Ephemeris of January 18: What happened in the world on a day like today?

On January 18, 2015, the Argentine prosecutor was found dead Alberto Nismanwho denounced President Cristina Fernández (2007-2015) and part of her government for using a trade agreement with Iran to cover up alleged terrorists involved in the 1994 attack against the AMIA mutual in Buenos Aires, which left 85 dead and whose authorship is attributed to the Hezbollah group and former senior Iranian officials.

OTHER EVENTS

1535.- Francisco Pizarro founds the city of Limawhich he then baptized as City of Kings.

1871.- Otto von Bismarck proclaims the German Empire.

1915.- The Endurance, the ship with which the Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton intended to cross Antarctica, gets trapped in ice in the Weddell Sea, where it remains ten months before sinking. After a long odyssey, the 28 crew members managed to survive.

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– Pancho Villa is proclaimed president of Mexico and assumes military and civil powers.

1919.- The Paris Peace Conference beginsin charge of settling the issues raised by the First World War (1914-1918).

1974.- Egypt and Israel sign the Separation of Forces Agreement ending hostilities between the two countries.

1986.- 88 people die when a plane crashes in Santa Elena (Guatemala).

1988.- Put down a military uprising in Argentina, headed by Lieutenant Colonel Aldo Rico.

1994.- Split of the Italian Christian Democracy in the Italian Popular Party (PPI) and the Christian Democratic Center (CCD).

1995.- The domain “yahoo.com”.

2002.- German multinational Bayer acknowledges the existence of a hundred deaths related to its drug against cholesterol Lipobay.

2003.- Thousands of people demonstrate all over the world against a war in Iraq.

2005.- The Airbus A380 is presented in Toulouse (France), the largest passenger plane in the world.

2009.- The “Cast Lead” operation, launched by the Israeli Army against Gaza, endsand in which 1,400 Palestinians died.

– The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) wins the legislative elections in El Salvador and it becomes the first political force in the country.

2010.- Ali Agca is released from prisonthe Turkish terrorist who attacked Pope John Paul II in 1981.

2012.- version of English Wikipedia Shuts Down in Protest of US Anti-Piracy Bill

2017.- A snow avalanche buried a hotel in Farindola (Italy), causing 29 deaths.

– More than 70 dead in a suicide attack perpetrated by Al Qaeda against a military base in Gao, in northern Mali.

2019.- A sabotaged pipeline exploits for the illegal intake of gasoline in Tlahuelilpan, Mexico, causing 135 deaths.

2020.- Buckingham Palace announces that Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, will lose their royal titles and they will receive no public funds starting in the spring.

BIRTHS

1867.- Ruben DarioNicaraguan poet.

1893.- Jorge GuillenSpanish poet.

1904.- Cary GrantBritish-born American actor.

1915.- Santiago Carrilloformer Spanish communist leader.

1937.-John HumeIrish politician, Nobel Peace Prize in 1998.

1938.-Anthony Giddens, British sociologist.

1940.- Iva Zanicchi, Italian singer.

[1945-JoséLuisPeralesSpanish singer and composer.

1955.- Fernando TruebaSpanish film director.

-Kevin CostnerAmerican actor.

1960.- Mark RylanceBritish actor, theater director and playwright.

1967.- Ivan ZamoranoChilean former soccer player.

1980.- Jason SegelAmerican actor.

DEATHS

1906.- Bartholomew MiterArgentine general and politician.

1936.- Rudyard KiplingBritish writer, Nobel Literature.

1978.- Nicanor PinoleSpanish painter.

2016.- Michel TournierFrench writer.

-Glenn FreyAmerican musician, founder and guitarist of Eagles.

2019.- Marcelo YukaBrazilian musician and composer.

2021.- Juan Carlos TabíoCuban filmmaker.

2022.- André Leon TalleyAmerican fashion editor.

Source: Elcomercio

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