In a January 28but of 1855is inaugurated on panama railway. The locomotive’Gorgon‘ makes the first interoceanic journey, between the Atlantic and Pacific.
OTHER ANIMALS
1521.- Begins the Worms dietan assembly of the princes of the Holy Roman Empire chaired by Charles Vin which it was ordered Martin Luther to renounce his ideas, which he refused.
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1820.- A Russian naval expedition led by Faddéy Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev reaches the coast of the Antarctic continent.
1871.- Franco-Prussian War: Paris capitulates to the siege of the troops of Prussia.
1887.- Construction work begins on the eiffel tower in Paris.
1918.- It is based on the Soviet Union he Red Army under the impulse of Leon Trotsky.
1930.- The resignation of Miguel Primo de Rivera as president of Spanish government ends ten years of dictatorship.
1958.- The Danish company Lego patents its construction game plastic parts.
1979.- The writer Carmen Conde reads his entrance speech Royal Spanish Academy of Languagebecoming the first woman in said institution. He occupied the ‘K’ armchair.
1985.- A group of artists records the song ‘We are the world‘, which reached number 1 on the sales charts and whose profits were destined to combat the hunger in Ethiopia.
1986.- The American space shuttle Challenger explodes after taking off Cape Canaveral and its seven crew members die.
2013.- The queen Beatrice of Holland abdicates in favor of his son William.
2019.- USA accuses the Chinese technology giant Huawei of bank fraud and industrial espionage.
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BIRTH
1853.- Jose MartiCuban independence writer and politician.
1887.- Arthur RubinsteinAmerican pianist of Polish origin.
1892.- Ernst LubitschGerman-born American filmmaker.
1903.- Kathleen LonsdaleBritish crystallographer, first woman to be admitted to the Royal Society.
1931.- Lucia BoseItalian actress.
1936.- Ismail KadareAlbanian writer.
1940.- Carlos SlimMexican tycoon.
[1945.- Robert WyattBritish musician.
1946.- Carlos CanoSpanish singer and musical composer.
1953.- Gerardo HerreroSpanish film director and producer.
1955.- Nicolas Sarkozyformer president of the French republic.
1964.- Corinna Larsen (Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein), German businesswoman.
1978.- Gianluigi BuffonItalian soccer player.
1981.- Elijah WoodAmerican actor (‘The Lord of the Rings’).
1994.- Maluma (Juan Luis Londoño), Colombian singer.
DEATHS
1547.- Henry VIIIking of England.
1913.- Segismundo MoretSpanish politician.
1928.- Vicente Blasco IbáñezSpanish writer.
1939.- William Butler YeatsIrish poet.
1996.- Joseph A. BrodskyRussian writer of American nationality, Nobel Prize in Literature.
2002.- Astrid LindgrenSwedish writer, creator of ‘Pipi Longstocking’.
2008.- ChristodulosOrthodox archbishop of Athens.
2021.- Guillermo GaleoteSpanish politician.
2023.- Adolfo PachecoColombian musician.
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