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Ephemeris of May 11: What happened in the world on a day like today?

In a May 11but from 1544, part of Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz, southern Spain) the expedition of Francisco de Orellana, the first to explore the Amazon.

OTHER EVENTS

1801.- He Bullfighter “Pepe-Hillo” dies in Madrid caught by a bull.

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1873.- Cuban War. Ignacio Agramonte dies in the fields of Jimaguayú for the independence of his country.

1911.- French aviator and aircraft builder Edouard Nieuport achieves the speed record in the airOn reaching 120 kilometers per hour.

1927.- In California (USA), the Hollywood Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

1941.- World War II. London suffers one of the harshest aerial bombardments by the Nazi Germany.

1944.- World War II: begins the Allied offensive in Italy.

1947.- Ferrari debuts with his first racing car, the 125 S, on the circuit of Piacenza (Italy).

1949.- The United Nations General Assembly admits to Israel as a member of the UN.

1952.- Jose Remon wins the presidential election Panama.

1960.- The israeli secret services kidnapped in Buenos Aires the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichman.

1981.- Costa Rica break diplomatic relations with Cuba.

1984.- Jose Napoleon Duarte is officially proclaimed president of The Savior.

1985.- 53 people die when a grandstand on the soccer field caught fire Bradford Cityin the north of England.

1992.- The general Fidel Ramos wins the presidential election Philippines.

nineteen ninety five.- The 178 signatory countries in the UN indefinitely extend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

nineteen ninety six.- Eight climbers of different nationalities die from a blizzard when they ascended the Everest. There were two other deaths in the following days.

1997.- The computer Deep Blue defeat the world champion Professional Chess Association (PCA), the Russian Garry Kasparovin 19 movements after a very serious error of this one.

1998.- India resumes its nuclear testsafter 25 years, with three explosions underground in the desert of Pokhran.

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2010.- 103 people die when a plane of the Libyan company crashed Afriqiyah Airways from johanesburg at the airport tripoli. Only a nine-year-old Dutch boy survived.

2018.- The italian justice lifts the political disqualification of the former Italian prime minister and leader of Forza Italy, Silvio Berlusconi.

.- Argentina requests a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in an attempt to stop the fall of the peso, which means renewing relations with an organization that in the past closed its doors to the South American country after granting it a loan during the deep crisis that the country suffered in 2001.

2019.- Convened by activists LGBTIIt is held in Havana the first unauthorized demonstration to take place in Cuba in decades.

2022.- Avianca and GOL create the Abra GroupLatin American giant of airlines.

BIRTHS

1888.- Irving BerlinAmerican composer.

1904.- Salvador DaliSpanish painter.

1916.- Camilo Jose CelaSpanish writer, Nobel Prize 1989.

1928.- Marco Ferrerifilm director, Italian.

1932.- Valentino Garavanivalentine”, Italian designer.

.- Francis ThresholdSpanish writer.

1978.- laeticia castaFrench model and actress.

1984.- Andres IniestaSpanish footballer.

DEATHS

1881.- Henri Frederic AmielSwiss writer.

1927.- John Gray (Victorian Gonzalez), Spanish painter.

1946.- Pedro Henriquez UrenaDominican writer.

1960.- John D Rockefeller Jr.American industrialist, heir to his famous father.

1981.- Bob MarleyJamaican musician.

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1988.- Harold PhilbyAnglo-Soviet spy.

2002.- Joseph BonanoJoe Bananas”, American mob boss.

2003.- Jose Manuel Lara HernandezSpanish businessman, founder of the Spanish publishing house Planeta.

Source: Elcomercio

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