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March 11th birthdays: What happened in the world on a day like today?

In another March 11but in 2004, twenty years ago, a jihadist cell committed the biggest terrorist attack in the history of Spain, in Madrid, by exploding ten devices on four suburban trains, with a final result of 193 dead and more than 2,000 injured.

OTHER ANIMALS

1542.- Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vacafirst royally appointed governor of Assumptionmakes its entry into this Paraguayan city.

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1560.- Laying the first stone of Cusco Cathedral (Peru).

1704.- It’s on sale The daily newspaperthe first newspaper in circulation in UK.

1851.- green premiere of the opera “Rigoletto“, in La Fenice in Venice.

1915.- Mexican Revolution: He General Obregon flee after the entry of troops shoe in the Mexican capital.

1917.- First World War: The English take control Baghdad (Iraq).

1949.- A is promulgated new Constitution in Argentina.

1964.- Raul Leoni take on the Presidency of Venezuela replacing Romulo Betancourt.

1975.- A coup d’état fails to Portugalheaded by Portuguese general Antonio Spinola who left the country to take refuge in Brazil.

1985.- Mikhail Gorbachev appointed president of the presidium of Supreme Soviet from the USSRfour hours after the death of his predecessor, Konstantin Chernienko.

nineteen ninety.- Lithuania separate Soviet Union and proclaims itself a sovereign State with the name of Republic of Lithuania.

1994.- Ordained the first 32 priestesses of the Anglican Church.

1998.- The South Korean company SaeHan Information Systems presents the first music player in MP3 of history, the Eiger MPMan F10.

2000.- Ricardo Lagos becomes the first socialist president elected since the fall of the dictatorship in Pepper.

2001.- Thousands of people receive Plinth in Mexico City to the Zapatista caravan led by “Subcommander Marcos”.

.- The government Taliban in Afghanistan communicates to UN which completed the destruction of the giant buddhas in Bamiyan.

2003.- They start in Have it (Netherlands) the works of International Criminal Courtthe judicial body of the UN to resolve legal disputes raised by member countries.

2006.- The socialist, Michelle Bacheletinvested as the first woman to become head of state in Pepper.

.- A heart attack ends the life of the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic in your cell International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Haguewho judged him crimes against humanity.

2009.- France announces his return to the military structure of the NATO43 years after the General de Gaulle decided to leave.

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2011.- A earthquake magnitude 9 on the Richter scale and later tsunami destroy part of the northeast coast of Japancausing more than 15 thousand deaths, thousands of missing people and a nuclear accident at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima.

2014.- He Parliament of Crimea declares its independence from Ukraine.

2016.- Cuba and the European Union sign the document of their new political dialogue and cooperation agreement, to normalize their bilateral relationship, marked since 1996 by restrictions “common position”.

2018.- Russia try the “Kinzhai” hypersonic missile which, according to the country’s authorities, is capable of bypassing the country’s anti-missile shield U.S.

2020.- O WHO declare how pandemic O COVID-19that infected and killed millions of people around the world.

2021.- Mike Winkelmannknown as Beetlesells a fully digital work (NFT) at auction for US$69 million, the highest price achieved for a work of this type so far.

2022.- The progressive Gabriel Boric takes office as president of Pepper and inaugurates a new cycle of the left in the South American country.

.- A court of peace of The Savior orders the arrest of the former president Alfredo Cristiani (1989-1994) for the massacre of six Jesuit priests, five of them Spanish, and two women in 1989 during the civil war (1980-1992).

BIRTHDAY

1544.- Torquato TassoItalian poet.

1887.- Raoul WalshAmerican film director.

1902.- Luis Gowland MorenoArgentine painter.

1915.- Raquel RodrigoSpanish actress of Cuban origin.

1921.- Astor PiazzolaArgentine bandoneonist and musical composer.

1931.- Rupert MurdochAustralian-born American businessman and publisher.

1940.- Alberto CortezArgentine singer.

1955.- Nina HagenGerman singer.

1978.- Didier DrogbaIvory Coast football player.

DEATHS

1931.- FW MurnauGerman film director.

1950.- Henry MannGerman writer.

1955.- Alexander FlemingBritish doctor, discoverer of penicillin.

1986.- Sonny TerryAmerican blues musician.

1992.- Richard BrooksAmerican writer and filmmaker.

2000.- Kazimierz BrandysPolish writer, author of “Between Two Wars”.

2002.- James TobinAmerican economist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1981.

2006.- Slobodan Milosevicformer president of Yugoslavia.

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2007.- Betty HuttonAmerican actress.

2016.- Keith EmersonBritish musician, founding member of the progressive rock band “Emerson, Lake and Palmer”.

2023.- Ignacio López TarsoMexican actor.

Source: Elcomercio

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