Un día como hoy, pero de 1968, falleció en la Ciudad de México Vicente Lombardo Toledano, fundador y dirigente de la CTM y del Partido Popular (luego PPS). Además, se celebra el dia internacional de la tolerancia, Guinness World Record Day, Día Internacional del Flamenco, Día Internacional del Patrimonio Mundial y Día Mundial de la Enfermedad Respiratoria. Obstrucción crónica. Estas son las efemérides de este 16 de noviembre y los santos católicos.
Otras efemérides de hoy
1519.- El conquistador español Diego Vázquez de Cuéllar funda la ciudad de La Habana, actual capital de Cuba, a la que se llamó Villa de San Cristóbal de La Habana.
1780.- El líder indígena Túpac Amaru II proclama por primera vez la abolición de la esclavitud en América.
1855.- El médico, explorador y misionero británico David Livingstone descubre las cataratas Victoria en el curso del río Zambezi, en Rhodesia.
1885.- El empresario estadounidense George Eastman, fundador de la empresa Kodak, inventa en Estados Unidos la película de nitrocelulosa para imprimir imágenes.
1989.- Los “Escuadrones de la Muerte” salvadoreños asesinan a seis sacerdotes jesuitas ya dos mujeres. Cinco de los jesuitas son españoles, y entre ellos se encuentra el rector de la Universidad Centroamericana (UCA), Ignacio Ellacuría.
1904.- Estados Unidos se hace con todos los derechos del Canal de Panamá por 40 millones de dólares.
1918.- Se proclama la República Popular de Hungría, tras la declaración de independencia y disolución del Imperio Austro-Húngaro.
1933.- Estados Unidos y la Unión Soviética establecen relaciones diplomáticas.
1938.- Finaliza la batalla del Ebro, una de las más sangrientas y largas de la guerra civil española.
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1955.- King Mohamed V of Morocco returns from exile in Corsica where he had been deported by the French colonial authorities. The following year the country regains its independence.
1965.- The Soviet Union launches the Venera-3 probe into space, the first spacecraft to touch another planet when it hit the surface of Venus in March 1966.
1973.- The third and last crew of “Skylab” takes off, the first space station in the United States built as a response to the Soviet Salyut-1, the first orbital station in history.
1974.- The so-called Arecibo Message is sent from Puerto Rico and into space, the most powerful transmission ever made in an attempt to communicate with the outside world.
1980.- The XV Congress of the Socialist International concludes in Madrid, in which the former German chancellor, Willy Brandt, is re-elected president, a post he will hold until his death in 1992.
1985.- The girl Omayra Sánchez Garzón, victim of the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano, dies in Armero (Colombia). She spent three days trapped in the remains of her house.
1989.- The “Death Squads” assassinate six Jesuit priests and two women in San Salvador. Five of the Jesuits are Spanish, including the rector of the Central American University (UCA), Ignacio Ellacuría.
1994.- The Ukrainian Parliament approves the country’s accession to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
1995.- The retired general, Liamin Zerual wins the first plural presidential elections in the history of Algeria.
2000.- The President of the United States, Bill Clinton, visits Vietnam, 25 years after the end of the war. It is the first visit by a US president since Richard Nixon visited Saigon in 1969.
2001.- Mohamed Atef, Osama Bin Laden’s lieutenant and mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, dies after an American bombardment of Kabul (Afghanistan).
2003.- Forward Leo Messi makes his debut with FC Barcelona in a friendly match against Porto in that Portuguese city.
2004.- The Supreme Court confirms the competence of the Spanish justice system to try the former Argentine soldier Adolfo Scilingo for crimes against humanity during the Argentine dictatorship.
2005.- The Supreme Court of Chile determines that Augusto Pinochet is fit to stand trial and that he exaggerated his senile dementia.
2007.- The tail of Comet Holmes reaches a diameter of 1.4 million kilometers, which exceeds the diameter of the Sun and becomes the largest object in the Solar System.
2008.- The Government of Baghdad approves the departure of US troops from Iraq before December 30, 2011.
2012.- The XXII Ibero-American Summit is inaugurated in Cádiz, the third to be held in Spain.
2016.- Russian President Vladimir Putin revokes Russia’s signature of the Rome Statute, the legal basis for the International Criminal Court.
2017.- Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting “Salvator Mundi” is sold for 450 million dollars, a world record.
2017.- The Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez obtains the Cervantes Prize for Spanish letters.
2019.- In Cuba, the 500th anniversary of the inauguration of the city of Havana is celebrated, an event in which the Capitol is reopened, a building built between 1927 and 1929 in the image of its twin in Washington, and which remained closed after a decade of restoration
2020.- Launch from Cape Canaveral (USA) of the SpaceX and NASA Resilience capsule, in the first manned operational mission to the International Space Station (ISS) from US soil.
2021.- The South Korean automobile group Hyundai Motor Group announces the start-up of the company Supernal, which will be in charge of urban air mobility, for which it develops an electric rapid takeoff and landing vehicle (eVTOL, for its acronym in English) .
births
1717.- Jean Le Rond D’Alambert, French mathematician and physicist.
1892.- Tazio Nuvolari, Italian motorist.
1895.- Pau Hindemith, German composer.
1922.- José Saramago, Portuguese writer.
1955.- Héctor Raúl Cúper, Argentine soccer coach.
1964.- Coral Astrid Bistuer, Spanish taekwondo player.
– Diana Krall, Canadian jazz pianist and singer.
deaths
1797.- Frederick William II, King of Prussia.
1960.- Clark Gable, American actor.
1997.- Georges Marchais, French communist leader.
2006.- Milton Friedman, economist, Nobel Prize in Economics 1976.
2019.- Terry O’Neill, British photographer.
Catholic Saints
- Saint Margaret of Scotland
- Saint Edmund Rich
- Saint Eucherius of Lyons
- saint fidencio bishop
- Saint Gertrude the Great
- Saint Agnes of Assisi
- Saint Lucia of Narni
- Saint Otmaro of Switzerland
- San Roque González and companions
- Blessed Edward Osbaldeston
- Blessed Lucy of Narni
- Blessed Simeon of Cava
These were the ephemeris of this November 16 and the Catholic saints.
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