Ephemeris of December 23: this happened in the world on a day like today

On December 23, 1888, the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cuts his left ear with a blade after an argument with Paul Gaugin.

OTHER EVENTS

1753.- The New Coliseum is inaugurated in Mexicolater Main Theater.

1906.- Award of the King of Spain, Alfonso XIII, by which the border dispute between Honduras and Nicaragua is resolveduntil 1912.

SIGHT: AMLO criticizes the role of the US in the crisis in Peru: “There are suspicions because they don’t even take care of the forms”

1909.- Albert I is crowned King of Belgium.

1910.- Ramón Barros Luco assumes the presidency of Chile.

1915.- In Chile, Juan Luis Sanfuentes assumes as President of the Republic.

1920.- Arturo Alessandri begins his presidential mandate in Chile.

1922.- BBC Radio begins to broadcast its daily newscasts.

1930.- american actress Bette Davis begins her career in Hollywood with a contract from the production company Universal Studios.

1947.- Successfully displayed at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, the transistor operation.

1948.- World premiere at the Royal Opera House in London of the ballet “Cinderella” Choreographed by Frederick Ashton.

– The National Bank of Cuba is created by law as the central bank of the State, with organic autonomy, independent legal personality and its own assets.

1970.- The Bolivian government releases the French writer Régis Debraywho fought alongside Ernesto Che Guevara in a failed attempt to organize a peasant revolt in 1967.

1972.- Several earthquakes of great intensity destroy the Nicaraguan capitalManagua, and leave more than 10,000 dead.

1975.-The People’s Revolutionary Army (ERP) attacks an arsenal battalion of the Argentine Army in the Buenos Aires town of Monte Chingolo. 6 soldiers and 85 guerrillas died.

1985.- The Medina of Marrakech is declared a universal heritage.

1986.- The Nobel Peace Prize and “father” of the hydrogen bomb, Andrei Sakharov, exiled in Gorki, returns to Moscow after authorization by the Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev.

1990.- Slovenia votes in favor of the gradual separation of the Yugoslav Federation.

1995.- A place where a school party was held in the Indian city of Dabwali caught fire and 530 people diedmostly minor.

1997.- Sony launches in Japan PlayStation’s best-selling video game: Gran Turismo.

2002.- The US court orders Microsoft to include the Java programming language on your Windows operating system.

– “March of the Torches”, in which the anti-Chavistas walk from seven different points of Caracaswhile the general strike continues with serious effects on the Venezuelan oil industry.

2004.- First municipal elections in the West Bank since 1976prelude to the 2005 presidential elections.

2005.- the korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk resigns after Seoul National University confirmed that he tampered with the data of the alleged cloning of human embryos.

2008.-The Army of Guinea Conakry dissolves the Government for the death (the day before) of President Lansana Conté, in power since 1984.

2014.- Ukraine renounces its status as a non-aligned state to join NATO.

2019.- Saudi Arabia sentences five people to death for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggiat the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, but acquits the main defendants.

– The Argentine Justice revokes the preventive detention order on Vice President Cristina Kirchner, for the signing in 2013 of a memorandum of understanding between the nation and Iran.

2021.- An ALS patient from Australia, the first human being to write a tweet on his computer just by thinking about it and without using his limbsthanks to a non-invasive brain implant.

– The white police officer from Brooklyn Center (USA) who killed the young black man Daunte Wright in April was found guilty of all charges with his pistol, allegedly by mistake when he wanted to immobilize him with his electroshock weapon.

BIRTHS

245 AD.-Queen Zenobia from Palmyra (Syria)

1790.- Jean-Francois ChampollionFrench Egyptologist.

1881.- Juan Ramón JiménezSpanish poet, Nobel Prize 1956.

1887.- Victorio MachoSpanish sculptor.

1896.- Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaItalian writer author of The Leopard.

1898.- Rafael RivellesSpanish actor.

1910.- María de las Mercedes de Bourbon and OrleansCountess of Barcelona.

1916.- Dino RissiItalian film director.

1918.- Helmut SchmidtGerman former chancellor.

1933.- Akihitoformer emperor of Japan.

1934.- Luis Gómez-AceboSpanish aristocrat husband of the Infanta Pilar.

1943.- Silvia SommerlathQueen of Sweden.

1950.- Vicente del BosqueSpanish soccer coach.

1967.- Carla BruniItalian-French former model and singer.

1982.- Beatriz LuengoSpanish singer and actress.

DEATHS

1972.- Andrei TupolevRussian aircraft designer and builder.

1979.- Peggy GuggenheimAmerican collector and patron.

1996.- María Cristina de Bourbon and BattembergInfanta of Spain.

1998.- Jorge VieiraPortuguese sculptor.

2005.- Miguel Fleta Pierreopera singer and teacher (son of the famous tenor of the same name).

2006.-Robert Fabreleader of French left-wing radicalism in the 1970s.

2007.-Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist.

2009.- Ike Aharonovitchcaptain of the ship ‘Exodus’ that transported thousands of Jews to Palestine.

2010.- Jose PastorSpanish photographer.

2013.- Mikhail Kalashnikovfather of the legendary AK-47 rifle.

2019.- Ahmed Gaïd SalahGeneral of the Algerian Army.

2021.- Joan DidionAmerican writer.

Source: Elcomercio

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