In a July 23but from 1967, racial disturbances triggered by police actions against the black population caused 43 dead in the American city of Detroit (Michigan). Thousands of buildings caught fire for five days and assaulted businesses. The National Guard and the Army intervened.
Other ephemeris
1888.- The revolutionary anthem ‘for the first timeThe International ‘with music by Pierre Degeyter with previous poems by Eugène Pottier, for the choir ‘La Lyre des Travailleurs’, in a cafe in Lille (France).
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1903.- The American Ford Sell your first car, Model A.
1921.- I National Congress of China Communist Party (PCC) in Shanghai.
1930.- Earthquake in Irpinia (Italy), with around 1,400 dead and large material damage.
1961.- A group of young people, headed by Carlos Fonseca Borge, founded the Sandinista National Liberation Front.
1973.- The US president Richard Nixon He refuses to deliver the recordings involved in the case ‘Watergate‘To the Senate Commission that investigated it or the special prosecutor.
1985.- The President Li Xiannjan It makes the first visit of a head of state from China to the United States, where he interviews the president Ronald Reagan.
1992.- The prime ministers Slovak and Czech, Vladimir Mechaniar and Vaclav Klaus, agrees in Bratislava the bill for the division of Czechoslovakia in two republics.
1999.- King Hasan II of Morocco dies and Prince Sidi Mohamed, who reigns like Mohamed VI.
2002.- Rowan Williams He is chosen Archbishop of Canterbury and in October happens to George Carey as head of the Anglican Church.
2021.- Inauguration of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Gamespostponed by pandemic, with strong restrictions.
2024.- The US stops a Ismael “El Mayo” Zambadaco -founder of the Sinaloa cartel, and Joaquín Guzmán López, son of drug trafficker Chapo Guzmán.
.- Two dead Spaniards and two other missing in the fishing wreck ‘Argos Georgia’ In Malvinas.
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Births
1886.- Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish writer.
1892.- Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia.
1920.- Amalia Rodrigues, singer of Portuguese Fados.
1931.- Arata Isozaki, Japanese architect.
1933.- Richard George Rogers, British architect.
1944.- María Joao Pires, Portuguese pianist.
1967.- Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor.
1974.- Maurice Greene, American athlete.
1976.- Judith Polgar, Hungarian exajedrecista.
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Deaths
1757.- Domenico Scarlatti, Italian musician.
1878.- Miguel Hilarión Eslava, Spanish composer.
1932.- Alberto Santos Dumont, Brazilian pioneer aviator.
1948.- David Wark Griffith, American filmmaker.
1966.- Montgomery Clift, American actor.
2000.- Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish writer.
2011.- Amy Winehouse, British singer.
2012.- Rally Ride, first American woman who traveled to space.
