Ephemeris of October 23: What happened in the world on a day like today
On an October 23, but 2002, 20 years ago, a Chechen commando takes hostage more than 800 people in the Dubrovka Theater in Moscow. The
On an October 23, but 2002, 20 years ago, a Chechen commando takes hostage more than 800 people in the Dubrovka Theater in Moscow. The
On October 22, 1962, the president of USAJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy, announces the blockade of Cuba by the US Navy until the USSR removes the missiles
On October 21, but in 1982, the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, is distinguished with the Nobel Prize for Literature. Other anniversaries: 1805.- Battle of
On October 20, but in 1883, the Treaty of Ancón was signed, near Lima, which put an end to Peru’s participation in the War of
On another October 19, but from 1960, the United States partially embargoes exports to Cuba, except medicines and food. The commercial blockade of the island
On a day like today, but in 2012, the Government of Colombia and the FARC guerrillas constitute the table for peace negotiations in Norway. OTHER
On October 17, 1933, Albert Einstein escaped from Nazi Germany and arrived in the United States as a refugee. Other anniversaries: 1815.- Napoleon arrives in
On October 16, 1846, William Thomas Morton, a Boston physician, first used ether as an anesthetic, beginning painless surgery. OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS: 1793.- French Revolution: Queen
On October 15, but in 1940, the premiere in New York of the film “The Great Dictator”, a satire on Nazism, starring Charles Chaplin. Other
On October 14, but in 1962, the missile crisis begins, after an American spy plane photographed and discovered Russian missile ramps in Cuba. OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
On October 11, but in 1968, a coup d’état takes place in Panama led by General Omar Torrijos, who overthrows President Arnulfo Arias and initiates
On October 13, but in 1813, Mercedes Abregó is executed in Cúcuta (Colombia) for helping the patriots who were fighting for independence from Spain. She
On October 12, but in 1492, 530 years ago, a Spanish expedition, led by Admiral Christopher Columbus by order of the Catholic Monarchs, arrived for
On a July 7, but 2021, a year ago, the president of Haiti, Jovenel Moiseis assassinated by an armed command made up of 48 people,
Peru commemorates this Wednesday the day of the Teacher; However, worldwide, many people wait for this July 6 to celebrate together the International Day of
On July 6, but in 1885, Louis Pasteur successfully tested his rabies vaccine in humans for the first time by inoculating it into a child
On July 5, but in 2012, ten years ago, the Argentine justice sentenced General Jorge Rafael Videla to 50 years in prison for the systematic
On July 4, but in 1776, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia unanimously approved the declaration of independence of the 13 Colonies of the North American
On another July 3, but in 1978, the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (TCA) was signed in Brasilia between Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and
On July 2, but in 2008, the Colombian Army rescued the former presidential candidate Ingrid Bentancourtkidnapped by the FARC guerrilla in 2002, and 14 other