Today’s ephemeris, June 28: What happened in the world on a day like today?

On June 28, 1969, clashes between police and gay patrons at the Stonewall Inn bar in New York prompted the international birth of the gay rights movement.

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1519.- Charles I of Spaina, grandson of the Catholic Monarchs, elected Holy Roman Emperor as Charles V.

1762.- Catherine the Great, crowned as Tsarina of all the Russias.

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1838.- coronation of Victory I from United Kingdom.

1841.- Ballet premieres in ParisGiselle”.

1886.- Inauguration of canadian pacific railwaybetween Montreal and Port Moof (Pacific coast).

1880.- Cuban War. The so-called “Small War” ends after the surrender of the Cuban caudillo Límbano Sánchez.

1902.- The US Congress approves the “law Spooner”, which authorizes the president to buy the Panama Canal concession for 40 million dollars.

1914.- Murdered in Sarajevo the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wifetriggering the First World War.

1919.- Signature of Versailles Peace Treatyend of the First World War (1914-18).

1958.- Pele he wins the World Cup in Sweden with Brazil.

1964.- Malcolm X creates the Organization of Afro-American Unity in the US.

1968.- Violent demonstrations in the main cities of Argentina on the occasion of the General Onganía’s coup d’état.

1969.- Clashes between the Police and the gay clientele of the bar “Stonewall Inn”, of New York, promote the international birth of the movement for the rights of homosexuals.

1974.- Tragedy of Quebrada Blanca in Colombia: 300 dead in landslides on a highway.

1985.- The Argentine President Raul AlfonsinPrince of Asturias Award for Ibero-American Cooperation.

1992.- Chile: ruling centre-left coalition wins elections first municipal elections in the country after the military dictatorship.

1993.- Guatemala recognizes the independence of Belizeformer British colony.

1994.- the mexican banker Alfred Harpreleased after 106 days of kidnapping and the payment of a ransom of about 30 million dollars.

1997.– Found the remains of the guerrilla Ernest “Che” Guevara and six other guerrillas in a mass grave on the landing strip of the Bolivian town of Vallegrande.

1997.- The boxer Mike Tyson is disqualified for ripping off a piece of the boxer’s ear Evander Holyfield.

2000.- The raft boy Elian Gonzalez He returns to Cuba with his father, after spending seven months in the US and starting a legal, family and political battle for his custody.

2001.- The Colombian guerrilla of the FARC releases 242 soldiers and policemen in La Macarena, a neutral area in the south, some of whom had been held captive for more than three years in the jungle.

2001.- former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevicdelivered to the Court of The Hague.

2003.- Mexico extradites to Spain the Argentine ex-military Ricardo Cavalloaccused of genocide and terrorism during the dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983).

2004.- The former Peruvian presidential adviser Vladimir Montesinossentenced to 15 years in prison for bribery, conspiracy and corruption.

2004.- Iraq recover its sovereignty.

2009.- The Honduran Parliament removes the president Manuel Zelayaarrested and deported to Costa Rica.

2011.- the french minister Christine Lagardeelected managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

2011.- Google+, Google’s social network, is born.

2016.- The leader of the British Labor Party, Jeremy Corbynhe loses the motion of confidence to which his group submitted him.

2020.- The “Rolling Stones” they warn the US president, Donald Trump, with a lawsuit if he uses their songs.

2021.- Mexico decriminalizes recreational use of marijuana but not its marketing.

BIRTHS:

1712.- Jean-Jacques RousseauSwiss writer and philosopher.

1867.- Luigi Pirandello, Italian playwright, Nobel Prize for Literature.

1906.- Maria Goeppert-MayerGerman-born physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1963.

1926.- Mel Brooks, American actor, producer and filmmaker.

1930.- Itamar Francoformer Brazilian president.

1940.- Muhammad YunusBangladeshi, creator of the “bank of the poor”, Nobel Peace Prize.

1941.- Clifford Luykformer Spanish basketball player and coach.

1948.- Kathy Bates, American actress.

1966.- John Cusack, American actor.

1968.- Chayanne, Puerto Rican singer.

1971.- Elon Musk, engineer, co-founder of Paypal and Tesla.

1973.- Alberto Berasategui, Spanish tennis player.

1993.- Bradley Beal, American basketball player.

1994.- Hussein bin Al Abdalaeldest son of King Abdullah of Jordan and heir to the throne.

DEATHS:

1930.- Benlliure, Spanish sculptor.

2007.- Kiichi Miyazawa, Japanese Prime Minister.

2017.- Eduardo Delgado, head of Cuban intelligence.

– Jorge Ruben Rosas, Panamanian politician.

2021.- Ana Maria Jimenez (Mona Jiménez), Peruvian journalist.

– Sergio Victor PalmaArgentine former boxer.

Source: Elcomercio

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