Ephemeris of March 23: What happened in the world on a day like today?

In a 23 of Marchbut from 1983, 40 years ago, Barney Clark, the first human being to live with an artificial heart, died 112 days after receiving the transplant.

OTHER EVENTS

1508.- Capitulations of Fernando el Católico with Juan Díaz de Solís and Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, by which they agree to seek a strait between the Atlantic and the Pacific.

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1863.- French troops favorable to the enthronement of Emperor Maximilian in Mexico attack the city of Puebla.

1902.- Italy raises the legal age for work: from 9 to 12 years for boys and from 11 to 15 for girls.

1907.- Nicaragua defeats the alliance of El Salvador and Honduras.

1909.- A fire destroys the Mexican Chamber of Deputies.

1919.- Mussolini founds the “Fasci di combattimento” (combat fascio) in Milan.

1933.- The Reichstag passes a law giving full power to the Hitler government.

1956.- Pakistan proclaims itself an Islamic Republic.

1959.- Günther Grass publishes the novel “The Tin Drum”.

1965.- NASA launches the Gemini 3 spacecraft with two crew members on board. It was the first manned flight of the Gemini project.

.- The National Assembly of Honduras declares Oswaldo López Arellano constitutional president.

1971.- The Argentine president, Roberto M. Levingston, resigns his position and the Board of Commanders assumes power.

1982.- A coup led by General Efraín Ríos Montt overthrows Guatemalan President Romeo Lucas.

1983.- United States President Ronald Reagan announces the Strategic Defense Initiative, an anti-missile shield from space popularly known as “Star Wars.”

1989.- The right to strike is legalized in Hungary, the second ex-communist country to do so after Poland.

1994.- Luis Donaldo Colosio, PRI candidate for the presidency of Mexico, assassinated.

1998.- Russian President Boris Yeltsin dismisses the government en bloc and names Sergei Kirienko Prime Minister.

2000.- The complete sequence of the vinegar fly genome, the most complex known to date, has been revealed.

2001.- Russia sinks the Mir space station in the Pacific, after fifteen years in orbit.

2003.- “Talk to her” by Pedro Almodóvar gets the first Oscar for best original screenplay won by a Spanish film.

2006.- Argentine President Néstor Kirchner restores the military rank to Colonel Jaime Cesio who had been demoted by the Military Junta for denouncing disappearances during the dictatorship.

2010.- Mexico and the US agree to strengthen security cooperation against organized crime and expand the Merida Initiative.

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2013.- For the first time in the history of the Church, a full-powered pope, Francis I, and another emeritus, Benedict XVI, meet.

2021.- The Panamanian-flagged container ship Ever Given runs aground in the Suez Canal, causing its obstruction and the collapse of international trade.

BIRTHS

1749.- Pierre-Simon LaplaceFrench savant.

1814.- Gertrudis Gomez de AvellanedaSpanish poet.

1887.- Juan Gris, pseudonym of José GonzálezSpanish painter.

1900.- Erich FrommGerman-American psychoanalyst.

1903.- Alejandro CasonaSpanish playwright.

1910.- Akira KurosawaJapanese film director.

1931.- Viktor KorchnoySoviet chess master.

1937.- robert galloAmerican physician, co-discoverer of the AIDS virus.

1942.- michael hanekeAustrian filmmaker.

1944.- michael nymanBritish composer and pianist.

[1945- Franco BattiatoItalian singer-songwriter.

1963.- Ana Fidelia QuirotCuban athlete.

1990.- Eugenia of Yorkdaughter of the Dukes of York, granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II of England.

DEATHS

1842.- Henri Beyle“Stendhal”, French writer.

1849.- Andres Manuel del RioMexican mineralogist.

1942.- Marcelo T. de AlvearArgentine politician.

1948.- Alberto GhiraldoArgentine writer.

1972.- Christopher Balenciaga EizaguirreSpanish fashion designer.

1992.- Friedrich von HayekBritish of Austrian origin, father of economic neoliberalism, Nobel Prize in Economics 1974.

1993.- Werner RichterGerman writer.

1994.- Giulietta MasinaItalian actress.

1999.- Luis Maria ArganaParaguayan politician.

2001.- David McTaggart Freserfounder of Greenpeace.

– william hannaAmerican cartoonist.

2006.- Wilfredo “Pio” LeivaCuban singer.

2009.- Carlos Semprun Maurawriter and historian.

2011.- elizabeth taylorAnglo-American actress born in the United Kingdom to American parents.

2018.- Nicanor ParraChilean poet.

– Ursula K. LeGuinAmerican writer.

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2020.- Lucia Bose, Italian actress married to the bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín. She worked with directors like Michelangelo Antonioni, Luis Buñuel and Juan Antonio Bardem.

2021.- George SegalAmerican actor, 87 years old.

2022.- madeleine albrightAmerican politician, first female US Secretary of State

Source: Elcomercio

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