In a november twobut from 1955, 70 years ago, American researchers Carlton-Schwerdt and Schaffer They obtain the virus that causes poliomyelitis in crystalline form.
OTHER ANIMALS
1769.- The Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolá discovers the Gulf of San Francisco, in California.
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1789.- The National Assembly of France decrees the nationalization of the assets of the clergy.
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1907.- The British writer Joseph Rudyard Kipling is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1930.- Ras Tafari Makonnen and Itigue Menem are crowned emperors of Ethiopia. The emperor adopted the name Haile Selassie “Power of the Holy Trinity, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
1936.- The British BBC television service is inaugurated, becoming the first network in the world to offer daily programming.
1948.- Harry S. Truman is elected thirty-third president of the United States.
1964.- Prince Faisal is proclaimed king of Saudi Arabia after the abdication of his brother Saud.
1975.- The film director and writer Pier Paolo Passolini is murdered in an open field in Ostia (Italy).
1976.- Democrat Jimmy Carter is elected 39th president of the United States.
1983.- The referendum is held in South Africa to reform the Constitution, which expands the political rights of Asians and mestizos, but not of blacks, who make up 73% of the population.
1988.- The Morris worm, the first virus on the Internet, is launched from the American Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
1990.- The Parliament of Mozambique approves the country’s new Constitution, which enshrines multipartyism and a market economy.
2000.- The first expedition of two Russian cosmonauts, Sergei Krikaliov and Yuri Gidzenko, and an American astronaut, Bill Shepherd, arrives at the International Space Station (ISS).
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2004.- Republican George W. Bush is elected president of the United States.
2015.- The case called Vatileaks2 breaks out in the Vatican, regarding the theft and disclosure of classified Vatican documents. A Spanish priest and an Italian citizen were arrested.
2021.- The newspaper “The Daily Star”, one of the last written in English in the country, closes in Lebanon, after almost 70 years of its founding.
2023.- “Now and Then” is released, the last song by ‘The Beatles’ which, thanks to Artificial Intelligence, recovers the voice of John Lennon and the guitar of George Harrison.
BIRTH
1906.- Luchino Visconti, Italian filmmaker.
1913.- Burt Lancaster, American actor.
– Carmen Amaya, Spanish dancer.
1937.- María Fernanda D’Ocón, Spanish actress.
1938.- Sofia of Greece, queen emeritus of Spain.
1963.- Calixto Bieito, Spanish playwright.
1970.- Diego David Domínguez González, “David Delfín”, Spanish designer, painter and actor.
DEATHS
1950.- George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize winner 1925.
1975.- Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian filmmaker.
2003.- Fernando Vizcaíno Casas, Spanish writer and lawyer.
2004.- Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker.
2009.- José Luis López Vázquez, Spanish actor.
2018.- Álvaro de Luna Blanco, Spanish actor.
2019.- Marie Laforêt, French singer and actress.
2024.- Alan Rachins, American actor.
