
1953:
Millionth twenty-five visitor, ho receives a car.
1962:
.Edith Piaf sings on the Tower during the official
reception for the movie launching “The longest
day “of D. Zanuck.
.In August, President Dwight Eisenhower goes for a
walk on it with his wife and his grandchildren.
1963:
In September the first cosmonaut Youri Gagarine invited
in France by the General de Gaulle, who does a informal
walk
1964:
In May the Tower’s seventy-fifth birthday. Maurice
Chevalier as well as 74 other Parisians born in 1889
celebrate their birthday on the monument.
1966:
Charles Aznavour and Georges Brassens sing on the
Tower on the occasion of the launching of the world
campaign against the hunger.
1968:
the Prime Minister George Pompidou participates in
a lunch of the ministerial press.
1970:
Valery Giscard d'Estaing receives on the Tower an
African delegation.
1983:
Mireille Mathieu is a stewardess for the Tower’s
millionth hundred visitor. In June, Alexis Weissenberg
gives on the 1st floor a piano recital.
1985:
.In June, Radjiv Gandhi and François Mitterrand
participate from the Tower Eiffel for the MELA spectacle
on the occasion of India year in France.
.In September, three American astronauts of the Discovery
shuttle (D.Brandenstein, J.O.Creighton and L. Shamon),
official guests of France, visit the Eiffel Tower.
1993:
Hundred millionth fifty visitor
