Ephemeris of January 12: This happened in the world on a day like today

On January 12, 2010, an earthquake shakes Haiti and causes some 300,000 deaths.

Other ephemeris:

1807.- Part of the city of Leiden (The Netherlands) is destroyedby the explosion of a ship loaded with gunpowder.

1899.- The frigate Argentine school “President Sarmiento” undertakes his first circumnavigation trip.

LOOK: Putin dismisses the commander of Russian forces in Ukraine 3 months after his appointment

1909.- The Turkish Government accepts the Austrian proposal to renounce its rights over Bosnia-Herzegovina in exchange for financial compensation.

1936.- The Spanish-Cuban aviator Antonio Menéndez Peláez takes off from the Camagüey airport (Cuba) to make a solo transatlantic flight to Seville, where he arrived on February 14.

1969.- Led Zeppelin releases its first album.

nineteen eighty one.- is issued on first chapter of the television series “Dynasty”.

1988.- The world’s first “test tube” quintuplets are born in Michigan (USA).

nineteen ninety five.- The French President, Francois Mitterrand, inaugurates the largest musical complex in Europe in Paris, of 50,000 square meters of surface.

1998.- Nineteen European countries sign in Paris the protocol of the Council of Europe that prohibits the cloning of human beingsthe first international legal text on this matter.

1999.- american singer Britney Spears releases her first album “…Baby One More Time”.

2005.- The United States announces the end of the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

2006.- More than three hundred pilgrims die in Mecca for an avalanche.

2009.- The first transaction in the network of the digital currency bitcoin.

2015.- Cuba completes the release of 53 political prisonersagreed with the US

2016.- A suicide bomber from the Islamic State (IS) kills ten German tourists near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul (Turkey).

2017.- The US ends the “dry foot/wet foot” policy for Cubanswhich allowed them to obtain permanent residence within a year of arriving, even illegally.

BIRTHS

1628.-Charles PerraultFrench writer of children’s stories.

1746.- Johann Heinrich PestalozziSwiss pedagogue.

1893.- Hermann Goering, Nazi leader and war criminal.

1907.- Sergei KorolevUkrainian engineer, considered the father of the Soviet space program.

1916.- Pieter Wilhelm Bothaformer South African president.

1933.- Liliana CavaniItalian film director.

1949.- Haruki MurakamiJapanese writer.

1964.- Jeff BezosAmerican businessman, founder of Amazon.

1966.- Olivier MartinezFrench actor.

1968.- Mauro da Silva Gomes, former Brazilian soccer player

1972.- Quique DacostaSpanish cook.

1993.- Zayn MalikBritish singer.

1995.- Nathy PelusoArgentine singer.

1998.-Nathan Gamble, American actor.

DEATHS

1963.- Ramón Gómez de la SernaSpanish writer.

1976.- Agatha Christie, British writer of detective novels.

1991.- Vasco PratoliniItalian writer.

2002.- Cyrus Vance, American politician.

2003.- Leopoldo Galtieri, former dictator of Argentina.

2004.- Olga LadyzhenskayaRussian mathematics.

2008.- Angel GonzálezSpanish poet.

2009.- Claude BerriFrench filmmaker.

2015.- Juan José López-Ibor AliñoSpanish psychiatrist.

2017.- William Peter Blatty, American writer and screenwriter, author of “The Exorcist.”

2021.- Enrique Pineda Barnet, Cuban filmmaker.

2022.- Ronnie Spector, American singer, vocalist of the group The Ronettes.

Source: Elcomercio

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