Ephemeris of October 11: This happened in the world on a day like today

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 a military dictatorship that would last 21 years.

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

1698.- France, England and Holland sign in The Hague the first Partition Treaty on the territories of Spain when Carlos II ‘the Bewitched’ died without descendants (in the end his nephew Felipe V would succeed him).

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1737.- A hurricane devastates the city of Calcutta (India) and causes 300,000 victims in one of the deadliest natural disasters of all time.

1745.- German clergyman and scientist Ewald Jurgen von Kleist presents the first electrical capacitor in history, the Leyden jar.

1833.- The revolt of “los Restauradores” breaks out in Buenos Aires. directed by the federals against the Government of Juan Ramón Balcarce.

1854.- Poet Adela Zamudio, pioneer of feminism in Bolivia, is bornso that on October 11 the Bolivian Women’s Day is celebrated.

1876.- the mexican general Porfirio Díaz revolts against President Sebastián Lerdo de Tejadawhich will happen a month later.

1887.- american inventor Dorr E. Felt patents the comptometer, first key-pressed mechanical calculator.

1899.- The Second Boer War begins.in the current territory of South Africa, between the British Empire and the settlers of Dutch origin.

1960.- Spain enters the atomic age by receiving the first 60 kilograms of enriched uranium from the US Atomic Energy Commission for research and experimentation.

1962.- John XXIII inaugurates the Second Vatican Councilwhich modernized the spirit and structures of the Catholic Church.

1984.- Kathryn Sullivan becomes the First American astronaut to perform extravehicular activity in space.

1990.- The Mexican Octavio Paz is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

nineteen ninety five.- The Mexican Mario Molina gets the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

2002.- Former US President Jimmy Carter is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his “vital contribution” to the Camp David agreement between Egypt and Israel (1978).

2011.- Former Prime Minister and Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko is sentenced to seven years in prison for abuse of power.

2018.- The AVE between the Saudi cities of Medina and Meccaawarded to a Spanish-Saudi consortium in which Renfe and Talgo participated, begins its commercialization.

2021.- The European Union extends the sanctions imposed on Nicaragua for another year because of the political and social crisis.

BIRTHS

1755.- Faust of ElhuyarSpanish chemist, discoverer of the metal tungsten.

1799.- Paula Montal FornesSpanish nun, founder of the Daughters of María Escolapias.

1866.- Carlos ArnichesSpanish writer and playwright.

1936.- Alberto Vázquez-FigueroaSpanish journalist and writer.

1937.-Bobby CharltonEnglish footballer.

1948.- CeciliaSpanish singer and songwriter.

1962.- Joan Cusack, American actress.

1965.- Luke PerryAmerican actor.

1966.- Pau DonésSpanish musician, singer of Jarabe de Palo.

1967.- HeviaSpanish bagpiper.

-Peter Andreas ThielGerman businessman, co-founder of PayPal.

1976.- Emily DeschanelAmerican actress.

1977.- Laura GallegoSpanish writer.

DEATHS

1896.-Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer.

1889.- James Prescott JouleEnglish physicist who created the theory of energy.

1963.- Jean CocteauFrench writer and filmmaker.

-Edith Piaf, French singer.

1982.- Josep RenauSpanish painter and poster artist.

2007.- Sri NimioHindu pacifist leader.

2011.- Cliff RobertsonAmerican actor.

2019.- Vicente LladróSpanish businessman, founder of the decorative porcelain firm.

– Alexei LeonovSoviet cosmonaut and first spacewalker.

2021.- Paddy MoloneyIrish musician.

Source: Elcomercio

Ronald Payne

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