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Anniversaries of September 12: What happened in the world on a day like today?

In a September 12but in 1958, physicist Jack S. Kilby presented the first integrated circuit (microchip) in the United States, the basis of modern technology.

OTHER ANIMALS

1502.- The navigator Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to reach the shores of today’s Nicaragua.

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1827.- It is founded in the city of Valparaiso (Chili) “The Mercury”, the oldest newspaper in circulation in the country.

1848.- Swiss It becomes a federal state through a modification of the Constitution.

1860.- The American Adventurer William Walkerwho five years earlier had had himself proclaimed president of Nicaraguais shot in Honduras.

1910.- Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler premieres his Symphony number 8 in Munich (Germany).

1923.- Southern Rhodesiacurrent Zimbabwebecomes an autonomous colony of the british crown.

1943.- A command of the German SS frees the italian dictator Benito Mussolini from his prison in Mount Gran Sassoone hundred kilometers from Rome.

1949.- The doctor Theodor Heuss is elected president of the new German Federal Republicthe West German sector after the Nazi defeat in the Second World War.

1953.- The liberal guerrilla Flat surrenders his weapons after accepting the amnesty proposed by the Colombian military government of General Rojas Pinilla.

.- The US senator John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier they get married in the church St.Mary in Newport (Rhode Island).

1959.- The television series Bonanza premieres in USA.

1970.- He Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) explodes into Dawson’s Fieldan airfield in the Jordanian desert, the three passenger planes that had been hijacked, after releasing all the hostages.

1972.- The Japanese Go Nagai publish the manga “Mazinger Z”, later converted into a television series.

1974.- Haile Selasiethe last emperor of Ethiopia, is overthrown by a military coup and imprisoned in the capital, Addis Ababa.

1975.- The British band pink floyd releases his ninth album, “Wish you were here”, one of the best-selling albums in history.

1980.- The general Kenan Evrenboss of Turkish Army General Staffcarries out a coup d’état and establishes a military regime.

1989.- The Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowieckiconstitutes the first non-communist government in the country since the World War II.

1992.- The space shuttleEndeavor” is launched into space, with a crew that includes the first married couple of astronauts, the first African-American cosmonaut, and the first Japanese man in space.

.- Abimael Guzmanfounder and leader of the terrorist group Luminous Pathis captured in Lime (Peru).

2002.- An Argentine judge dictates the preventive detention of the former president Leopoldo Galtieri for the disappearance of guerrillas during the dictatorship.

2003.- He UN Security Council lifts the sanctions imposed on Libya for the attacks against two passenger planes in 1998 and 1999.

2005.- Israel completes the complete withdrawal of its military personnel in the Gaza Strip and puts an end to its presence in the area since 1967.

2006.- The file sharing network P2P eDonkey closes permanently after complaints from the recording industry for copyright violation.

2007.- The former president of Philippines Joseph Estradadeposed by a coup d’état in 2002, is sentenced to life imprisonment by corruption.

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2013.- The president of Syria, Bashar al Assadagrees to put chemical weapons under international control in response to the proposal of Russia.

2014.- The South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is found guilty of culpable homicide for the shooting death of his girlfriend, the model Reeva Steenkamp.

2016.- The Cuban opposition Guillermo Farinas, Sakharov Prize 2010 of the European Parliamentabandons the hunger and thirst strike after 54 days.

2020.- He Afghan government and the taliban peace negotiations begin in Doha (Taste), 19 years after the American invasion.

2022.- Ukrainian forces liberate most of the region from Kharkovin the biggest Russian defeat since the invasion.

BIRTH

1888.- Maurice ChevalierFrench singer and actor.

1913.- Jesse OwensAmerican athlete, four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics.

1944.- Barry WhiteAmerican singer.

1973.- Paul WalkerAmerican actor.

1980.- Yao MingChinese basketball player.

1981.- Jennifer HudsonAmerican actress and singer.

1994.- Kim Nam-joon RMSouth Korean musician.”

DEATHS

1977.- Steve BikoSouth African anti-apartheid activist.

1981.- Eugenio MontaleItalian writer.

1992.- Anthony PerkinsAmerican actor.

1993.- Raymond BurrCanadian actor.

2003.- Johnny CashAmerican singer.

2008.- David Foster WallaceAmerican writer.

2009.- Norman BorlaughAmerican scientist, Nobel Peace Prize.

2010.- Claude ChabrolFrench filmmaker.

2013.- Ray DolbyAmerican engineer, inventor of the sound system.

2014.- Ian PaisleyNorthern Irish reverend and politician.

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2017.- Edith “Edie” WindsorAmerican activist, defender of LGBT rights.

2020.- Frederick “Toots” HibbertJamaican musician, member of the “Toots & The Maytals”.

2022.- Ramsey LewisAmerican jazz pianist and composer.

Source: Elcomercio

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