In a , but in 1992, the Government and the Salvadoran guerrillas signed the peace agreement in Mexico, after 12 years of civil war and 75,000 deaths. Said agreement had been reached on December 31, 1991 in New York with UN mediation.

OTHER ANIMALS

1556.- Carlos I gives to his son, the future Philip IIthe crown of Castile and Aragon with all his possessions.

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1906.- Begins the Algeciras Conference about the fate of Moroccobetween Spain, France, Germany and England.

1962.- Coup d’état in the Dominican Republic who deposes the president Joaquin Balaguer and establishes a Governing Board.

1969.- Jan Palachstudent of Philosophyfire catches in the Wenceslas Squareof Praguein protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. He died three days later.

.- The USSR performs the first docking maneuver in orbit of two manned spacecraft, the Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5.

1975.- Signature on Lisbon of the agreement for the independence of Angola.

1987.- Paratroopers mutiny at the air base Taura Ecuadorian president kidnapped for hours Leon Febres and demand the freedom of the coup general Frank Vargasto which the Government agrees.

.- Forced resignation of Hu Yaobang as secretary of Chinese Communist Party. It happened to him Zhao Ziyang.

2001.- The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo Laurent Kabila He is murdered by his personal guard in an attempt to coup.

2003.- Take off, from Cape Canaveral (Florida, USA), he space shuttle Columbia, which 16 days later disintegrated in space shortly before landing. All seven of her crew died.

2006.- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf takes office as president of Liberia.

2007.- More than a hundred dead in a chain of attacks in Baghdad.

2008.- The oil company Totalthe shipowner and manager of the tanker ‘Erika‘ and the Italian certification society Fight are sentenced to pay 192 million euros in compensation for the black tide which caused the ship to sink in 1999 on the French Atlantic coast.

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2015.- USA eases the economic embargo on Cuba.

2016.- Tsai Ing-wenof the independentist Democratic Progressive Party (PDP), elected first woman president of Taiwan.

2018.- In Chilihe Pope Francisco apologize for the child abuse by the Chilean clergy.

2020.- Mikhail Mishustinnew prime minister of Russia.

2022.- The Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic is deported from Australia (where he had gone to play the Open) for his refusal to be vaccinated against covid-19.

2023.- The head of Cosa Nostra (the mafia Sicily), Matteo Messina Denarois detained in Italy after being on the run for 30 years.

.- The Brazilian Government of Lula da Silva revokes a questioned measure of his predecessor, Jair Bolsonarowhich allowed the wood felling in indigenous reserves.

BIRTH

1901.- Fulgencio Batistaformer Cuban president.

1905.- Ernesto HalffterSpanish composer.

1918.- Inga Fischer-HjalmarsSwedish physicist.

1928.- Pilar LorengarSpanish soprano.

1932.- Diane FosseyAmerican zoologist.

1933.- Susan SontangAmerican writer and film director.

1941.- Christine TrumanBritish tennis player.

1942.- Nicole FontaineFrench politics.

1946.- Kabir BediSandokan‘, Indian actor.

1948.- John CarpenterAmerican film director, screenwriter and composer.

1957.- Ricardo DarinArgentine actor.

1959.- Helen Folasade AduSad‘, British-Nigerian singer.

1971.- Sergi BrugueraSpanish tennis player.

1974.- Kate MossBritish model.

1980.- Lin-Manuel MirandaAmerican actor, composer and rapper of Puerto Rican origin.

nineteen ninety six.- Zhou QiChinese basketball player.

DEATHS

1794.- Edward GibbonEnglish historian.

1942.- Carole LombardAmerican actress.

1950.- Gustav KruppGerman industrialist and financier.

1957.- Arturo ToscaniniItalian conductor.

1963.- Gilardo GilardiArgentine composer.

1970.- Francisco Gutiérrez Cossío (Pancho Cossío), Spanish painter.

1980.- Benjamin PalenciaSpanish painter.

1982.- Ramon J. SenderSpanish writer.

2008.- Hone TuwhareNew Zealand poet of Maori descent.

.- Pierre LambertFrench politician.

2009.- Andrew WyethAmerican painter.

.- John MortimerBritish writer.

2011.- Augusto AlgueroSpanish composer.

2012.- Gustav LeonhardtDutch musician.

2017.- Eugene CernanAmerican, last astronaut to walk on the Moon.

2018.- Ruben ‘Panadero’ DiazArgentinean soccer player.

2019.- Jack BogleAmerican financier, founder of the Vanguard investment group.

2021.- Phil SpectorAmerican musician and producer.

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2022.- Ibrahim Boubacar Keitaformer president of Mali.

2023.- Gina LollobrigidaItalian actress.

.- Luisa Josefina HernandezMexican writer.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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