Ephemeris of August 12: What happened in the world on a day like today?

On August 12, 1992, USA, Mexico and Canada announce the agreement on the FTA (FTA) to establish the largest economic bloc in the world.

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Other ephemeris

1806.- Troops commanded by Santiago Liniers recapture Buenos Aires from the English and take General William Berestford and 1,200 of his men prisoner.

1812.- Spanish War of Independence: After the Battle of Arapiles, the Allied Army led by Wellington enters Madrid.

1821.- Inauguration of the University of Buenos Aires in the Church of San Ignacio.

1851.- American mechanic Isaac Merrit Singer patents the sewing machine.

1877.- Thomas Edison completes the first model for the phonograph, a device that recorded sound on aluminum foil cylinders.

1883.- The South African zebra quagga goes extinct, as the last specimen dies at Amsterdam Zoo.

1903.- The Colombian Senate rejects the ratification of the Herrán-Hay Treaty, by virtue of which Colombia granted the US the exclusive right to build the Panama Canal and use it for 100 years. This decision motivated Panama to separate from Colombia.

1905.- The Argentine president, Manuel Quintana, escapes unharmed from an attack perpetrated by a Catalan anarchist.

1914.- France and England declare war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

1927.- Premiere of “Wings”, the first silent film to win an Oscar for best film, starring American actress Clara Bow.

1928.- Deixa Falar is created, the first samba school in Brazil.

1930.- American inventor Clarence Birdseye obtains a patent for the method of quick freezing of food.

1933.- Dictator General Gerardo Machado flees from Cuba to the US after being overthrown, who is provisionally replaced as President Carlos Manuel de Céspedes.

1953.- The Soviet Union detonates its first hydrogen bomb.

1963.- Members of the Peronist Youth steal General José de San Martín’s saber from the National Historical Museum of Buenos Aires.

1964.- South Africa is excluded from the Olympic Games due to apartheid.

1968.- The police open fire in Montevideo -under the presidency of Jorge Pacheco Areco- against a demonstration of university students, injuring one, Líber Arce, who will die two days later.

1981.- IBM introduces the first personal computer.

1985.- An Air Japan Boeing 747 crashes into a Japanese mountain: 520 dead and 4 survivors.

1988.- The controversial Martin Scorsese film “The Last Temptation of Christ” is released in the United States.

1992.- The US, Mexico and Canada announce the agreement on the Free Trade Agreement (FTA), which establishes the largest economic bloc in the world.

2000.- The Russian nuclear submarine “Kursk” sinks in the Barents Sea, in the waters of the Arctic Ocean, and its 118 crew die.

2003.- The Argentine Chamber of Deputies repeals the Full Stop and Due Obedience laws that prevented the prosecution of the repressors of the last military regime.

2009.- Typhoon “Morakot” leaves more than 700 dead in Taiwan.

2010.- A car bomb explodes in front of the Plaza 67 building in Bogotá, where Caracol Radio and Agencia Efe have their headquarters, in an attack that the Colombian authorities attribute to the FARC.

2013.- Prince Juan Friso, brother of King William of the Netherlands, dies at the age of 44, after eighteen months in a coma due to a skiing accident.

2016.- The Venezuelan Court of Appeal ratifies the 13-year sentence of opposition member Leopoldo López.

2018.- Successfully launched the Parker probe, the first spacecraft to transit the solar corona.

2020.- The former president of Ecuador, Abdalá Bucaram, is arrested for alleged organized crime.

2022.- The US includes the vice president of Paraguay, Hugo Velázquez, on its corrupt list for bribing an official of one million dollars in exchange for obstructing an investigation that threatened his financial interests.

2022.- Anglo-Indian writer Salman Rushdie is stabbed in the neck during a conference in New York.

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births

1866.- Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, P. Nobel 1922.

1881.- Cecil B. de Mille, American film producer.

1911.- Mario Moreno, “Cantinflas”, Mexican comic actor.

1912.- Sam Fuller, American filmmaker.

1926.- John Derek, American filmmaker.

1930.- George Soros, Hungarian-born American tycoon and philanthropist.

1935.- John Cazale, American actor.

1939.- George Hamilton, American actor.

[1945-Jean Nouvel, French architect.

1949.- Fernando Collor de Melo, Brazilian politician.

1949.- Mark Knopfler, British guitarist.

1954.- François Hollande, former president of France.

1971.- Pete Sampras, American tennis player.

1975.- Casey Affleck, American actor.

1980.-Dominique Swain, American actress.

1992.- Cara Delevingne, British model.

deaths

30 BC.- Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt.

1546.- Francisco de Vitoria, Spanish Dominican considered founder of International Law.

1827.- William Blake, English painter and poet.

1848.- George Stephenson, English inventor of the steam locomotive and the railway.

1900.- Wilhelm Steinitz, first world chess champion.

1955.- Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel Prize in Literature.

1964.- Ian Fleming, British writer, creator of James Bond.

1982.- Henry Fonda, American actor.

1989.- William Shockley, British-American, inventor of the transistor.

1991.- Hans Weigel, Austrian writer.

1992.- John Cage, American composer.

2000.- Loretta Young, American actress.

2013.- Prince Juan Friso of the Netherlands.

2014.- Lauren Bacall, American actress.

2022.- Anne Heche, American actress.

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Source: Elcomercio

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