In a January 24but from the year 1600, the Dutch Sebald de Weertin command of the ship Geloof, discovers three islands that he names Sebaldinas and that They would later be called Malvinas.
OTHER ANIMALS
1958.- British and American scientists announce that a controlled nuclear fusion has been achieved.
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1984.- Apple launches its first Mac computer, the Macintosh 128K, which includes a graphical interface and mouse.
1986.- NASA’s Voyager 2 probe approaches the planet Uranus and discovers ten previously unknown moons.
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1995.- Russia launches, for the first time, a Kosmos-3M carrier rocket with three satellites, one Russian, one American and one Swedish.
2002.- Former Lebanese minister Eili Hobeika, leader of the Christian militias and considered one of those responsible for the Sabra and Chatila massacres (1982), dies in an attack in Beirut.
2008.- The French bank Société Génerale announces that one of its operators has caused the entity a fraud of 4.9 billion euros.
2011.- 37 people die and 180 are injured in a terrorist attack at the Moscow Domodedovo airport, claimed by the Chechen Islamist guerrilla.
2017.- Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al Abadi announces the liberation of the eastern part of the city of Mosul, which was in the hands of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).
2018.- The Brazilian Justice ratifies, and increases to 12 years, the sentence against former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for corruption.
2020.- Bolivia suspends relations with Cuba.
BIRTH
1776.- Theodor Hoffmann, German short story author.
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1915.- Robert Motherwell, American painter, leading figure of abstract expressionism.
1916.- José Ignacio Barraquer, Spanish ophthalmologist.
1919.- Juan Eduardo Zúñiga, Spanish writer, translator and literary critic.
1941.- Neil Diamond, American singer-songwriter.
1943.- Sharon Tate, American actress and model.
1947.- Mercedes Sampietro, Spanish actress.
1953.- Moon Jae-in, former president of South Korea.
1961.- Natassia Kinski, American actress.
1965.- Andreu Buenafuente, Spanish presenter and comedian.
1968.- Mónica Molina, Spanish actress and singer.
1984.- Belén Cuesta, Spanish actress.
DEATHS
1920.- Amadeo Modigliani, Italian painter.
1965.- Winston Churchill, British conservative statesman.
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1967.- Oliverio Girondo, Argentine poet.
1983.- George Cukor, American filmmaker.
1992.- Manuel Hernández Mompó, Spanish painter.
1994.- Yves Navarre, French writer.
2000.- Florencia Pérez, ‘Rosario’, Spanish dancer.
2003.- Giovanni Agnelli, Italian businessman (Fiat).
2012.- Theo Angelópulos, Greek film director.
2016.- Marvin Minsky, American scientist, pioneer of artificial intelligence.
2017.- Butch Trucks, American musician.
2018.- Jesús Glück, Spanish composer.
2019.- Elio Berhanyer, Spanish couturier.
2020.- Joan Pineda, Spanish pianist and composer specialized in cinema.
