On January 23, but in 1994, 30 years ago, a commando of the < b>Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC) breaks into a festival in the La Chinita neighborhood, in the town of Apartadó (department of Antioquia) and murders 35 people, an event known as the La Chinita massacre.

OTHER ANIMALS

1556.- An earthquake devastates the Chinese province of Shaanxi, causing 830,000 victims.
1826.- The fortified port of El Callao (Peru) surrenders, the last stronghold of Spanish resistance in continental America.
1878.- King Alfonso XII married his cousin María de las Mercedes de Orleáns y Borbón, in Madrid.
1896.- The German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen performs his first demonstration of X-rays before the Wurzburg Physical Medical Society. He had discovered X-rays by chance on November 8, 1895.
1904.- The Norwegian port city of Alesund was destroyed by fire.
1950.- The Israeli parliament declares Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
1954.- The writer Ernest Hemingway survives two plane crashes that occurred in consecutive days. The first, on January 23, on a flight from Nairobi to the Congo, and the second, the next day when he took another plane that exploded during takeoff.
1958.- A military pronouncement overthrows the dictatorship of President Marcos Pérez Jiménez in Venezuela. Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal becomes President.
1960.- The Swiss Jacques Piccard, together with the American Don Walsh, and aboard the bathyscaphe Trieste, reached the record depth of 10,911 meters, in the Mariana Islands Trench.
1983.- Premiere in the United States of the television series ‘The A Team’.
1986.- 38 people die in the fire of a luxury hotel in New Delhi.
2003.- Ivory Coast is attacked by the regular Liberian Army and asks France for help.
2004.– The Moroccan Parliament unanimously approves the new ‘Mudawana’ Family Code, which improves the rights of women and children.
2004.- The World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forgive 4.5 billion dollars of debt to Nicaragua.
2007.- Penélope Cruz receives the first Oscar nomination from a Spanish actress for her role in ‘Volver’.
2012.- The first Egyptian Parliament after the Hosni Mubarak era was inaugurated, with 70% of the seats in Islamist hands.
2014.- The Government of South Sudan and the rebels sign a ceasefire agreement in Addis Ababa.
2019.- The president of the Venezuelan Parliament, Juan Guaidó, proclaims himself interim president of the country.
2020.- China confines the city of Wuhan (11 million inhabitants) in the first coronavirus confinement in the world.
.- The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague orders precautionary measures to protect the Rohingya in Myanmar.

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BIRTH

1783.- Henri Beyle, Stendhal, French writer.
1832.- Edouard Manet, French impressionist painter.
1918.- Gertrude Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1988.
1928.- Jeanne Moreau, French actress.
1930.- Derek Walcott, poet born on the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.
1950.- Luis Alberto Spinetta, Argentine musician.
1954.- Franco de Vita, Venezuelan singer-songwriter.
1955.- Ramón Lobo, Spanish journalist.
1957.- Carolina Grimaldi, princess of Monaco.
1962.- Elvira Lindo, Spanish writer and journalist, creator of the literary character ‘Manolito Gafotas’.
1992.- Jack Reynor, American actor.