Ephemeris of December 15: This happened in the world on a day like today

On December 15, 1993, the 117 member countries of the Agreement on Customs Tariffs and Trade (GATT) unanimously approved, after seven years of multilateral negotiations, the final act of the Uruguay Round, a historic trade agreement.

OTHER EVENTS

1791.- The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution are adoptedwhich constitute the so-called “Bill of Rights” (Declaration of Rights).

1792.- French Revolution. King Louis XVI, prisoner of the revolutionaries, draws up his will in the Tower of Temple, from where he would go to the scaffold.

1812.- Bolívar’s manifesto in Cartagena (Colombia).

LOOK: ALBA meets in Cuba and denounces the “interference” against leftist governments in the region

1881.- The last section of the “Missouri Pacific” railway is finishedbetween Saint Louis (USA) and Mexico.

1916.- Inauguration in Buenos Aires of the current Stock Exchange building.

1918.- Assassination of the Portuguese president Sidonio Paes.

1927.- the american aviator Charles Lindbergh flies non-stop from Washington to Mexico in 26 hours.

1939.– The film “Gone with the Wind” premieres in Atlanta (United States)

1960.- King Baudouin of Belgium gets married with the Spanish Fabiola de Mora y Aragón.

1961.- Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death by a court in Jerusalem, after a trial in which he was accused of genocide against the Jewish race.

1972.- Brian May, guitarist for the British rock band Queen and an astrophysicist by training, published in the journal Nature the first article of his doctoral thesis based on interstellar dust.

1976.- Approved in referendum the Political Reform Lawwhich paved the way for democracy in Spain.

1982.- Opening of the Gibraltar gate for pedestriansafter 13 years of blockade.

1993.- The 117 member countries of the GATT unanimously approve, after seven years of multilateral negotiations, the final act of the Uruguay Round, a historic trade agreement.

1995.- The fifteen members of the European Union approve in Madrid the creation of the “euro”, the single European currency.

2000.- Ukraine officially closes the Chernobyl nuclear power plantcausing the greatest atomic catastrophe in history.

2001.- After almost twelve years closed, the Tower of Pisa reopens its access to the public after completing the works to ensure it cost around 30 million euros.

2003.- The Colombian authorities detain Wilmer Antonio Marín, alias “Hugo”head of the 22nd front of the FARC, a key man of that guerrilla in the center of the country.

2009.-Puerta de Hierro doctors perform the first double lung transplant worldwide in ex-vivo technique.

2011.- Jacques Chirac sentenced to two years in prison for a corruption case during his time as mayor of Paris, he became the first former French president to be convicted by an ordinary court.

2013.- Spain and France are connected by high-speed rail.

2015.- The Colombian Government and the FARC sign an agreement on the victims of the conflict.

2016.- The Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) sets money limits in national currency to leave and enter the country.

2019.- The Climate Summit concludes in Madridnumber 25 (COP25), without agreement on carbon markets.

2020.- The European Commission presents two laws on digital markets and services to limit the market-dominant abuse of large technology platforms.

2021.- Vaccination against covid-19 begins for children between 5 and 11 years of age.

2021.- The US offers million-dollar rewards for the children of the Mexican drug trafficker El Chapo Guzmán.

BIRTHS

1832.- Gustave EiffelFrench engineer.

1852.- Antoine Henri Becquerel, French physicist (Nobel Prize 1903).

1907.-Oscar Niemeyer, brazilian architect.

1944.- Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, “Boy Mendes”Brazilian environmental activist assassinated in 1988.

1949.-Don JohnsonAmerican actor.

1986.- Keylor NavasCosta Rican soccer player.

1995.- Jahlil OkaforAmerican basketball player.

DEATHS

1944.- Glenn MillerAmerican musician.

1962.-Charles Laughton, English actor.

1966.- Walt DisneyAmerican cartoonist and filmmaker.

2003.- Margarita AguirreChilean writer and critic.

2005.- Julian MariasSpanish philosopher, sociologist and writer.

2007.-Philip Ageeformer American CIA agent.

2008.- Leon Febres Cordero, Former President of Ecuador.

2010.- Blake EdwardsAmerican filmmaker.

2011.- Christopher Hitchens, British writer and journalist.

2013.- Joan FontaineAmerican actress.

2016.- Fran Pérez, Narfcomposer and musician.

2021.- Gloria Jean Watkinsknown as bell hooks, American feminist activist and writer.

Source: Elcomercio

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