Ephemeris of August 22: What happened in the world on a day like today?

In a August 22ndbut from 1846, in the war between the United States and Mexico, the Americans conquered the city of Santa Fe, capital of New Mexico.

OTHER EVENTS

1526.- The Spanish Toribio Alonso de Salazar discover, in the name of the Spanish king and emperor Carlos Vthe Caroline Islands In the pacific.

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1795.- The National Convention approves the Constitution that confers executive power to the Board of Directors, during the French Revolution.

1812.- Swiss explorer and adventurer Johann Ludwig discover the ruins of Petra in Jordan.

1864.- signed on Geneva Convention and creation of the Red Cross International to assist the victims of armed conflicts.

1872.- A fire destroys the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico.

1910.- Japan announces the annexation of Korea as a protectorate.

1911.- staff of Louvre Museum discover the theft ofthe Gioconda”, which was recovered two years later in Florence.

1922.- The nationalist leader and finance minister of Ireland Michael Collinsis killed during an ambush in the town of Béal na mBláthwithin the framework of the Civil war from the country.

1926.- The military coup led by Georges Kondylisdeposed the dictatorship of Theodoros Pangalos in Greece.

1930.- The military Luis Sanchez Cerro leads a revolutionary pronouncement in Arequipa (Peru) that ends the government of eleven years of Augusto B. Leguia.

1968.- He Pope Paul VI arrives at Bogotain what is the first visit of a Pope to Latin America.

1978.- A Sandinista commando of 25 guerrillas assaults the National Palace of Nicaragua and takes legislators close to the dictator hostage Anastasio Somoza.

1998.- He Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) declares a ceasefire after 23 years of violence in the Ulster.

2001.- He discovery shuttlewith three astronauts on board, lands in Cape Canaveral (Florida, USA) after five months in space.

2003.- A VLS-3 rocketwhich was prepared to put two satellites into orbit, explodes in the Alcantara Launch Center (Brazil) and 16 engineers die.

2004.- The two most famous paintings of Edvard Munch “The Scream” and “The Madonna” are stolen in Oslo (Norway).

2006.- A Russian plane Tu-154 crashes into Ukraine during an emergency landing after being struck by lightning and its 169 occupants die.

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2010.- Thirty-three miners trapped in the deposit of Saint Josephin atacama (Chili), are rescued alive, after 17 days of searching.

2012.- Russia becomes part of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

2020.- the russian opponent Alexei Navalnipoisoned days before at the airport of Omsk (Siberia), arrives at berlin to be treated at the University Hospital of la charité.

BIRTHS

1647.- Dionis PapinFrench physicist.

1862.- Claude Achille DebussyFrench composer.

1893.- Dorothy ParkerAmerican writer.

1898.- alexander calderAmerican sculptor.

1902.- Leni RiefenstahlGerman photographer.

1904.- Deng XiaopingChinese leader.

1928.- Karlheinz StockhausenGerman composer.

1934.- norman schwarzkopfUS military.

1936.- Peter Mladenovformer president of Bulgaria.

1941.- Enrique LoeweSpanish businessman.

1961.- Andres CalamaroArgentine singer-songwriter, musician, composer and producer.

1964.- Mats WilanderSwedish tennis player.

DEATHS

1877.- Thomas PriceSpanish circus impresario.

1878.- Maria Christina of BourbonQueen of spain.

1980.- James McdonellAmerican aviation pioneer.

1998.- Elena GarroMexican writer.

2003.- Argentine Empire (Magdalena Nile del Rio), Spanish-Argentine singer.

2009.- Matilde Ladron de GuevaraChilean writer.

2016.- Edward MalefakisAmerican historian.

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2017.- john abercrombieAmerican musician.

2020.- Walter LureAmerican musician member of the punk rock band “The Heartbreakers”

2021.- Don EverleyAmerican musician of the duo “Everly Brothers”.

Source: Elcomercio

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