In a October 11but from 1968, a coup d’état in Panamaled by General Omar Torrijosoverthrow the president Arnulfo Arias and a military dictatorship began that would last 21 years (1968-1989).
OTHER ANIMALS
1737.- A hurricane devastates the city of Calcutta (India) and causes 300,000 victims in one of the deadliest natural disasters of all time.
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1745.- The German clergyman and scientist Ewald Jurgen von Kleist presents the first electrical capacitor in history, the ‘Leyden bottle’.
1830.- Chopin’s piano concerto number 1 premieres at the National Theater in Warsaw.
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1854.- The poet Adela Zamudio, pioneer of feminism in Bolivia, is born, which is why Bolivian Women’s Day is celebrated on October 11.
1887.- American inventor Dorr E. Felt patents the comptometer, the first mechanical press-key calculator.
1899.- The second Boer War begins, in the current territory of South Africa, between the British Empire and the settlers of Dutch origin.
1962.- John XXIII inaugurates the Second Vatican Council.
1984.- Kathryn Sullivan, first American astronaut to perform an extravehicular activity in space.
1990.- The Mexican Octavio Paz is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1995.- The Mexican Mario Molina obtains the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
2002.- Former US President Jimmy Carter is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in trying to resolve international conflicts such as the Camp David agreements between Egypt and Israel.
2011.- Former Ukrainian prime minister and opposition leader Yulia Timoshenko is sentenced to seven years in prison for abuse of power.
2022.- The Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office constitutionally denounces President Pedro Castillo and accuses him of leading a criminal organization.
– Chile and Costa Rica are elected members of the UN Human Rights Council by beating Venezuela.
2024.- The Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo (Japanese contraction of ‘Japan Atomic Bomb Victims Organization’) wins the Nobel Peace Prize “for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and to demonstrate through witness testimony that nuclear weapons should never be used again.”
BIRTH
1755.- Fausto de Elhuyar, Spanish chemist, discoverer of the metal tungsten.
1866.- Carlos Arniches, Spanish writer and playwright.
1936.- Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa, Spanish journalist and writer.
1937.- Bobby Charlton, English footballer.
1948.- Evangelina Sobredo Galane, known as Cecilia, Spanish singer and composer.
1962.- Joan Cusack, American actress.
1965.- Luke Perry, American actor.
1966.- Pau Donés, Spanish musician, singer of Jarabe de Palo.
1967.- Peter Andreas Thiel, German businessman, co-founder of PayPal.
1976.- Emily Deschanel, American actress.
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1977.- Laura Gallego, Spanish writer.
1992.- Cardi B, American rapper.
DEATHS
1896.- Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer.
1889.- James Prescott Joule, English physicist who created the theory of energy.
1963.- Jean Cocteau, French writer and filmmaker.
– Edith Piaf, French singer.
1982.- Josep Renau, Spanish painter and poster artist.
2007.- Sri Nimio, Hindu pacifist leader.
2011.- Cliff Robertson, American actor.
2019.- Alexei Leónov, Soviet cosmonaut and first spacewalker.
2022.- Angela Lansbury, American actress.
2024.- María Teresa Cervantes, Spanish poet.
