Today’s ephemeris, June 17: What happened in the world on a day like today

On June 17, but in 1972, fifty years ago, the political scandal of the Watergate, after five men were arrested for trying to spy on the building of that name, headquarters of the Democratic Party in Washington. The following day it is published by The Washington Post without knowing the scope, but the case would end the presidency of Richard Nixon.

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

1821.- pass away Martin Miguel de Guemesone of the heroes of the independence of Argentina, a country that today celebrates the Day of Passage to Immortality of this general.

1866.- President Benito Juarez establishes his government in Chihuahua (Mexico).

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1885.- The Statue of Liberty arrives at the port of New York.

1911.- Nearly 50,000 suffragettes demonstrate in London to demand female vote.

1920.- The painter Sorolla He suffers from hemiplegia while painting in his studio in Madrid.

1928.- the american aviator Amelia Earthhartaccompanied by the pilot W. Stutz, crosses the Atlantic Ocean, the first woman to do so, a feat that she will achieve alone on May 20, 1932.

1939.- Last guillotined in public in France, the serial killer Eugen Weidmann.

1940.- World War II: Soviet troops dominate Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

1944.- Iceland becomes independent from Denmark.

1950.- First kidney transplant successfully in a hospital in Chicago (USA).

1953.- Workers’ uprising in Berlin Oriental against the government of the German Democratic Republic, with a balance of a hundred dead.

1961.- the russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev he runs out on the tarmac of La Bourget airport in Paris and avoids going back to Moscow.

1967.- China blows up its first test of hydrogen bomb.

1982.- The general Leopold Galtieri He resigned as head of the Army after Argentina’s defeat in the Malvinas War.

1983.- The Mexican Juan Rulfo wins the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters.

1985.- Mexico launches Morelos IIthe country’s first artificial satellite.

1991.- The Parliament of South Africa abolishes apartheid or system of racial segregation.

1992.- The American President, George Bushand that of Russia, Boris Yeltsinsign the historic Cooperation and Friendship Agreements on the reduction of their nuclear arsenals.

1994.- It adopts the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.

2001.- Seventy inmates star in a historic escape from the high-security prison in Escuintla (Guatemala), known as “Hell”. Five prisoners die.

– Simeon II wins the Bulgarian elections after 50 years of exile in Spain.

2008.- Norwaythe first Nordic country and sixth in the world to legalize Gay marriage.

2011.- The figure of the king of Morocco, Mohammed VIgoes from “sacred” to “inviolable”.

– Retired general arrested Rafael Lopez Fuentesaccused of genocide during the Guatemalan armed conflict (1960-1996).

2013 .– Monsoon rains in the India They leave in a week more than 800 dead and 2,000 disappeared.

2018.- Spain hosts in the port of Valencia the “Aquarius” with 629 immigrants on board after being rejected by Italy and Malta.

2018.- Lawyer Ivan Duke he is invested as president of Colombia.

2019.- Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard announces the detention of almost 800 migrants hidden in truckswithin the new immigration control plan agreed with the United States.

– Felipe VI receives the Order of the Garterhighest British distinction.

2020.- Remove the statues Christopher Columbus and Queen Elizabeth in the rotunda of the California Capitol (United States).

2021.- US President Joe Biden declares on June 19, known as “juneteenth”, a national holiday to commemorate the end of slavery.

– The west coast of the United States suffers heat wave with temperatures over 50 degrees.

BIRTHS

1882.- Igor StravinskyRussian musician.

1914.- Julian Marias, Spanish philosopher and essayist.

1936.- Ken LoachBritish filmmaker.

1942.- Mohamed El Baradei, Egyptian politician, Nobel Peace Prize winner.

1943.- Barry ManilowAmerican singer.

1947.- Paul YoungBritish singer.

1973.- Paulina RubioMexican singer.

1980.- Venus WilliamsAmerican tennis player.

DEATHS

1905.- Maximo Gomez, Cuban independence hero.

1986.- Kate Smith, American singer.

2007.- Gianfranco Ferré, Italian dressmaker.

2008.- Cyd Charisse, American dancer and actress.

2009.-Ralf DahrendorfBritish-German sociologist and politician.

2015.- Suleiman Demirelformer president of Turkey.

2019.- Mohamed Mursiformer president of Egypt.

2021.- Kenneth Kaunda, first president of Zambia.

Source: Elcomercio

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