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  • France
    Wednesday Jul 1, 1925
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle worked "pen officer"

    France
    Wednesday Jul 1, 1925

    From 1 July 1925, he worked for Pétain (as part of the Maison Pétain), largely as a "pen officer" (ghostwriter). De Gaulle disapproved of Pétain's decision to take command in Morocco in 1925 (he was later known to remark that "Marshal Pétain was a great man.




  • Lewiston, Idaho,U.S.
    Monday Jul 13, 1925
    Walt Disney

    Marriage

    Lewiston, Idaho,U.S.
    Monday Jul 13, 1925

    Disney married Lillian Bounds in July 1925, at her brother's house in her hometown of Lewiston, Idaho. The marriage was generally happy, according to Lillian, although according to Disney's biographer Neal Gabler she did not "accept Walt's decisions meekly or his status unquestionably, and she admitted that he was always telling people 'how henpecked he is'." Lillian had little interest in films or the Hollywood social scene and she was, in the words of the historian Steven Watts, "content with household management and providing support for her husband".




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