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Ephemeris of July 11: What happened in the world on a day like today?

In a July 11, but in 1995, 8,000 people were murdered, most of them men, in Srebrenica, a Bosnian town with a Muslim majority that fell into the hands of Bosnian Serb troops under the command of General Ratko Mladic. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) sentenced Mladic to life imprisonment for his responsibility in the massacre, deemed genocide, and for other war crimes.

OTHER EVENTS

1533.- Clement VII excommunicate the King Henry VIII of Englandafter invalidating his marriage with Catherine of Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn and break up with Rome.

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1893.- Jose Santos Celaya tops the liberal revolution that brings him to power in Nicaragua after the arrest of the president Salvador Machado.

1917.- William II implants in Prussia universal suffrage, by direct and secret ballot.

1924.- He norwegian government change the name of the capital Christiania for the of Oslo.

1935.- The Constituent Assembly of Guatemala extends the mandate for six years of the president, general Jorge Ubico.

1936.- He german reich recognizes the complete independence of Austria.

1940.- The French National Assembly gives full powers to the marshal Philippe Petain and fixed vichy as the seat of government and parliament.

1952.- Almost nine hundred allied planes bomb Pyongyangcapital of North Koreaand other supply centers and a railway line.

1954.- The boss of the Paraguayan Army, alfredo stroesnerwins the presidential elections and leads a dictatorship until 1989.

1957.- He Aga Khan IV he becomes the imam of the Ismaili Muslims.

1962.- First broadcast via satellite from the telstar 1with the transmission of an American flag from Androverin Maine (USA), to Pleumeur-Bodou (France).

1971.- He Chilean National Congress approves the constitutional reform that allows the nationalization of copper mining, ratified days later by the president Salvador Allende.

.- The Mexican pilot of Formula 1 Pedro Rodriguez de la Vega dies in an accident on the track norisringin the “200 Miles from Nuremberg“, in Germany.

1973.- 124 of the occupants of a Boeing 707 of varig in the forced landing near the Parisian airport of Orly.

1975.- The general strike called by CGT causes the fall of argentine government. The president, Isabel Peronaccepts the salary demands and his minister Jose Lopez Rega leave the country.

.- They announce the discovery of more than 7,000 sculptures of terracotta warriors from Xian.(China), found a year earlier.

1978.- 215 people die and another 67 are injured when a truck with propylene explodes in front of the campsite “The Alfaques“, in tarragona (Spain).

1982.- Italy He wins Soccer World Cup by beating the RFAin the stadium Santiago Bernabeu of Madrid.

1983.- The 119 occupants of an Ecuadorian plane die TAKE ME that crashes near Basin.

1991.- The 261 occupants of a Nigerian plane die shortly after taking off from jeddah (Saudi Arabia).

.- A total eclipse of the sun leaves in the dark a strip 250 kilometers wide by 10,000 long, from the hawaii islands (USA) until Brazil.

1992.- He General Synod of the Anglican church approves that women can exercise the priesthood.

2000.- The Peruvian military justice sentences to life imprisonment Ernestina HinostrozaComrade Marcia”, political command of Shining Path.

.- Some thirty heads of state agree in lome the creation of the african unionwhich happens to Organization for African Unity (OAU).

.- He University Hospital of The Peace of Madrid performs, on a 28-month-old girl, the first combined liver and intestine transplant in Spain.

2001.- Restored calm in Kingston (Jamaica) after three days of violence between police and opponents of the Government, in which 24 people die.

2002.- Moroccan troops settle on the Spanish islet of Parsleyalthough they abandon her a week later.

2005.- It is held in Three songs (Madrid) the first wedding between homosexuals, between Emilio Menendez and Carlos Baturin.

2006.- A wave of attacks on seven suburban trains in Mumbai (India) causes 185 deaths and more than 700 injuries.

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2010.- 74 people die in the attacks in two locals of Kampala (Uganda), when they watched the final of the Soccer World Cupdisputed in South Africa. The act was attributed to the group Al Shabablinked to Al Qaeda.

.- The Spanish soccer team is proclaimed champion of world of South Africa by beating in the final Holland (1-0).

2011.- The surgeon Pedro Cavadas performs in the faith hospital of Valencia (Spain) the first bilateral leg transplant in the world.

2015.- Drug trafficker’s second escape from a Mexican prison Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

2017.- post office Donald Trump Jr.eldest son of the president of USAreveal that he sought Russian support to harm Hillary Clintonhis father’s rival in the contest for the White House.

2021.- Cuba registers the most serious citizen protests since the nineties encouraged by the economic and health situation in the country.

BIRTHS

1561.- Luis de Gongora y ArgoteSpanish poet.

1775.- Jose Maria Blanco y CrespoWhite White“, Spanish writer.

1920.- Yul BrynnerAmerican actor.

1934.- Giorgio ArmaniItalian designer and couturier.

1943.- Peter CarrascoSpanish boxer.

1958.- Hugo SanchezMexican soccer player and coach.

1959.- Suzanne VegaAmerican singer.

1963.- Manuel MarreroCuban Prime Minister.

1972.- Henrique CaprilesVenezuelan politician.

DEATHS

1766.- Elizabeth of FarneseQueen of Spain and wife of Felipe V.

1920.- Maria Eugenia de Palafox-PortocarreroEugenia de Montijo, Spanish and French Empress.

1937.- George GershwinAmerican composer.

1974.- Par LagerkvistSwedish writer and Nobel Prize winner of 1951.

1976.- Greiff LionColombian poet.

1989.- Laurence OlivierBritish actor.

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2003.- mary mercedes carranzaColombian poet.

2007.- Alfonso Lopez Michelsenformer president of Colombia.

2015.- satoru iwataJapanese businessman and president of Nintendo.

Source: Elcomercio

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