion in 2003 seriously damaged the ship and killed eight crew members. It was

eventually scrapped in 2008. Read more: French team build faithful replica of William the Conqueror’s warship SEPTEMBER 1924 Movie composer Jarre born Maurice Jarre, the composer behind

scores for Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and Ghost, among countless others, was born on September 13, 1924 in Lyon. He was best known for his collaboration with director David Lean,

working on all of his films between 1962 and 1984. For three of these – Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and A Passage to India – he won Academy Awards. Doctor Zhivago also earned him

chart success when Somewhere My Love (to his tune Lara's Theme) was performed by the Mike Sammes Singers and reached Number 14 in 1966.  Jarre initially enrolled in engineering school

but switched to the Conservatoire de Paris to study composition and harmony against his father’s will. He recorded his first film score in France in 1951. Jarre was married four times

including, in the 1940s, to a French Resistance member and concentration camp survivor, with whom he had a son, Jean-Michel Jarre, a pioneer in electronic music. Maurice died of cancer in

2009 in Los Angeles, aged 84.