 On 22 April all flights and landings were forbidden in Parisian airfields, and an order was given to the Army to resist the coup "by all means".The following day, President Charles de Gaulle made a famous speech on television, dressed in his World War II uniform (he was seventy years old and long since a civilian head of state) ordering the French people and military to help him.The majority of the French people had voted in favor of Algerian self-determination during the disputed referendum of 8 January 1961 organised in metropolitan France.