November: In 1922 the location of Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt is discovered

In the same way, this month we remember that in 1947 the United Nations divided Palestine between Arabs and Jews and in 2002 the ‘Prestige’ sank causing an environmental catastrophe off the seas of Spain, among other ephemeris.

The discovery that dazzled the world

Some say that it was a little water boy who stumbled, that November 4, 1922, with the entrance steps to the famous tomb. Others that he was a member of the expedition led by the British archaeologist, Howard Carter, the one who found the thread of the skein that led them to the fascinating mortuary chamber of the young Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, near Luxor, in the Valley of the Kings. On the 24th, Carter reached the antechamber of the tomb’s heart and made a small hole to see what was inside. When Lord Carnarvonthe financier of the project, asked him what he observed, the archaeologist replied: “I see wonderful things.”

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The beginning of an endless conflict

The November 29, 1947the Assembly of the United Nations approved by two thirds of votes the partition plan for Palestine into two independent states: one Arab and the other Jewish. 33 nations voted in favor of this decision, 13 against and 10 abstained. The international organization also arranged for England to leave the territory before August 1, 1948. The Arabs rejected the plan, but the Jews founded the State of Israel on May 14, 1948. The next day the first war between Israelis and Arabs broke out.

The black sea caused by the ‘Prestige’

An approximate of 77 thousand tons of fuel were those that the ship ‘Prestige‘ poured on the Spanish coasts the November 13, 2002. When she was heading to Gibraltar, the boat sank and the oil affected some 745 beaches, most of the Galician coast. The tanker, flying the flag of the Bahamas, was hit by a storm that caused a crack in its hull. A few days later, numerous marine species appeared covered with fuel on the Spanish coast.

Demi Moore. (Photo: AFP Agency)

Other events of November

November 7: For the first time a robot called ‘robodoc‘ in a surgical procedure in California, United States. (1992)

November 8th: The South African doctor is born Christian Barnard, who performed the first heart transplant operation. (1922)

November 10: pass away Leonid BrezhnevGeneral Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. (1982)

November 11th: American actress is born Demi Moore, protagonist of the films ‘Ghost: The Shadow of Love’ and ‘An Indecent Proposal’, among others. (1962)

November 25: The film opens in the United StatesThe bodyguard‘, starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. (1992)

November 26: An all-time movie classic,’White House‘, is put on a giant screen for the first time in the United States. (1942)

November 27: The eminent American guitarist is born Jimi Hendrix. (1942)

Sinking of the ‘Prestige’. (Photo: AFP Agency)

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