In a December 22 like today, but 1989was overthrown in Romania the communist dictator Nicolae Ceaucescuafter 23 years of dictatorship.
OTHER ANIMALS
1808.- They premiere in Vienna Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6 Ludwig van Beethoven.
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1849.- The Russian writer Fedor M. Dostoevsky He is pardoned before the squad that was going to shoot him.
1857.- English and French allied forces take the Chinese city of Cantonwhich was subsequently governed by a commission formed by the United Kingdom and France.
1941.- In Washington the president is interviewed Franklin D. Roosevelt and the British premier Winston Churchill after the Japanese attack Pearl Harborin which the strategy ‘Europe first‘. The conference begins’Arcadia‘.
1966.- Ian Smithhead of the Government of Southern Rhodesiadeclares that the country becomes Republic and leaves the Commonwealthafter the sanctions imposed by the UN.
1971.- The Austrian Kurt Waldheimelected secretary general of the UN.
1972.- The survivors of a plane that crashed 72 days earlier in the Andes mountain range with 45 people on board, including members of a rugby team Montevideo. In total 16 people were saved.
1988.- It is signed in the UN the peace agreement in Southern Africa between Angola, Cuba and South Africa13 years of hostilities end and the independence of Namibia from South Africa.
1989.- Hans Modrow and Helmut Kohlleaders of the two Germanys, open the Brandenburg Gatesymbol for 28 years of the division of Europe.
1990.- Lech Walesa becomes the first president in the history of Poland chosen in universal suffrage.
2010.- The president of USA, Barack Obamasigns the abolition of the 1993 law that prohibited homosexuals declared to serve in the Army.
2016.- The UN General Assembly approves the creation of a commission to investigate crimes in the syrian war.
2018.- A tsunami caused by the eruption of Anak Krakatau volcano leaves at least 437 dead on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra.
.- He Cuban Parliament unanimously approves the draft new Constitutionsupported in a referendum in February 2019.
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2022.- The former journalist Natasa Pirc Musar sworn in as first female president of Slovenia.
BIRTH
1853.- Teresa CarrenoVenezuelan pianist, singer and composer.
1858.- Giacomo PucciniItalian composer.
1859.- Manuel Gutiérrez NájeraMexican poet.
1933.- Abel Pachecoformer Costa Rican president.
1947.- Porfirio Lobo Sosaformer Honduran president.
1948.- Tom WilkinsonBritish actor.
1959.- Bernd SchusterGerman former footballer and coach.
1962.- Ralph FiennesEnglish actor.
1965.- Sergi LopezSpanish actor.
DEATHS
1870.- Gustavo Adolfo BecquerSpanish poet.
1880.- Mary Ann Evans‘George Eliot‘, British writer.
1969.- Joseph von SternbergAmerican filmmaker of Austrian origin.
1989.- Samuel BeckettIrish writer.
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2007.- Julien GracqFrench writer.
2014.- Joe CockerBritish rock singer.
2018.- Roberto Suazo Córdovaformer Honduran president.
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