In on December 13but in 2003, the former Iraqi president was captured Saddam Hussein in a farm cell in the town of Adwar, south of Tikrit, his hometown.
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1474.- Isabel la Católica is proclaimed queen of Castile in the city of Segovia.
1545.- Official opening of the Council of Trent, convened to confront Protestantism.
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1895.- The Austrian composer Gustav Mahler premieres his Second Symphony in Berlin.
1910.- Student riots in Saint Petersburg and Odessa against the use of corporal punishment on political prisoners.
1958.- The United States launches the Jupiter AM-13 rocket into space with a monkey as a crew member.
1968.- Arturo da Costa Silva proclaims the military dictatorship in Brazil.
1972.- The Apollo 17 team carries out its third and final walk on lunar soil. This mission is the last moon landing carried out by the US to date.
1974.- Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with a president as head of state.
1981.- The communist government of the People’s Republic of Poland decrees martial law that was in force until 1983.
1982.- An earthquake in Yemen causes the death of at least 3,000 people.
1991.- North Korea and South Korea sign a historic agreement after 46 years of a state of “technical war.”
1997.- The meteorological phenomenon known as “El Niño” causes the only snowfall recorded in more than a century (the previous one had been in 1881) in the Mexican city of Guadalajara.
1998.- Puerto Rico rejects its annexation to the United States in a referendum.
2004.- Augusto Pinochet is prosecuted by Judge Juan Guzmán as allegedly responsible for the crimes of Operation Condor.
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2006.- The United Nations General Assembly approves the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
2007.- The leaders of the 27 countries of the European Union sign the EU Reform Treaty in Lisbon.
2016.- The European Parliament gives the green light to the free trade agreement between the European Union and Ecuador.
2021.- The Spanish actress Verónica Forqué is found dead in her home in Madrid.
2022.- The US announces a “historic scientific achievement” towards inexhaustible energy with nuclear fusion.
2023.- The Dubai Climate Summit, COP28, closes with a “historic” agreement; for the first time, the need to leave fossil fuels behind to limit warming is recognized.
2024.- Google presents Geminis 2, its new generation of Artificial Intelligence.
BIRTH
1797.- Heinrich Heine, German romantic poet.
1816.- Werner von Siemens, German inventor, founder of the Siemens company.
1912.- Luiz Gonzaga, Brazilian accordionist, singer and composer, known as the “king of baião”.
1923.- Antoni Tapies, Spanish painter.
1925.- Dick Van Dyke, American actor.
1929.- Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor.
1943.- Arturo Ripstein, Mexican film director.
1957.- Steve Buscemi, American actor.
1989.- Taylor Swift, American singer and songwriter, winner of several Grammy Awards.
DEATHS
1466.- Donato di Betto, “Donatello”, Florentine sculptor.
1836.- Francisco Espoz y Mina, guerrilla in the Spanish War of Independence.
1934.- José Santos Chocano, Peruvian poet.
2001.- Ardito Desio, Italian explorer and mountaineer.
2009.- Paul Samuelson, American economist and Nobel Prize winner.
2010.- Enrique Morente, flamenco singer.
2014.- Phil Stern, American photographer.
2016.- Alan Thicke, Canadian actor.
2022.- Ubaldo Rodríguez Santos, “Lalo Rodríguez”, Puerto Rican musician who popularized the musical theme “Ven, devórame otra vez”.
