Ephemeris of January 23: This happened in the world on a day like today

On January 23, but in 1958, a military coup overthrew the dictatorship of President Marcos Pérez Jiménez in Venezuela. Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal accedes to the Presidency.

Other ephemeris:

1826.- The fortified port of El Callao (Peru) surrenders, last redoubt of the Spanish resistance in continental America.

1896.- german physicist Wilhelm Roentgen makes his first demonstration of X-rays in front of the Wurzburg Medical Physical Society. He had discovered X-rays by chance on November 8, 1895.

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1904.- The Norwegian port city of Alesund was destroyed by fire.

1950.- The Israeli Parliament declares Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

1954.- The writer Ernest Hemingway survives two plane crashes that occurred on consecutive days. The first, on January 23, on a flight from Nairobi to the Congo, and the second, the next day when he took another plane that exploded on takeoff.

1960.- The Swiss Jacques Piccard, together with the American Don Walsh, and aboard the bathyscaphe Trieste, reaches the record depth of 10,911 metersin the Marianas Trench.

1994.- La Chinita massacre: a commando of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) breaks into a festival in the La Chinita neighborhood, in the town of Apartadó (department of Antioquia) and murders 35 people.

2003.- The Ivory Coast is attacked by the regular Liberian Army and asks France for help.

2004.- The World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) 4,500 million dollars of debt to Nicaragua are forgiven.

2006.- Forty-six people die in a railway accident in Montenegronear Podgorica.

2012.- Inauguration of the first Egyptian Parliament after the Mubarak erawith 70% of the seats in Islamist hands.

2014.- The government of South Sudan and the rebels sign a ceasefire agreement in Addis Ababa.

2019.- The president of the Venezuelan Parliament, Juan Guaidó, proclaims himself interim president of the country.

2020.- China confines the city of Wuhan (11 million inhabitants) in the first coronavirus confinement in the world.

BIRTHS

1783.- Henri BeyleStendhal, French writer.

1832.-Edouard ManetFrench impressionist painter.

1918.- Gertrude ElionAmerican biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1988.

1921.- Marija GimbutasLithuanian-born American archaeologist.

1928.- Jeanne MoreauFrench actress.

1930.- Derek Walcottpoet born on the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia, Nobel Prize for Literature 1992.

1947.- Megawati SukarnoputriFormer President of Indonesia.

1950.- Luis Alberto SpinettaArgentine musician.

1954.- Franco de Vita, Venezuelan singer-songwriter.

1955.- Ramon LoboSpanish journalist.

1957.- Carolina GrimaldiPrincess of Monaco.

1962.- Elvira LindoSpanish writer and journalist, creator of the literary character “Manolito Gafotas”.

1967.- Magdalena Anderssonformer Prime Minister of Sweden.

1969.- Ariadna Gil, Spanish actress.

1971.- Beatriz Domínguez-Gil, Spanish doctor, director of the National Transplant Organization (ONT).

1989.- April PearsonBritish actress.

DEATHS

1516.- Ferdinand the CatholicKing of Spain.

1648.- Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish playwright.

1744.- Giambattista VicoItalian philosopher.

1883.- Paul-Gustave DoréFrench painter and engraver.

1928.- Maria GuerreroSpanish actress.

1931.-Anna PavlovaRussian dancer.

1944.- Edvard MunchNorwegian painter.

1947.- Pierre BonnardFrench painter.

1989.- Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist painter.

2004.- Helmut NewtonGerman photographer.

2007.- Ryszard KapuscinskiPolish journalist and writer.

2010.- Earl WildAmerican pianist.

2015.- Abdullah bin AbdelazizKing of Saudi Arabia.

2017.- Bimba Bose (Eleonora Salvatore)Spanish model, actress and singer.

2018.- Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet.

2019.- Caio Junqueira, brazilian actor.

2020.- Jim LehrerAmerican journalist.

2021.- Larry KingAmerican television presenter.

2022.- Jean-Claude MézièresFrench comic book artist.

Source: Elcomercio

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