December 22nd Birthdays: What happened in the world on a day like today?

On a December 22but starting in 1972, 16 survivors were located from a plane that crashed 72 days earlier in the Andes with 45 people on board, including members of a Montevideo rugby team.

OTHER ANIMALS

1622.- Andrés Páez Sotomayor founds the city of Bucaramangain the department of Santander of New Granada (current Colombia).

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1721.- Philip V orders that the Santa Rosa de Lima Seminary School becomes the Royal and Pontifical University of Caracas (Venezuela).

1808.- Premiere in Vienna to the Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6 in Ludwig van Beethoven

1811.- Attempted insurrection for independence in Grenade (current territory of Nicaragua).

1812.- Establish the Police Legal Advice in Argentina.

1815.- Mexican priest and insurgent shot José Maria Morelos in San Cristobal Ecatepec (Mexico), captured a month earlier in Temalaca. He was one of the heroes of War of Independence.

1849.- The Russian writer Fyodor M. Dostoevsky He is pardoned in front of the squad that was going to shoot him.

1857.- Allied English and French forces take the Chinese city of Cantonwhich was later governed by a commission formed by the UK It is France.

1894.- Sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage It is high treason for the captain Alfred Dreyfus and is deported to Guyana. In 1906 he was rehabilitated.

1941.- The American president, Franklin Delano Rooseveltand the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill are interviewed in washington after the Japanese attack Pearl Haborin which the strategy “Europe first”. The conference beginsArcadia”.

1961.- Two years after the start of the Cuban Revolution’s literacy campaign, Fidel Castro proclaims to the country “Illiteracy-Free Territory”.

1965.- Premiere in New York in “Doctor Zhivago” in David Lean.

1966.- Ian Smithhead of the Government of Southern Rhodesiadeclares that the country becomes a Republic and leaves the Communityafter the sanctions imposed by the UN.

1971.- The Austrian Kurt Waldheimelected secretary general of UN.

1978.- Deng Xiaoping receives support in the III plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to launch the country’s economic reform.

1981.- The general Leopoldo Galtieri becomes president of Argentine Republicreplacing the general Roberto Violeta.

1988.- It is signed in UN the peace agreement in South Africa in between Angola, Cuba It is South Africa13 years of hostilities end and the independence of Namibia in South Africa.

1989.- Hans Modrow It is Helmut Kohlleaders of both Germanysopen the Brandenburg Gatesymbol of the 28th anniversary of the division of Europe.

.- They tear down Romania for Nicolae Ceaucescu after 23 years of dictatorship. He was executed three days later along with his wife Elena.

nineteen ninety.- Lech Walesa becomes the first president in history Poland elected by universal suffrage.

1993.- Approved a provisional Constitution that eliminates the “apartheid” in South Africaby the tricameral Parliament by 237 votes to 45.

1997.- Representatives of the ruling factions Somalia since 1991 they have signed Cairo a pact, under the sponsorship of Egypt and the Arab Leagueto create a federated State with a central Government.

.- Royal massacre (Mexico): a group of hooded men shot and killed 45 people with machetes Tzotzil indigenous people in that community Chiapas.

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2010.- Jorge Rafael Videla He is sentenced to life in prison for crimes against humanity committed during the Argentine dictatorship.

.- The president of U.S, Barack Obamasigns the abolition of the 1993 law that prohibited homosexuals declared to serve in the Army.

2014.- Nicaragua inaugurates preparatory works for the interoceanic channel that will connect the Atlantic it’s him Pacific.

2016.- O UN General Assembly approves the creation of a commission to investigate crimes in syrian war.

2018.- A tsunami caused by the eruption of Anak Krakatau volcano leaves at least 437 dead on the Indonesian islands of Java It is Sumatra.

.- He Cuban Parliament unanimously approves the project new Constitutionsupported in a referendum in February 2019.

2022.- The former journalist Natasa Pirc Musar sworn in as (first) president of Slovenia.

.- The calls glass frogs They use transparency to camouflage themselves when they sleep and scientists in the USA discovered that they do so by accumulating red blood cells in their liver, which contain reflective crystals of guanine.

BIRTHDAY

1853.- Teresa CarrenoVenezuelan pianist, singer and composer.

1858.- Giacomo PucciniItalian composer.

1859.- Manuel Gutiérrez NájeraMexican poet.

1876.- Filippo Tommaso MarinettiItalian poet.

1933.- Abel Pachecoformer president of Costa Rica.

1947.- Porfirio Lobo Sosaformer Honduran president.

1959.- Bernd SchusterFormer German footballer and coach.

1962.- Ralph FiennesEnglish actor.

DEATHS

1870.- Gustavo Adolfo BécquerSpanish poet.

1880.- Maria Ana Evans“George Eliot”, British writer.

1969.- José von SternbergAmerican filmmaker of Austrian origin.

1989.- Samuel BeckettIrish writer.

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2007.- Julien GracqueFrench writer.

2014.- Joe CockerBritish rock singer.

2018.- Roberto Suazo Córdovaformer Honduran president.

Source: Elcomercio

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