In a January 6th, but in 2021, the assault on the Capitol in Washington, hundreds of followers of the then president, Republican Donald Trump, broke into Congress while the electoral victory of Democrat Joe Biden was being ratified. There were five deaths.
OTHER ANIMALS
1542.- Francisco de Montejo founds the city of Meridatoday capital of Yucatan State (Mexico).
1763.- Without a declaration of war, 11 English and Portuguese ships attack Montevideobut they can’t take it.
1838.- Samuel Morse and his partner, Alfred Vailmake the first public demonstration of the Telegraph.
1912.- New Mexico becomes part of USA as forty-seventh State.
1929.- He King Alexander I of Yugoslavia establishes the dictatorship after suspending the Constitution and dissolving the National Assembly.
1944.- Carmen Laforet wins the I Nadal Award of a novel for his work ‘Nothing‘.
1967.- Inaugurated on Angostura bridgeabout him Orinocoin Venezuela.
1968.- Foundation of Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina.
1985.- Ends the ‘operation moses‘, which brought to Israel 8,000 Jews from Ethiopia.
1992.- The company AT&T presents the videophonefirst phone with video screen.
1994.- Paraguay enter the GATT as the 115th member country.
2007.- The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbasdeclares the militia outlawed Hamas.
2009.- Israel bombs three schools and a clinic UN in Loop causing more than 40 deaths.
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2014.- Twenty-six states in the north and northeast of USA are affected by a polar cold wave with the lowest temperatures in more than a century, below minus 30 degrees Celsius. The storm begins to retreat on the 8th and leaves around twenty dead.
2016.- North Korea announces the detonation of a hydrogen nuclear bombalthough experts doubt it.
2018.- The Iranian tanker’Sanchi‘collides in the sea of Eastern China with a Chinese freighter. The tanker sinks days later with a result of 32 sailors dead.
2019.- At least 40 dead in the collapse of a goldmine in Afghanistan.
2023.- Daniel Barenboim resignation as musical director of the Staatsoper of Berlin for health reasons.
BIRTH
1412.- Joan of ArcFrench heroine.
1795.- Anselme PayenFrench chemist, physicist and mathematician.
1833.- Gustavo DoréFrench illustrator.
1936.- Julio María Sanguinettiformer president of Uruguay.
1938.- Adriano CelentanoItalian singer.
1942.- Rosa María MateoSpanish journalist.
1944.- Rolf Martin ZinkernagelSwiss immunopathologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1996.
1953.- Malcolm YoungScottish guitarist and composer, co-founder of the band AC/DC.
1954.- Anthony MinghellaBritish filmmaker.
1955.- Rowan Atkinson‘Mr.Bean‘, British actor.
1972.- Filippo Neviani‘Nek‘, Italian singer.
1981.- Rinko KikuchiJapanese actress.
1982.- Eddie RedmayneBritish actor.
1986.- Irina ShaykRussian model.
DEATHS
1884.- Gregor MendelAugustinian monk and biologist.
1905.- José María Gabriel y GalánSpanish poet.
1919.- Theodore RooseveltUnited States’s president.
1974.- David Alfaro SiqueirosMexican painter.
1980.- Nicanor VillaltaSpanish bullfighter.
1993.- Dizzy GillespieAmerican jazz trumpeter.
2004.- Francesco ScavulloAmerican fashion photographer.
2006.- ‘Ramona’Mexican guerrilla, commander of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).
2011.- Gary MasonBritish boxer.
2013.- Enrique MenesesSpanish photojournalist.
2014.- Marina GinestaFrench communist militant, icon of the Spanish Civil War for a photograph of a militiawoman in Barcelona.
2015.- Rene of the NutCuban caricaturist.
2016.- Alfredo ‘Chocolate’ ArmenterosCuban trumpeter.
2017.- Ricardo PigliaArgentine writer.
2019.- Jose Ramon Fernandezhe ‘Gallego Fernandez‘, hero of the Cuban Revolution.
2020.- Antonio Mongiello Ricci‘napo‘, Argentine graphic artist and comedian.
2022.- Sidney PoitierAmerican actor.
2023.- Gianluca Vialliformer Italian soccer player.
