Ephemeris of July 8: What happened in the world on a day like today?

On July 8, but 2022, a year ago, the former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe is assassinated in the middle of the street during an electoral act by a former member of the Japanese Army who shot him with a domestically manufactured weapon and who later confessed to holding a grudge against him for his alleged ties to the religious organization Unification Church, also known as the ” Moon sect”.

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Other ephemeris

1497.- A small fleet under the command of Vasco de Gama sets sail from Lisbon with the mission of finding a way to India, rounding the Cape of Good Hope, then the limit of European navigation. He arrives in Calcutta the following May.

1538.- Diego de Almagro, conqueror of Chile, dies executed in Cuzco (Peru), by order of Hernando Pizarro.

1580.- The Spanish squadron of Álvaro de Bazán y Guzmán departs from Cádiz to support the land action of the Duke of Alba, Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, for the conquest of Portugal.

1808.- The Statute of Bayonne is promulgated, which provides that “the Spains and the Indies will be governed by a single code of civil and criminal laws.”

1833.- Treaty of Unkiar-Skelessi, which stipulates the Russian protectorate of Turkey for eight years and the opening of the Dardanelles Strait.

1835.- President José María Vargas is deposed in Venezuela in the Reform Revolution, started in Maracaibo by General Santiago Marino. It was deactivated by General José Antonio Páez, and Vargas regains power.

1839.- The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador decrees the election of the Honduran Francisco Morazán as head of State, with the title of Benemérito de la Patria, until that year president of the extinct Federal Republic of Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica ).

1853.- An American squadron of four ships under the command of Commodore Matthew Perry enters Tokyo Bay and forces the Japanese to open their borders and markets to the United States.

1889.- The newspaper “The Wall Street Journal” begins to be published in New York, with information on the stock market.

1893.- The United Kingdom and Mexico sign the Treaty of Limits, which establishes the border between the Aztec country and Belize, then a colony of British Honduras.

1905.- The rebel crew of the Russian battleship “Potemkin” surrenders to the Romanian authorities in the port of Costanza.

1969.- The US begins the withdrawal of its troops from Vietnam. The first contingent to leave was the 9th Infantry Division and the withdrawal ended in 1972.

1978.- The socialist Sandro Pertini, elected president of the Italian Republic.

1981.- The Nicaraguan guerrilla leader Edén Pastora, “Commander Zero”, resigns from his posts and announces his return to the fight, this time against his former FSLN comrades, whom he accuses of establishing a communist dictatorship.

1986.- Former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim is sworn in as Austria’s president, after winning the June elections in which his past as a German Army officer in World War II comes to light.

1989.- The Peronist Carlos Saúl Menem, winner of the May elections, assumes the Presidency of the Argentine Republic.

1994.- Discovery at the Gran Dolina site, in Atapuerca (Burgos; Spain), of hominid remains of “Homo antecessor”.

2002.- The African Union (AU) is born in Durban (South Africa), inspired by the European Union as a pan-African organization that replaces the Organization for African Unity (OAU).

2003.- The 29-year-old Iranian conjoined twins Laleh and Ladan Bijani, joined at the head and trunk, died in the intervention to separate them at Raffles Hospital (Singapore).

2006.- Benedict XVI makes his first official trip to Spain to attend the V World Meeting of Families in Valencia.

2017.- The Venezuelan opponent Leopoldo López, imprisoned since 2014, is released from prison and is placed under house arrest.

2021.- Former South African President Jacob Zuma surrenders to the Police after being sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt. There were more than 200 deaths in protests over the detention.

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births

1621.- Jean de la Fontaine, French poet and fabulist.

1831.- John S. Pemberton, American inventor of Coca-Cola.

1838.- Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German inventor of the airship.

1839.- John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist.

1877.- Efrén Rebolledo, Mexican poet and diplomat.

1919.- Walter Scheel, President of the Federal Republic of Germany.

1921.- Edgar Morin, French sociologist and essayist.

1951.- Anjelica Huston, American actress and film director.

1956.- Carlos Herrera, Spanish journalist.

1958.- Kevin Bacon, American actor.

deaths

1956.- Giovanni Papini, Italian essayist and writer.

1984.- Claudio Sánchez Albornoz, Spanish historian.

1986.- Hyman Rickover, creator of the US nuclear weapon.

1987.- Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet.

1994.- Kim Il-Sung, President of North Korea.

2012.- Ernest Borgnine, American actor.

2018.- Carlo Vanzina, Italian film director.

2022.- Luis Echeverría Álvarez, former president of Mexico (1970-76).

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Source: Elcomercio

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