Ephemeris of May 12: What happened in the world on a day like today?

In other May 12but in 1987, in a hospital in Baltimore (USA), the first double transplant operation was carried out: the heart of a living 28-year-old man was grafted onto another heart patient and the donor received the lung and heart of a traffic accident victim.

OTHER EVENTS

1551.- The University of San Marcos is foundedof Limeconsidered the oldest in South America.

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1622.- The main church of Buenos Aires It is erected into a cathedral.

1664.- It opens in versailles he “tartuffe“, of moliere.

1881.- Signing of the Bardo Treatywhich establishes the French protectorate in Tunisia.

1926.- The marshal jozef pilsudski give a coup in Poland.

1934.- It is officially instituted National anthem of Paraguayan.

1937.- George VI is crowned King of England. The ceremony was televised, in what was the first broadcast outside of a studio.

1965.- The Federal Republic of Germany and Israel establish diplomatic relations.

1982.- The Spanish fundamentalist priest Juan Fernandez Krohn attempted unsuccessfully against John Paul IIin fatima (Portugal).

1989.- the brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts.

1991.- the liberal congress party wins majority in first multi-party elections held in 32 years in Nepal.

1999.- He Caro and Cuervo Institute of Colombia is awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities.

2002.- The former president of USA Jimmy Carter begins a visit to Cubabeing the first US head of state, within or outside of his term, to visit the island since the Cuban revolution (1959).

2003.- 59 people die and another 200 are injured in a suicide bombing in Chechnyaagainst the seat of the Government of zanameskoe.

2008.- A 7.8 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale causes more than 87,000 deaths in the province of Sichuan (China).

2009.- Benedict XVI asks for reconciliation and peace when officiating the first outdoor mass in the history of Jerusalem.

.- USA is elected, for the first time, a member of the Human Rights Council of the UN.

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2013.- Mexico celebrates the canonization of the nun María Guadalupe García Zavalaknown as Mother Lupitawho faced the religious persecution of his country’s revolutionary period.

2017.- A global cyber attack puts computer systems in 150 countries at risk. He British Health Servicethe French multinational Renault and the Russian banking system, among the affected services.

2019.- After having succeeded in the Oscarthe Bafta and the Goyathe Ibero-American film industry exalts “Rome”, from the Mexican Alfonso Cuaronwith five Platinum Awardsincluding that of best film and best director.

2020.- America exceeds Europe and becomes the region with the most cases of COVID-19according to WHO.

BIRTHS

1803.- LiebigGerman chemist, discoverer of chloroform.

1842.- Jules MassenetFrench composer of operas.

1907.- Katherine HepburnAmerican actress.

1936.- Guillermo Endaraformer president of Panama.

1978.- Malin AkermannSwedish actress, model and singer.

DEATHS

1884.- Federico SmetanaCzech composer.

1957.- Erich von StroheimAustrian actor and film director.

1992.- Nikos GatsoGreek poet.

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1994.- erik eriksonpioneer of psychoanalysis, American.

2001.- Alexei TupolevRussian aircraft designer.

2003.- The Aga Khan SadruddinFrench diplomat.

Source: Elcomercio

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