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1810.- The first Government Junta is established in Buenos Aires after the last viceroy of Spain was deposed in Río de la Plata, an event that is celebrated in Argentina as the ‘Day of the May Revolution’.
1887.- A fire destroys the Paris Comic Opera Theater and causes the death of 84 people.
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1895.- The British writer Oscar Wilde is sentenced to two years of hard labor for his homosexuality.
1937.- Inauguration in Paris of the Universal Exhibition.
1940.- The “Bombonera”, the famous stadium of the Argentine soccer club Boca Juniors, was inaugurated in Buenos Aires.
1946.- Present-day Jordan becomes the independent Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan, with Abdullah I as first king.
1963.- Signature in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) of the founding act of the Organization of African Unity.
1969.- The film ‘Midnight Cowboy’, by John Schlesinger, is released, starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman.
1973.- The album ‘Tubular Bells’ by British composer and musician Mike Oldfield is published.
1975.- Miguel Delibes reads his entrance speech at the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE).
1979.- 276 people die when a plane crashes at the Chicago airport.
1993.- The UN Security Council approves the creation of an International War Crimes Tribunal in the former Yugoslavia.
2002.- All 225 occupants of a China Airlines Boeing 747 plane die when it crashes in the Taiwan Strait.
2003.- Néstor Carlos Kirchner takes office as president of Argentina.
2011.- The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) announces the eradication of rinderpest in the world.
2014.- The Podemos party bursts onto the Spanish political scene, winning 5 seats in the elections to the European Parliament.
2019.- Russia launches the atomic icebreaker ‘Ural’, 173 meters long, 34 meters wide and 33,500 tons, to navigate the Arctic route.
2020.- The African-American George Floyd dies from asphyxiation in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA), after being subdued by a local police officer, an event that unleashed a large wave of protests.
2023.- The founder of the far-right group Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, is sentenced to 18 years in prison for the assault on the US Capitol.
2025.- Parliamentary and regional elections: Venezuela’s electoral body declares Chavismo the winner in 23 of the 24 regions.
1889.- Igor Sikorsky, aviation pioneer, Russian nationalized American.
1922.- Enrico Berlinguer, Italian communist leader.
1939.- Ian Murray McKellen, British actor.
1951.- François Bayrou, former French Prime Minister.
1953.- Daniel Passarella, former soccer player and soccer coach, Argentine.
1969.- Anne Heche, American actress.
1973.- Mikel Odriozola, Spanish athlete, five-time champion of Spain.
1975.- Keiko Sofía Fujimori Higuchi, Peruvian politician.
1681.- Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright.
1899.- Emilio Castelar, Spanish politician and orator.
1954.- Robert Capa, Hungarian photographer.
2001.- Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez ‘Korda’, Cuban photographer, author of the legendary photo of Che Guevara.
2010.- Gabriel Vargas, Mexican painter and caricaturist.
2014.- Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski, last president of communist Poland.
2019.- Joaquín Sanz Gadea, Spanish doctor awarded the Prince of Asturias for Concord.
2022.- Eduardo Lizalde Chávez, Mexican poet.
2023.- Daniel Toro, Argentine singer-songwriter.
2024.- Grayson Murray, American golfer.
