Ephemeris of January 3: What happened in the world on a day like today?

On January 3, but in 1962, the Cuban leader Fidel Castro is excommunicated by Pope John XXIII after declaring himself a Marxist-Leninist and announcing that he would lead Cuba to communism, in his historic speech of December 2, 1961, in addition to showing his manifest hostility towards the Catholic religion with the expulsion of 131 priests and the closure of religious schools.

OTHER EVENTS

1521.- Pope Leo X excommunicates Luther.

1749.- It is published for the first time, in Copenhagen, the newspaper “Berlingske Tidende”, doyen of the world daily press.

1833.- The Malvinas Islands are occupied by British forces that evict the population and the Argentine authorities established there.

SIGHT: Russia confirms the death of 63 of its soldiers in a Ukrainian attack with HIMARS missiles in Makiivka

1857.- Archbishop of Paris, Monsignor Sibour, assassinated with a stab wound to the heartwhile officiating at a church.

1870.- In New York begins the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.

1871.- the american chemist Henry Bradley patents margarine.

1911.- The US orders the withdrawal of its troops from Nicaragua and recognizes the new Government headed by Juan José Estrada, who, through the “Dawson Accords”, turned his country into a North American dependency.

1925.- Benito Mussolini outlaws opposition partieswhich leaves the Fascist Party as the only one in Italy.

1929.- The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Foundation is integrated into the Rockefeller Foundationwhich thus becomes the most powerful philanthropic organization in the world.

1934.- In Osek (North Bohemia), a mining disaster leaves 144 dead.

1939.- The EFE Agency is created in Burgos.

1944.- More than 500 people die when a passenger train collides with a locomotive in a tunnel, at the exit of the Torre del Bierzo station in Leon, in the biggest Spanish railway disaster.

1949.- A tornado causes 59 deaths in Arkansas and Louisiana (USA).

1959.- Alaska becomes the 49th US state.

1961.- The United States breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba.

1979.- Signature of four agreements between the Spanish State and the Holy Seewhich replace the Concordat of 1953.

1987.- Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman to enter the Rock Hall of Fame and Roll from the United States.

1990.- The general Manuel Antonio Noriega surrenders to the United States troops that had invaded Panama on December 20, 1989 and left the country for Miami (USA).

1992.- The United States officially establishes diplomatic relations with Russia.

1993.- The presidents of the United States and Russia, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the START II treaty in the Kremlin. to reduce nuclear arsenals.

1994.- 125 people die when a Tupolev-154 plane crashes in Irkutsk (Siberia).

1999.- NASA launches the “Mars Polar Lander” probe into space bound for Mars.

2000.- The daily Charlie Brown comic strip is fired, published for 50 years in more than 3,000 newspapers in 75 countries.

2004.- 148 people, most of them French tourists, die when the Boeing 737 plunges into the Red Sea Egyptian in which they were traveling.

2009.- The bitcoin cryptocurrency is born.

2016.- the opponent Henry Ramos Allup is elected president of the National Assembly of Venezuela.

2018.- North Korea reopens communication with the South, cut for two years.

2019.- The Chinese probe Chang’e 4 lands successfully on the far side of the Moon.

2020.- The United States kills the Iranian general Qasem Soleimaniin a drone strike at the Baghdad airport.

BIRTHS

1840.- José de VeusterFather Damien, Belgian missionary.

1892.- JRR Tolkien, South African-born British writer.

1897.- Marion DaviesAmerican actress.

1920.- Renato CarosoneItalian singer.

1928.- José LladróSpanish ceramist and businessman.

1929.- Sergio LeoneItalian film director.

1946.-John Paul JonesBritish musician.

1951.- Rosa MonteroSpanish journalist and writer.

1956.- Mel GibsonAmerican actor.

1963.- Guillermo FarinasCuban dissident.

1969.- Michael SchumacherGerman Formula 1 driver.

2003.- Greta ThunbergSwedish activist.

DEATHS

1705.- Luca GiordanoItalian painter.

1927.- Carl RungeGerman mathematician and physicist.

2002.- Alfred Heineken, Dutch businessman of one of the world’s beer giants.

2003.- José María GironellaSpanish writer.

2005.- Will EisnerAmerican cartoonist.

2008.- Lisandro OteroCuban writer.

2013.- Patty Sheppard, American actress.

2016.- Paul BleyCanadian jazz pianist and composer.

2019.- Herbert KelleherAmerican businessman, founder of Southwest Airlines.

2021.- Enrique de RivasSpanish poet.

Source: Elcomercio

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