ESTADOS UNIDOS.- Te contamos la aniversarios del 17 de enerolos hechos más importantes ocurridos en una fecha como hoy entre el año 1800 y 2021.
1800
1811.- Tropas realistas derrotan a los insurgentes mexicanos en la batalla del Puente Calderón, durante la Guerra de Independencia de México.
1900
1912.- El explorador británico Robert Scott llega al Polo Sur, un mes después que el noruego Roald Amundsen.
1913.- Raymond Poincaré es elegido presidente de la República Francesa.
1917.- Estados Unidos compra las Islas Vírgenes a Dinamarca por 25 millones de dólares. La inauguración tuvo lugar el 31 de marzo.
1929.- El popular personaje Popeye aparece por primera vez en una tira cómica en el New York Evening Journal.
.- Un violento terremoto destruye la ciudad de Cumaná, en Venezuela.
1935.- El Consejo de la Sociedad de Naciones acuerda reincorporar la cuenca del Sarre a Alemania.
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1953.- Australian tennis player Ken Rosewall, aged 18 years and 2 months, wins the final of his country’s tournament and becomes the youngest to do so (until 2020).
1961.- Patricio Lumumba, Congolese leader and promoter of the independence of the Congo, is assassinated in Katanga.
1966.- Two US planes collide over the province of Almería, in Spain, and four atomic bombs fall, three near the town of Palomares and another near the capital of Almería. It took three months to find them.
1974.- The Colombian guerrilla April 19 Movement (M-19) steals Bolívar’s sword from the Quinta de Bolívar house-museum in Bogotá.
1991.- Operation Desert Storm begins to force Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait. American planes, in collaboration with other multinational force aircraft, bomb Baghdad.
1994.- An earthquake in Los Angeles (California, USA) causes 68 deaths and material damage of 35 billion dollars.
1995.- An earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale shakes the Japanese city of Kobe, causing more than 6,400 deaths.
1997.- The biblical city of Hebron, sacred to Jews and Muslims, remains in Palestinian hands after almost thirty years of Israeli occupation.
2000
2000.- The companies Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham agree to form the new Glaxo SmithKline group, the largest pharmaceutical company in the world.
2010.- The right-wing Sebastián Piñera wins the presidential elections in Chile, putting an end to twenty years of Concertación governments, made up of center and left parties.
2014.- US President Barack Obama orders an end to espionage on leaders of allied countries and reform the telephone surveillance of the National Security Agency (NSA).
2017.- Obama commutes the sentence of former soldier Chelsea Manning, who leaked secret documents to Wikileaks in 2010 when she was a military intelligence analyst.
2018.- Viorica Dancila (social democrat) becomes the first woman to head the Government of Romania.
2019.- An attack by the National Liberation Army (ELN) against the Police School in Bogotá causes 21 deaths.
2021.- Russian opponent Alexei Navalny is arrested upon returning to Russia, five months after being poisoned.
BIRTHS.
1600.- Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright.
1706.- Benjamin Franklin, American scientist and diplomat.
1863.- David Lloyd George, British politician.
1897.- Caroline Emilie ‘Lili’ Bleeker, Dutch physicist and businesswoman.
1911.- George Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize winner in Economics in 1982.
1919.- Antonio Mingote, Spanish graphic humorist.
1922.- Betty White, American actress.
1933.- Dalida, Italian-French singer born in Egypt.
1940.- Tabaré Vázquez, former president of Uruguay.
1942.- Antonio Fraguas ‘Forges’, Spanish humorist and cartoonist.
.- Cassius Clay (Mohamed Ali), American boxer.
1943.- René García Préval, former president of Haiti.
1944.- Concha Cuetos, Spanish actress.
1952.- Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese musician.
1954.- Marina Rossell, Spanish singer-songwriter.
1955.- Pietro Parolin, Italian cardinal, Secretary of State of the Vatican.
.- Katalin Karikó, Hungarian biochemist.
1956.- Paul Young, British musician.
1962.- Jim Carrey, Canadian-American actor.
1963.- Elena Pisonero, Spanish economist and politician.
1964.- Michelle Obama, lawyer and former first lady of the United States.
1971.- Javier Gutiérrez, Spanish actor.
1978.- Joan Lino Martínez, Spanish long jumper of Cuban origin.
1981.- Daniel Diges, Spanish singer and actor.
1983.- Álvaro Arbeloa, former Spanish soccer player.
1984.- Calvin Harris, British musician and producer.
1985.- Adriana Ugarte, Spanish actress.
1988.- FKA twigs (Tahliah Debrett Barnett), British singer, dancer, songwriter and producer.
1990.- Esteban Chaves, Colombian cyclist.
DEATHS.
1893.- Cristino Martos, Spanish politician.
1910.- Joaquim Nabuco de Araujo, Brazilian writer and politician opposed to slavery.
1975.- Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, Colombian military man and politician.
1989.- Alfredo Zitarrosa, Uruguayan singer-songwriter.
1991.- Olav V, king of Norway.
1996.- Pilar Trenas, Spanish journalist.
2002.- Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature.
2005.- Zhao Ziyang, former prime minister of the People’s Republic of China and former general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.
.- Virginia Mayo, American actress.
2008.- Bobby Fischer, American chess player, world champion.
2010.- José Heredia Maya, Spanish professor and writer, first professor at Gypsy University.
2013.- Fernando Guillén, Spanish actor.
2015.- Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress.
2018.- Augusto Polo Campos, Peruvian composer.
2019.- Vicente Álvarez Areces, Spanish politician, president of the Principality of Asturias between 1999 and 2011.
.- Mary Oliver, American poet.
.- Sam Savage, American writer.
2020.- Juan Carlos Saravia, Argentine folk singer.
2023.- Lucile Randon (Sister André), French nun and one of the oldest people of all time (118 years).
CELEBRATIONS
Spain
Albacete: San Antón Festival.
Menorca (Balearic Islands): Menorca Day.
Elgoibar (Guipúzcoa): patron saint’s day in honor of San Antón.
Arcenillas (Zamora): patron saint’s day in honor of San Antón.
CATHOLIC SANTORAL
Saint Anthony, abbot (356).6
Saints Speeusippus, Elausippus, Melasippus and Leonila of Cappadocia, martyrs.
Saint Julian Sabas, ascetic (c. 377).
Saint Marcellus de Die, bishop (510).
Saint Sulpicio Pio, bishop (647).
Blessed Gamalbert of Bavaria, priest (c. 802).
Saint Roselina of Celle, prioress (1329).
Saint Jenaro Sánchez Delgadillo, priest and martyr (1927).
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