Ephemeris of May 29: What happened in the world on a day like today?

A May 29but in 1953, the New Zealander Edmund P. Hillary became the first man to ascend to the summit of Everest (8,850 meters), accompanied by the Sherpa Tensing Norgay.

OTHER EVENTS

1453.- take of constantinople by the Turks, which puts an end to the Byzantine Empire.

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1856.- Inauguration of the telegraph line between Caracas and La Guairathe first one that worked in Venezuela.

1914.- 1,021 people of the 1,477 who traveled on the ocean liner die “Empress of Ireland”, which sank after colliding with the Norwegian freighter “storstad” in the estuary st lawrence river of Canada.

1934.- USA and Cuba sign a treaty that includes the abolition of platt amendment and total independence to the island.

1969.- bursts into Cordova (Argentina) a worker-student agitation movement, known as the “cordobazo”, which caused the death of 14 people.

1970.- Former Argentine President Pedro Eugenio Aramburu is kidnapped and later assassinated by a group that is first known as the “montoneros”.

1978.- More than 35 indigenous people die K’ekchía riddled by the Guatemalan army and local landowners when they demonstrated peacefully in the town square of panzos in protest against the forced expropriation of their lands.

1985.- 39 people die and another 117 are injured in the heysel stadium of Brussels during an avalanche caused by English fans before starting the match of the Final of the European Cup football, who won the Juventus to the Liverpool.

2005.- Nearly two million participants in the Gay Pride Parade of sao paulo require the government to approve a same-sex marriage law.

2014.- The Justice of Ecuador condemns the former president Jamil Mahuad to 12 years in prison for embezzlement of public funds.

2015.- Cuba officially leaves the list of sponsors of the terrorism that annually elaborates USA

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2020.- The US President, donald trumpannounces that his country breaks its relationship with the WHO by management of COVID-19.

2021.- Canada finds remains of hundreds of indigenous children in a school residence in the town of kamloopswhere they were forcibly interned for 80 years.

BIRTHS

1829.- Fernando Montes de OcaMexican hero.

1860.- Isaac AlbenizSpanish composer and pianist.

1894.- Joseph von SternbergAustrian-born American filmmaker.

1903.- Bob HopeAmerican comedic actor.

1917.- John F. KennedyPresident of the USA.

1944.- Helmut BergerAustrian actor.

1958.- Annette BeningAmerican actress.

1959.- Rupert EverettBritish actor.

1982.- Ana Beatriz BarrosBrazilian model.

DEATHS

1942.- john barrymoreAmerican film actor.

1958.- Juan Ramon JimenezSpanish writer and Nobel Prize 1956.

1982.- Romy SchneiderAustrian film actress.

2003.- Arming FlamesSpanish-Argentine writer and playwright.

2010.- Dennis HopperAmerican actor.

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2012.- kaneto shindoJapanese film director and screenwriter.

2017.- Manuel Antonio NoriegaPanamanian dictator.

2021.- BJ ThomasAmerican singer.

Source: Elcomercio

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