Ephemeris of June 24: What happened in the world on a day like today?

On June 24, but in 1821, Venezuela seals its independence after the Battle of Carabobo, where South American patriots commanded by General Simon Bolivar They defeat the Spanish Army. June 24th is the Day of the Carabobo’s Battle.

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Other ephemeris

1509.- Catherine of Aragon, daughter of the Catholic Monarchs and first wife of Henry VIII, is crowned Queen of England.

1571.- Foundation of the city of Manila under the orders of the Spanish admiral Miguel López de Legazpi.

1717.- The first Masonic Grand Lodge is founded in England.

1823.- Formation of the Federation of United Provinces of Central America, with Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, with capital in Guatemala.

1859.- Battle of Solferino (Italy) with the defeat of the Austrians.

1865.- Spain recognizes El Salvador as an independent country.

1901.- Pablo Picasso exhibits for the first time at the “Ambroise Vollard” gallery in Paris.

1921.- Juan de la Cierva’s autogyro lifts off successfully at the Getafe aerodrome (Madrid).

1932.- Military coup in Siam (present-day Thailand), which ends the absolute monarchy.

1948.- Cold War: land blockade of West Berlin.

1950.- Inauguration of the Municipal Stadium of Rio de Janeiro, Maracana, with a Mexico-Brazil match for the fourth Soccer World Championship.

1960.- Joseph Kasavubu, appointed the first president of the independent Congo.

1960.- The Venezuelan president, Rómulo Betancourt, suffers an attack from which he is injured.

1965.- The OAS Council agrees to withdraw the inter-American peacekeeping forces from the Dominican Republic.

1969.- Agrarian reform enacted in Peru by Juan Velasco Alvarado.

1980.- The Spanish Congress approves the Organic Law of Religious Freedom.

1983.- The International Democratic Union (IDU) is founded in London, bringing together conservative, democratic and liberal parties.

1983.- Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is expelled from Damascus for “slander” against the Syrian regime.

1985.- Francesco Cossiga, elected president of Italy.

1989.- The general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Zhao Ziyang, has been dismissed.

2001.- The Andean countries sign the Carabobo Act, with advances in political and social integration, 32 years after the birth of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN).

2001.- Fujimori’s former adviser, the Peruvian Vladimiro Montesinos, has been arrested in Venezuela.

2005.- The social network Yahoo! 360º.

2007.- The businessman Mauricio Macri prevails in the mayoral elections of Buenos Aires.

2007.- Gordon Brown is proclaimed leader of the British Labor Party, replacing Tony Blair.

2010.- Julia Gillard, first woman to assume the Government of Australia.

2012.- Mohamad Mursi, of the Muslim Brotherhood, wins the Egyptian presidential elections.

2013.- Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is sentenced to seven years in prison for the Ruby case.

2016.- David Cameron resigns after the victory of “brexit”.

2018.- The head of state of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, wins the presidential elections.

2019.- The tightrope walker brothers Nik and Lijana Wallenda cross New York’s Times Square walking on a cable located some 25 stories high.

2021.- An apartment building in Surfside, Miami-Dade, collapses in the middle of the night, and the bodies of 98 people are found on the following days.

2021.- Spanish aid worker María Hernández from Doctors Without Borders is assassinated in Ethiopia.

2021.- They find in Israel a new unknown human species.

2022.- The Supreme Court ends the right to abortion in the United States.

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births

1542.- Juan de la Cruz, Carmelite saint and mystical poet.

1908.- Hugo Distler, German composer.

1911.- Ernesto Sábato, Argentine writer.

1911.- Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine motor racing driver.

1932.- Queta Claver, Spanish actress.

1932.- Antonio Chenel “Antoñete”, Spanish bullfighter.

1942.- Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, former president of Chile.

1948.- Armando Calderón, former president of El Salvador,

1978.- Juan Román Riquelme, Argentine soccer player.

1987.- Leo Messi, Argentine soccer player.

deaths

1519.- Lucrezia Borgia, Italian princess.

1908.- Grover Cleveland, former US President.

1935.- Carlos Gardel, Uruguayan singer and actor, legend of tango.

[1945- José Gutiérrez-Solana, Spanish painter and writer.

1960.- Rafael Zabaleta, Spanish painter.

1988.- Juan Manuel Díaz Caneja, Spanish painter.

1991.- Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter.

2000.- Juan José de la Cierva, Spanish inventor and engineer.

2000.- Rodrigo Alejandro Bueno, “Potro Rodrigo”, Argentine singer.

2001.- Manuel Soto Monje, “El Sordera”, Spanish singer.

2006.- Joaquín Jordá, Spanish film director.

2012.- “Lonesome George”, the last specimen of the giant Pinta tortoise (Chelonoidis abingdonii).

2014.- Eli Wallach, American actor.

2018.- David Goldblatt, South African photographer.

2021.- Benigno Aquino, former President of the Philippines.

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Source: Elcomercio

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