On August 3, but from 1979, military coup in Equatorial Guinea against President Macías, led by his Minister of Defense, Teodoro Obiang Nguema.
Other ephemeris:
1492.- Suca del Puerto de Palos de la Frontera (Huelva) The Flotilla under Columbus and composed of the three caravels (“Pint” “Girl” and “Santa María”), a trip that culminated in the discovery of America.
Newsletter return to the world
1778.- Inauguration of the SCALA in Milan, with the opera “Europe Riconosciuta”, by Antonio Salieri.
1798.- The battle of the Nile concludes after two days in which British Admiral Nelson forces the remains of the French fleet to surrender.
1904.- The German astronomer, Max Wolf, discovers the asteroid (540) Rosamunda.
1936.- The African-American sprinter Jesse Owen wins his first gold medal in Berlin in Berlin he would achieve in the Olympic Games in the middle of Germany Nazi.
1949.- The National Basketball Association (NBA) is officially born.
1952.- The Helsinki Olympic Games are closed, in which Russia participates for the first time after 40 years.
1958.- The American nuclear submarine “Nautilus” crosses for the first time the North Pole and crosses from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic.
1969.- Blood disturbances in Belfast, which lasted 16 days.
1992.-Estrare in Los Angeles of the film directed and starring Clint Eastwood “Without forgiveness.”
2005.- A coup d’etat in Mauritania overthrows President Maaouya Ould Sid’ahmed Taya.
2011.-Sitness, in an unprecedented event in the Arab world, the trial against the ex-president Egyptian, Hosni Mubarak, which appears on a stretcher.
2014.- The Islamic State (EI) perpetrates a massacre against the Yazidi minority in Sinyar (Iraq) with the murder of 5,000 men and the kidnapping and violation of 7,000 women and children.
2016.- The American Aviation regulator first authorizes a private company to launch a mission to the Moon.
2019.- A young man kills 22 people in a shooting at a mall of El Paso (Texas).
2020.- Juan Carlos I announces by letter to his son Felipe VI who leaves Spain to reside abroad after going to light business and hidden accounts in Switzerland.
2021.- The Spanish Council of Ministers approves the lease of the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza collection for fifteen years and 97.5 million euros.
2022.- American scientists restore blood circulation and other cellular functions in pigs an hour after they died, according to Nature magazine.
Births
1823.- Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, Spanish composer.
1872.- Haakon VI First King of Norway.
1904.- Dolores del Río, Mexican actress.
1925.- Alain Touraine, French sociologist and writer.
1926.- Tony Bennett, American singer.
1940.- Martin Sheen, American actor.
1941.- Martha Stewart, Magnate of American television communication.
1944.- Nino Bravo, Spanish singer-songwriter.
1954.- Juan Antonio Corbalán, Spanish basis.
1986.- Carlota Casiraghi, firstborn of Princess Carolina de Monaco.
2024.- Magnet of Jordan, firstborn of the heir prince Hussein and Princess Rajwa.
Deaths
1924.- Joseph Conrad, British writer.
1954.- Gabrielle Claudine Colette, French writer.
1964.- Flannery O’Connor, American writer.
1977.- Makarios III, Orthodox Archbishop and Politician Chipriot.
1986.- Beryl Markham, first pilot woman who flew over the Atlantic Ocean.
1995.- Ida Lupino, British actress.
2008.- Alexander Solzhenitsin, Russian writer and Nobel Prize for Literature.
2011.- Bubba Smith, actor and former star of the National Football League.
2017.- Ángel Nieto, Expileot of Spanish motorcycling.
2020.- John Hume, NoriRlandés politician.
2023.- Ramón Lobo, Spanish journalist.
