In other 26 of Januarybut in 1926, the Scottish engineer John Logie Baird presented to the Royal Institution a device called television, capable of transmitting images over a distance.
OTHER ANIMALS
1500.- The Spanish navigator Vicente Yáñez Pinzón reaches the coast of today Brazilnearly Pernambuco.
1531.- A earthquake shake Lisbon. It is estimated that around 30,000 people could have died.
1827.- Peru constitutes an independent republic.
1837.- Michigan becomes the 26th state of USA.
1924.- The city of St. Petersburg is renamed Leningrad as a tribute to Leninwho had died five days earlier.
1934.- Pact by which Germany and Poland They mutually obligate each other to renounce all acts of aggression for 10 years.
1944.- Second World War: Argentina breaks diplomatic relations with Germany and Japan.
1952.- Cairo live the call ‘black saturday‘, a day of riots with fires in the center of the city against properties of the British and the Egyptian upper class.
1983.- Uchuraccay Massacre: eight journalists, a guide and a community member are murdered in the town of Uchuraccayin the region of Ayacuchoin Peru.
1988.- Premiere in Broadway from the musical ‘The Phantom of the Opera‘.
1993.- Vaclav Havel He is elected, by Parliament, the first president of the independent Czech Republic.
nineteen ninety five.- Peru and Ecuador engage in an undeclared war (the so-called Cenepa war) due to border differences, which lasts until February 28.
2001.- More than 20,000 deaths due to a earthquake with epicenter in the northwestern Indian state of gujarat.
2004.- About 200 people die in the fire and subsequent sinking of a river ferry in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
2006.- The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo of Argentina perform their last ‘resistance march‘, a protest they had been carrying out since 1981.
2011.- 23 workers die due to burst in a coal mine of the Colombian municipality of Sardinata.
2012.- Efrain Rios Monttformer dictator Guatemalan, is prosecuted by the Guatemalan justice system accused of genocide and crimes against humanity.
2013.- The social democrat Milos Zeman is elected president of the Czech Republicin the first direct presidential elections in the country’s democratic history.
2014.- The National Constituent Assembly Tunisia approves new Constitutionthe second since its independence and the first since the fall of the dictator Zin el Abidin Ben Aliin 2011.
2015.- Alexis Tsipras sworn in as prime minister Greece.
.- Eleven soldiers (9 French and 2 Greek) die when a plane crashes F-16 fighter Greek who participated in a course of the NATO at the air base The plains (Albacete, Spain).
2017.- He British government presents in the Parliament the bill to authorize the ‘brexit‘, the exit of the United Kingdom of the European Union.
2018.- Former president of the Supreme Court murdered Guatemala, Jose Arturo Sierra.
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2020.- The former basketball player Kobe Bryantone of his daughters, and seven other people die when their helicopter crashes in Calabasasnorthwest of The Angels (California, USA).
2021.- Italian Prime Minister resigns Giuseppe Conte.
.- Estoniawith the inauguration as prime minister of Kaja Kallasbecomes the first country in which the head of state and government, both elected positions, are in the hands of women (Kersti Kaljulaid and Kaja Kallas).
.- The world exceeds 100 million cases of covid-19according to the count of the Johns Hopkins University.
BIRTH
1763.- Jean Baptiste BernadotteFrench marshal who became king of Sweden and Norway.
1813.- Juan Pablo Duartemilitary and politician, considered the father of the Dominican Republic.
1941.- Joan A. SteitzAmerican biochemist.
1880.- Douglas MacArthurAmerican general.
1884.- Roy Chapman AndrewsAmerican explorer and naturalist.
1909.- Alexander KingBritish scientist.
1918.- Nicolae Ceaucescuformer president of Romania.
1921.- Akio MoritaJapanese physicist and businessman, co-founder of Sony.
1925.- Paul NewmanAmerican film actor and director.
1928.- Roger VadimFrench film director.
1935.- Paula RegoPortuguese painter.
1944.- Angela DavisAmerican political activist.
.- Louis GalloisFrench businessman.
[1945- Jacqueline du PreBritish cellist.
1947.- Robert CailliauBelgian engineer, one of the pioneers of the internet.
.- Michel SardouFrench singer.
1950.- Jorg HaiderAustrian politician.
1953.- Anders RasmussenDanish politician.
1958.- Ellen DegeneresAmerican actress and television host.
1962.- Oscar Alfredo Ruggeriformer Argentine soccer player.
1963.- Jose MourinhoPortuguese football coach.
1981.- Gustavo DudamelVenezuelan orchestra conductor.
.- Colin O’DonoghueIrish actor.
1990.- Peter SaganSlovak cyclist.
DEATHS
1823.- Edward JennerBritish doctor.
1973.- Edward G. RobinsonAmerican actor of Romanian origin.
1992.- Jose FerrerPuerto Rican actor.
2000.- Jean-Claude IzzoFrench writer.
2004.- Joaquin GiannuzziArgentine poet.
2008.- George HabashPalestinian politician, founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
2014.- Jose Emilio PachecoMexican writer.
2016.- Abe VigodaAmerican actor.
2019.- Michael LegrandFrench composer.
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2020.- Kobe BryantAmerican basketball player.
.- Louis NirenbergCanadian-American mathematician.
.- Robert Castle Schoen‘Bob Shane‘, American musician.
2021.- Carlos Holmes TrujilloColombian politician.
.- Lars NorénSwedish playwright.
