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Ephemeris of June 3: What happened in the world on a day like today

On June 3, but in 1994, USA begins the evacuation of its troops established in the Panama Canal in compliance with the agreement signed in 1977, an operation that culminated on December 31, 1999.

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Other ephemeris

1863.- An earthquake demolishes the cathedral of Manila and the members of the council perish in the catastrophe.

1937.- The former King of England Edward VIII marries the American Wallis Simpson in France.

1944.- Second World War. The Provisional Government of the French Republic is constituted.

1948.- The President of Uruguay, Higinio Moriñigo, is forced to resign. Juan Manuel Frutos temporarily assumes the presidency until the inauguration of Natalicio González.

1961.- US President John Kennedy and the first Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev meet in Vienna for the first time.

1965.- Proclamation of a new Constitution in Honduras.

1965.- American astronaut Edward White performs the second spacewalk in history after that of Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov on March 18.

1974.- Isaac Rabin is elected Prime Minister of Israel.

1979.- The Ixtoc I oil well bursts in the Gulf of Mexico, causing the largest oil spill into the sea to date.

1981.- The Spanish writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán is awarded the International Prize for Police Literature of France.

1982.- Lieutenant General Jaime Milans del Bosch and Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Tejero are sentenced to 30 years for the attempted coup on February 23, 1981 in Spain.

1987.- Argentina approves the divorce law, despite the opposition of the Catholic Church.

1991.- The eruption of the Unzen volcano, in Japan, causes the death of 43 people.

1992.- The Earth Summit begins in Rio de Janeiro, with the presence of more than 100 heads of State and Government.

1997.- The Colombian poet Álvaro Mutis wins the VI Reina Sofía Prize for Ibero-American Poetry.

1999.- The Spanish portal of the US economic daily Wall Street Journal on the Internet is presented in Miami (USA).

1999.- The Spaniard Javier Solana is appointed first Representative of the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union, Mr. “PESC”.

2006.- The Parliament of Montenegro proclaims its independence from the state union it formed with Serbia, after ratifying the results of the referendum held on May 21.

2009.- The General Assembly of the Organization of American States, with the favorable position of the United States, agrees to repeal the suspension of Cuba approved in 1962.

2010.- Britain imposes record fine of 40 million euros on JP Morgan bank for failing to protect clients’ money.

2012.- The 152 passengers of a plane and seven other people on the ground die when the aircraft crashes into a building in Lagos, the capital of Nigeria.

2016.- The Venezuelan government accuses the National Assembly before the Supreme Court of wanting to carry out a coup d’état and requests its protection.

2017.- The Brazilian Public Ministry requests prison for former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for “passive corruption”.

2017.- 8 people die and 48 are injured in the British capital in a terrorist attack in the London Bridge area.

2018.- The explosion of the Fuego volcano causes at least 84 deaths and a large number of missing people in Guatemala.

2021.- The Belarusian journalist Román Protasévich, kidnapped while flying over his country, accused himself before the Belarusian TV of the charges of which the Government of Aleksandr Lukashenko accuses him.

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births

1770.- Manuel Belgrano, Argentine soldier and patriot.

1865.- George V, King of England.

1898.- Rosa Chacel, Spanish writer.

1906.- Joséphine Baker, French singer, actress and dancer.

1922.- Alain Resnais, French filmmaker.

1925.- Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz), American actor.

1926.- Allen Ginsberg, poet representing the Beat generation and American writer.

1931.- Raúl Castro, Cuban soldier, politician and former head of state.

1986.- Rafael Nadal, tennis player.

deaths

1548.- Juan de Zumárraga, first archbishop of Mexico.

1875.- George Bizet, French musician.

1899.- Johan Strauss, Austrian composer.

1924.- Franz Kafka, Czechoslovakian writer.

1925.- Camille Flammarion, French astronomer.

1963.- John XXIII, Pope.

1977.- Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director.

1989.- Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian spiritual leader.

2001.- Anthony Quinn, American actor of Mexican origin.

2009.- David Carradine, American actor.

2014.- Virginia Luque, Argentine tango singer and actress.

2016.- Mohamed Ali (Cassius Clay), American boxer.

2017.- Diego David Domínguez González, “David Delfín”, Spanish designer.

2018.- Miguel Obando y Bravo, Nicaraguan cardinal emeritus.

2020.- Héctor Ortega Gómez, Mexican actor, film director and screenwriter.

2021.- Rubén Aprile, Argentine music producer.

2021.- F. Lee Bailey, American lawyer and writer.

2022.- Lautaro Coronel, “El Noba”, Argentine singer.

2022.- Ann Turner Cook, American novelist and model.

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Source: Elcomercio

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