Ephemeris of January 2: This happened in the world on a day like today

On January 2, 1969, some 30,000 copies of the album “Two Virgins”, by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, are confiscated at the Nawark airport (New Jersey, United States) on the grounds that the photograph on the cover (in which both appeared naked) was pornographic material.

OTHER EVENTS

1492.- After ten years of war, the Catholic Monarchs enter Granadaconquered from the Arabs.

1814.- The Representative Assembly of Venezuela grants Simón Bolívar absolute powers.

SIGHT: “Nothing was normal”: the “disconcerting” welcome to the New Year in Vladimir Putin’s Russia

1839.- The French Louis Daguerre takes the first photograph (daguerreotype) of the Moon.

1843.- The opera “The Flying Dutchman”, by Richard Wagner, premieres in Dresden (Germany).

1912.- Inauguration in Germany of the new neon gas lighting.

1926.- For the first time in Spain, spoken newspapers are broadcast on the radiocalled “The word”.

1931.- First Panamanian revolutionary movement. The President of the Republic, Florencio Arosamena, is deposed and replaced by Harmodio Arias.

1942.- World War II: the Japanese enter Manila.

1949.- Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected governor in Puerto Rico.

1955.- The president of Panama, José Antonio Remón, was shot dead.

1959.- Fidel Castro seizes power in Cuba. The troops commanded by Camilo Cienfuegos and Ernesto “Che” Guevara enter Havana.

– The Soviet Union launches Luna-1, the first space probe bound for the Moon.

1971.- 66 people die in Glasgow (Scotland, United Kingdom) when a railing of the “Celtic” stadium gives way due to the pressure of the spectators.

1974.- The president of United States, Richard Nixon signs a law limiting speed to 55 miles per hourin order to save gasoline during the OPEC embargo.

1984.- The Court of Justice of the Andean Community begins to function in Quito.

2002.- the peronist Eduardo Duhalde assumes the Presidency of Argentina and becomes the fifth president in 13 days.

2003.- In Paris, French police disrupt an escape plan for six ETA members from La Santé prison.

2004.- Colombian guerrilla Ricardo Palmera arrested in Ecuadoraka “Simón Trinidad”.

2008.- Two Médecins Sans Frontières aid workers released in Somalia (a Spanish doctor and an Argentine nurse), after a week of kidnapping.

2011.- The new anti-smoking law enters into force in Spainwhich prohibits smoking in closed public establishments and some open spaces.

2014.- The rescue of the 52 passengers of the Russian ship “Akadémik Shokálskiy” concludestrapped in Antarctic ice since December.

2016.- Murdered the mayoress of the Mexican municipality of Temixco, Gisela Motaone day after taking office.

– Saudi Arabia executes Shiite cleric and leader Nimr Baqir al Nimr.

2018.- 53 people die in Peru when a bus falls off a cliff.

2020.- Interpol orders the arrest of the former president of Nissan Motor, Carlos Ghosnfled from Japan to Lebanon.

BIRTHS

1837.- Mill BalakirevRussian composer.

1873.- Therese of LisieuxCarmelite nun and French saint.

1882.- César Rodríguez GonzálezSpanish businessman, founder and first president of El Corte Inglés.

1886.- Florence LawrenceCanadian inventor and actress.

1920.- Isaac AsimovRussian writer popularizing scientific issues.

1936.-Roger MillerAmerican singer and songwriter.

1940.- Srinivasa VaradhanIndian-American mathematician.

1947.- Elsa BaezaSpanish singer born in Cuba.

1968.- Cuba Gooding Jr.., American actor.

1970.- Jaime RosalesSpanish film director.

1983.- Kate BosworthAmerican actress.

DEATHS

1948.- Vicente García HuidobroChilean poet.

1953.- Guccio Gucci, Italian dressmaker.

1984.- Sebastián Juan ArbóSpanish writer.

1995.- Manuel Rivera HernandezSpanish painter.

1997.- Joan CorominesSpanish philologist and writer.

1999.- Margot CottensUruguayan actress living in Spain.

2000.- Patrick O’BrianBritish writer and translator.

2006.- Fernell FrancoColombian photographer.

2009.- Inge ChristensenDanish writer.

2017.-John BergerBritish historian and writer.

2018.- Rick HallAmerican music producer.

-Thomas MonsonAmerican Mormon leader.

2020.- John BaldessariAmerican conceptual artist.

2022.- Richard LeakeyKenyan paleoanthropologist and politician.

Source: Elcomercio

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