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On January 12, 2010, 15 years ago, an earthquake of magnitude 7.2 on the Richter scale, with an epicenter just 15 kilometers from Port-au-Princeshook Haiti and caused more than 300,000 deaths, 350,000 injuries and around 1.5 million people were left homeless.

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OTHER ANIMALS

  • 1899.- The Argentine training frigate ‘Presidente Sarmiento’ undertakes its first circumnavigation trip.
  • 1936.- The Spanish-Cuban aviator Antonio Menéndez Peláez takes off from the Camagüey airport (Cuba) to make a solo transatlantic flight to Seville (southern Spain), where he arrived on February 14.
  • 1969.- Led Zeppelin releases its first album.
  • 1981.- The first episode of the television series ‘Dynasty’ is broadcast.
  • 1988.- The first ‘test tube’ quintuplets in the world are born in Michigan (USA).
  • 1998.- Nineteen European countries, including Spain, sign in Paris the Council of Europe protocol that prohibits the cloning of human beings, the first international legal text on this matter.
  • 1999.- American singer Britney Spears releases her first album ‘…Baby One More Time’.
  • 2005.- The United States announces the end of the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
  • .- NASA launches the ‘Deep Impact’ mission whose objective is to analyze the composition of comet Tempel 1.
  • 2006.- More than three hundred pilgrims die in Mecca due to an avalanche.
  • .- The Turkish Ali Agca, who in 1981 tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II, is released due to a miscalculation, although eight days later he returns to prison.
  • 2009.- The first transaction is made on the bitcoin digital currency network.
  • 2015.- Cuba completes the release of 53 political prisoners agreed with the United States.
  • 2016.- A suicide bomber from the Islamic State (IS) kills ten German tourists near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul (Türkiye).
  • 2017.- The US ends the ‘wet foot/dry foot’ policy for Cubans, which allowed them to obtain permanent residence one year after arriving, even illegally.
  • .- Release of the video clip ‘Despacito’, a song by Luis Fonsi with Daddy Yankee, which became the most viewed music video on YouTube.

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BIRTH

  • 1628.- Charles Perrault, French writer of children’s stories.
  • 1716.- Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish scientist, military man and sailor.
  • 1907.- Sergei Korolev, Ukrainian engineer, considered the father of the Soviet space program.
  • 1933.- Liliana Cavani, Italian film director.
  • 1949.- Haruki Murakami, Japanese writer.
  • 1964.- Jeff Bezos, American businessman, founder of Amazon.
  • 1968.- Mauro da Silva Gomes, former Brazilian soccer player.
  • 1972.- Quique Dacosta, Spanish chef.
  • 1995.- Nathy Peluso, Argentine singer.
  • 1998.- Nathan Gamble, American actor.

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DEATHS

  • 1963.- Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Spanish writer.
  • 1976.- Agatha Christie, British writer of detective novels.
  • 2003.- Leopoldo Galtieri, former president of Argentina.
  • 2004.- Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician.
  • 2008.- Angel González, Spanish poet.
  • .- Adriano González León, Venezuelan writer.
  • 2017.- William Peter Blatty, American writer and screenwriter, author of ‘The Exorcist’.
  • 2021.- Enrique Pineda Barnet, Cuban filmmaker.
  • 2023.- Lisa Marie Presley, American singer, daughter of Elvis Presley.
  • 2024.- Alec Musser, American model and actor.



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