Ephemeris of July 15: What happened in the world on a day like today?

On July 15, but in 1606, he was born in Leiden (Netherlands) Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Baroque painter considered one of the greatest artists of all time.

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Other ephemeris

1662.- Charles II of England creates the Royal Society of London.

1834.- The regent María Cristina definitively abolishes the Court of the Inquisition, abolished by Fernando VII (1820).

1840.- The treaty for the Pacification of the Levant is signed at the London Convention, which grants Egypt almost total autonomy from Turkey.

1864.- Alfred Nobel patents nitroglycerin, an explosive discovered earlier by the Italian Ascanio Sobrero.

1867.- President Benito Juárez enters Mexico City after overthrowing the empire of Maximilian I.

1902.- The International Conference for the repression of the white slave trade opens in Paris. Eight years later, its traffic is suppressed.

1914.- Revolution in Mexico: Mexican President Adolfo de la Huerta resigns, under pressure from the US and after the armed opposition of “Pancho” Villa and Emiliano Zapata.

1916.- Signature in Bogotá of the Muñoz Vernaza-Suárez Treaty, which sets the limits between Ecuador and Colombia.

1916.- William Boeing creates the aeronautical company Pacific Aero Products Co, the predecessor of the current Boeing.

1918.- The second battle of the Marne begins, the last major German offensive in World War I against Franco-British troops.

1927.- Serious clashes in Vienna between the left and extreme right, with 89 dead and 600 injured, for the acquittal of three members of the “Former Combatants Movement” who had killed a worker and a child.

1946.- Sentenced to death in Belgrade Draga Mihailovich, head of the anti-communist “chetnik” guerrilla group, which fought against the Germans and Tito’s guerrilla group.

1955.- Juan Domingo Perón terminated the revolution and resigned from the presidency of the Argentine Justicialista Party to dedicate himself to the Presidency of the Republic. He was deposed in September.

1958.- Landing of more than 5,400 US Marines in Beirut, the first outpost at the request of Lebanese President Camille Chamun.

1960.- UN forces arrive in the Congo to prevent a civil war between the government of Patrice Lumumba and the Katanga rebels.

1965.- The Ecuadorian Military Junta, headed by Ramón Castro Jijón, imposes martial law and a curfew in Guayaquil due to the riots that demanded the return of the constitutional Government.

1965.- The American probe “Mariner IV” transmits the first images of the surface of Mars, taken 9,000 kilometers from the red planet.

1968.- The first commercial airline between the United States and the USSR is inaugurated with a weekly flight from New York (Pan American) and from Moscow (Aeroflot).

1974.- Greek Cypriot National Guard officers overthrow the President of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, and appoint Nicos Sampson.

1985.- The World Conference on Women opens in Nairobi.

1987.- Mikhail Gorbachev condemns for the first time Stalin’s repression in the USSR, the purges of 1937 and 1938, and calls for safeguarding the achievements of 70 years of socialism.

1987.- The Taipei government lifts martial law in Taiwan, in force for 38 years when nationalists fled mainland China after losing the civil war.

1997.- Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic is elected President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) by both houses of Parliament.

1997.- The Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace is killed by two shots to the head at the door of his mansion in Miami Beach (Florida).

1999.- The peace process in Ulster was blocked when the appointment of an autonomous government for Northern Ireland failed, due to the boycott of the deputies of the majority Ulster Unionist Party.

2001.- The US successfully tests the anti-missile shield by shooting down a Minuteman 2 missile over the Pacific with an interceptor 7,725 kilometers away.

2002.- The parliamentarians of India elect Abdul Kalam, father of the national atomic program, president of the Republic.

2014.- The Luxembourgish conservative Jean-Claude Juncker is elected president of the European Commission.

2016.- The seventh military coup in modern Turkey takes place, which fails a few hours later. At least 270 people die and the purge of tens of thousands of soldiers and civil servants begins.

2021.- The floods caused by a strong storm begin that leaves 184 dead in Germany and 41 in Belgium, due to the overflow of the Ahr and Mehaigne rivers.

2022.- Rafael Caro Quintero, the most wanted capo by the US DEA, is captured in Guachochi, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. 15 members of the Mexican Navy who participated in the operation to capture him die after a helicopter crashed in Sinaloa.

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births

1848.- Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist.

1858.- Emmeline Pankhurst, British suffragette leader.

1871.- José Enrique Rodó, Uruguayan writer.

1939.- Anibal Cavaco Silva, former Portuguese President and Prime Minister.

1939.- Sayed Ali Husseini Khamenei, Iranian spiritual leader and former president.

1943.- Joscelyn Bell Burnell, Irish astrophysicist who discovered the first radio signal from a pulsar.

1946.- Linda Ronstadt, American singer.

1946.- Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei.

1950.- Arianna Huffington, American writer and co-editor of “The Huffington Post”.

1953.- Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former Haitian president.

1959.- Vincent Lindon, French filmmaker.

1961.– Forest Whitaker, American actor.

1963.- Brigitte Nielsen, Danish actress and model.

deaths

1885.- Rosalía de Castro, Spanish poet.

1904.- Anton Chekhov, Russian writer.

1921.- Alfonso de Guimaraens, Brazilian poet.

1958.- Nuri Al Said, former Iranian Prime Minister.

1979.- Juana Ibarbourou, “Juana de América”, Uruguayan poet.

1979.- Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, former Mexican president.

2000.- Juan Filloy, Argentine writer.

2003.- Roberto Bolaño, Chilean writer.

2017.- Martin Landau, American actor.

2017.- Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician and the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal.

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Source: Elcomercio

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