Ephemeris of today, July 4: This happened in the world on a day like today

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 Union.

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

1811.- First session of Chilean Congressmeeting in Santiago.

1870.- The Regent of Spain, Francis Serranosigns the law that gradually declares black slaves free in Cuba.

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1904.- The general Rafael Reyes Prieto he is proclaimed president of Colombia in the final recount of the vote of the Great Electoral Council, in which the also conservative general Joaquín Fernando Vélez is imposed by a narrow margin.

1910.- Russo-Japanese agreement Japan lets Russia act in Manchuria and the Russians refrain from the Japanese invasion of Korea.

1919.- The Peruvian President Jose Pardo y Barrera, is overthrown by a coup d’état in the final stretch of his mandate and after the holding of elections. He is provisionally replaced by Augusto B. Leguía.

1941.- Josio Broz Tito organizes the partisan resistance in Yugoslavia against the invading Nazi Germany.

1946.- The Philippines proclaims its independence from the United States.

1971.- The German Michael Hart, inventor of the electronic book, begins his free electronic book library project on the net “Project Gutenberg” with the digitization of the US Declaration of Independence.

1976.- the PRI Jose Lopez Portillo wins the presidential elections in Mexico, with 91.9% of the votes, as the only candidate of the PRI coalition, the socialists of the PPS and the Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution (PARM).

1979.- The Algerian Government of Chadli Benjedid release former president Ahmed Ben Bellawho ruled the first three years after independence and had been imprisoned since 1965.

1982.- The Dominican President Silvestre Antonio Guzmancommits suicide in the National Palace days before the end of his term.

– Miguel of the Madridcandidate of the PRI, PPS and PARM coalition, wins the presidential elections in Mexico, with 70.9% of the votes.

1989.- Inaugural session of the two chambers of the new Polish ParliamentCongress of Deputies and Senate.

1991.- The National Constituent Assembly of Colombia enacts a new Constitution, which replaces the 1986 one.

– Spain and Morocco sign in Rabat the Treaty of Friendship, Good Neighborhood and Cooperation between both countries

1992.- The Prince of Asturias, Felipe de Borbón, chairs in New York the naval concentration commemorating the V Centenary of the Discovery of America.

1997.- The unmanned shipMars Pathfinder” lands on Mars and offers the first images of its planet’s surface after a space journey of 500 million kilometers.

1999.- The Algerian President, Abdelaziz Bouteflikapardons 3,343 Islamist prisoners without blood crimes before Parliament debates the Law of Civil Concord for National Reconciliation.

2001.- Judge George Urso processes and dictates preventive detention against the former Argentine president Carlos Menem for considering him the head of an “illicit association” that illegally sold weapons to Ecuador and Croatia.

2002.- Augusto Pinochet resigns his seat as senator for life after his “dementia” was described as “incurable” by the Chilean Supreme Court and he was dismissed from charges of human rights violations in the “Caravan of Death” case (1973).

2012.- The European Center for Particle Physics announces the discovery of the “Higgs’ Boson”, one of the pillars of the Standard Model of modern physics.

2014.- The Russian Parliament ratifies the cancellation of 90% of Cuba’s debt with the former Soviet Unionabout 31,700 million dollars, and defers the remaining 3,500 million to 10 years.

2017.- North Korea successfully launches its first intercontinental missile from North Pyongan province, which runs approximately 930 kilometers.

2021.- Elisa Loncónan indigenous Mapuche, is elected president of the constitutional convention that will write the new Constitution of Chile.

BIRTHS

1804.- Nathaniel HawthorneAmerican writer, author of “The Scarlet Letter”.

1807.- Giuseppe Garibaldihero of the Italian unity.

1917.- Manuel Rodriguez Sanchez“manolete”, Spanish bullfighter.

1926.- Alfredo Di StéfanoSpanish-Argentine footballer.

1927.- Gina LollobrigidaItalian actress.

1937.- Sonia Haraldsen, queen of norway

1952.- Álvaro Uribeformer president of Colombia.

DEATHS

1541.- Pedro de AlvaradoSpanish conquistador.

1826.-Thomas Jefferson, drafter of the US Declaration of Independence and third president of the country.

1826.- John Adamssecond president of the United States.

1934.- Marie Curiephysicist of Polish origin, twice Nobel Prize, in Physics and in Chemistry.

1992.- Astor PiazzolaArgentine tango composer.

2003.- Barry WhiteAmerican singer.

2008.- Jesse Helmsformer US senator.

Source: Elcomercio

Ronald Payne

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