A July 20 of 1969 the human being reached the moon and on the same day in 2015, Cuba and the United States reestablished diplomatic relations after 54 years of rupture.
1221.- The first stone of the cathedral of Burgos, in Spain, is laid.
1881.- The Sioux chief ‘Sitting Bull’ surrenders to the US Army at Fort Buford (North Dakota).
1897.- Inaugural session of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, the first of its kind in South America.
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1923.- Pancho Villa is assassinated in Mexico.
1933.- The Third Reich signs the Concordat with the Vatican.
1944.- Failed attack against Hitler in Rastenburg in Operation ‘Valkyrie’.
1948.- Syngman Rhee is elected first president of the Republic of South Korea, after the division of the peninsula into two countries.
1949.- The first Arab-Israeli War ends, which began in 1948 when the state of Israel was created.
1951.- Abdullah, king of Jordan, is shot to death in Jerusalem when he entered the Omar mosque.
1971.- Discovery of the Lady of Baza (Granada), one of the most outstanding archaeological finds of the 20th century in Spain.
1974.- Turkish troops invade Cyprus in response to the coup d’état by Greek National Guard officers.
1976.- NASA’s Viking I probe, the first spacecraft to land on Mars.
1979.- The first Sandinista Government takes power after the defeat of the Somoza National Guard in Nicaragua.
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1985.- Discovery of the wreck of the Spanish galleon ‘Our Lady of Atocha’ off Florida (United States). It was sunk in 1622, with precious metals and jewels.
1988.- Bolivian Roberto Suárez Gómez, ‘the king of cocaine’, is arrested near the border with Brazil.
1992.- Vaclav Havel leaves the presidency of Czechoslovakia after the Slovaks blocked his re-election in Parliament.
2009.- Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 7 years and six months in prison for corruption in the payment of 15 million dollars to his advisor Vladimiro Montesinos.
2017.- The remains of the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí are exhumed to extract his DNA for a paternity lawsuit.
2020.- The 8-year prison sentence for bribery of former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa, accused of the ‘Bribery 2012-2016’ case, was ratified.
2023.- Google presents Gemini, its artificial intelligence.
1304.- Francesco Petrarca, Italian poet.
1822.- Gregor Mendel, father of modern genetics.
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1919.- Edmund Hillary, New Zealand pioneer in climbing Everest.
1925.- Jacques Delors, former French president of the European Commission.
1933.- Cormac McCarthy, American film writer and screenwriter.
1938.- Natalie Wood, American actress.
1947.- Carlos Santana, Mexican guitarist.
1966.- Enrique Peña Nieto, former Mexican president.
1973.- Haakon Magnus, crown prince of Norway.
1980.- Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian model.
1937.- Guillermo Marconi, Italian and father of the wireless telegraph.
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1973.- Bruce Lee, American actor.
1990.- Sergei Paradjanov, Soviet filmmaker.
2004.- Antonio Gades, Spanish dancer.
2011.- Lucien Freud, British painter.
2013.- Helen Thomas, American journalist.
