ESTADOS UNIDOS.-Te contamos las efemérides del 14 de agostolos hechos más importantes ocurridos en una fecha como hoy entre 1502 y 2022.
1502.- En su cuarto y último viaje, Colón desembarcó en Honduras y se cree que fue el primero en darle nombre al país debido a la profundidad del mar que encontró cerca de la costa.
1556.- Establecimiento definitivo de los portugueses en China, cerca de Cantón, donde fundaron Macao.
1598.- Se inaugura en Sevilla la Casa de la Lonja, que más tarde se convertirá en el Archivo General de Indias.
1808.- Los franceses levantaron el primer sitio que pusieron sobre Zaragoza, al conocer la derrota de su Ejército en la Batalla de Bailén.
1879.- Se firma en París el tratado de paz entre España y Perú.
1881.- El médico cubano Carlos Finlay demuestra que el agente transmisor de la fiebre amarilla es el mosquito Aedes.
1912.- Intervención de fuerzas norteamericanas en Nicaragua a pedido del presidente Adolfo Díaz, para sofocar el levantamiento que amenazaba con derrocarlo.
1914.- Japón declara la guerra a Alemania.
1917.- China declara la guerra a Alemania y sus aliados.
1919.- Entra en vigor la nueva Constitución del Reich.
1920.-Arrancan los VII Juegos Olímpicos en Amberes, tras un paréntesis de ocho años a causa de la Guerra Mundial.
1941.- Firma de la Carta del Atlántico, firmada por Churchill y Roosevelt.
[1945.- II World War: US President Harry Truman announces the unconditional surrender of Japan.
1949.- First elections in the newly created Federal Republic of Germany won by the Christian Democrats led by Konrad Adenauer who was elected first chancellor on September 14.
1957.- Proclamation of the Kingdom of Morocco. The until then sultan Mohamed V becomes king.
1980.- The historic 17-day strike broke out at the Gdansk shipyard (Poland), which gave rise to the birth of the “Solidarity” union.
1989.- The president of South Africa, Pieter Botha, announces his resignation.
1990.- The UN Decolonization Committee urges the United Kingdom and Argentina to reach a peaceful agreement on the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands.
1994.- The Government of Sudan detains in Khartoum and hands over to France the Venezuelan terrorist Illitch Ramírez Sánchez, alias “Carlos”.
nineteen ninety six.- 35 people die electrocuted when a high voltage cable falls, hit by fireworks, in a festival on the occasion of the 456th anniversary of the founding of Arequipa, in Peru.
2000.- The Council of the Russian Orthodox Church approves the canonization of the last tsar, Nicholas II, and other members of his family.
2001.-An experimental NASA plane, powered by photovoltaic solar energy, breaks the world record for flying height.
2003.-A blackout paralyzes New York and spreads to other cities in the northeast of the country and in the southeast of Canada. It is the third largest in the last 38 years and the largest in US history.
2003.- Fernando Vaca Narvaja and Roberto Cirilo Perdía, two of the three responsible for the Montoneros, the armed wing of the Peronist left in the 70s, are arrested in Buenos Aires.
2006.- The US authorities detain the Mexican Francisco Javier Arellano Félix, head of the Tijuana cartel.
2006.- Dell and Sony carry out the largest battery recall in the electronics industry due to fire threat
2007.-250 members of the Yazidi sect die when four suicide truck bombs explode in Nineveh (Iraq).
2008.-Poland and the United States agree on the creation of an anti-missile shield in Polish territory after years of negotiations.
2013.- The Russian brothers Pavel and Nikolai Durov launch the Telegram messaging application.
2015.- The American flag flies again in Cuba, after 54 years.
2016.- The South African athlete Wayde van Niekerk sets a new world record for the 400 meter dash with 43’03, surpassing that of Michael Johnson at the Rio de Janeiro Games.
2016.- The jihadist group Boko Haram broadcasts a video that shows that the girls from Chibok (Nigeria), kidnapped in 2014, are still captive.
– Jamaican Usain Bolt, the first athlete in history to win three consecutive 100-meter Olympic titles by winning the final of the Rio Games.
2018.- 43 dead from the collapse of the Morandi bridge in Genoa (Italy).
.-The Vermont Democrats make history in the US by electing a transgender candidate for the Governorship of a state for the first time.
2021.-A powerful earthquake in Haiti leaves more than 1,400 dead.
BIRTHS
- 1867.- John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel-1932.
- 1940.- Arístides Royo, former president of Panama.
- [1945-WimWendersGermanfilmmaker
- 1947.- Danielle Steel, American writer.
- 1953.- James Horner, American soundtrack composer and conductor.
- 1959.- Magic Johnson, former American basketball player.
- -Marcia Gay Harden, American actress.
- 1963.- Emmanuelle Béart, French actress.
- 1966.- Halle Berry, American actress.
- 1980.- Estrella Morente, flamenco singer.
- 1983.- Mila Kunis, Ukrainian naturalized American actress.
DEATHS
- 1951.- William Randolph Hearst, American press magnate.
- 1956.- Bertolt Brecht, German poet and playwright.
- 1971.- Georg von Opel, German car manufacturer.
- 1972.- Pierre Braseur, French actor.
- 1985.- Sergio Galeotti, Italian architect and co-founder of Giorgio Armani Corporation.
- 1988.- Enzo Ferrari, Italian manufacturer of sports and racing cars.
- 1993.- José Basso, Argentine musician.
- 1994.- Elías Canetti, a British nationalized Bulgarian writer.
- 2004.- Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner for Literature.
- 2007.-Tijon Jrennikov, Russian composer.
- 2016.- Fyvush Finkel, American actor.
- 2020.- Julian Bream, English classical guitarist and lutenist.
- 2022.- Zvika Pick, singer and musician known as “the king of Israeli pop”.
CATHOLIC SAINTS
- Saint Alfred of Hildeseheim
- Saint Arnulf of Soissons
- Saint Eusebius of Rome
- Saint Facananus of Ross
- San Marcelo de Apamea
- Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe
- Saint Tarcisius
- Saint Ursicinus of Illyricum
- Blessed Felix Yuste Cava
- Blessed Elizabeth Renzi
- Blessed Saint of Urbino Brancoisini
- Blessed Vicente Rubiols Castelló
CELEBRATIONS
- Chile: National Radio Amateurs Day
- Pakistan: Independence Day
- Paraguay: Flag Day
- Uruguay: Student Martyrs Day
- Argentina: National Cerealist Day
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