In a December 7but from 2020, water begins to be quoted in the commodity futures market of Wall Street due to the scarcity of this good.
Other anniversaries
1835.- The first German railway line from Nuremberg to Furth is inaugurated with a 6-kilometer route.
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1941.- Japan attacks the North American base at Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) by sea and air, without prior declaration of war, and 2,400 Americans die.
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1972.- Apollo XVII takes off from Cape Canaveral (Florida), in what is the last American manned flight to the Moon.
1980.- General Ramalho Eanes is re-elected president of Portugal.
1983.- 93 dead when an Iberia Boeing 727 plane collided with an Aviaco on the take-off runways of the Madrid-Barajas airport.
1988.- The president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, announces in the UN Assembly a unilateral reduction of Soviet military forces in Europe.
1995.- After 6 years of travel, the American probe Galileo penetrates Jupiter’s atmosphere and begins to send data about the planet.
2003.- President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party achieves a large majority in the parliamentary elections and obtains 223 seats.
2004.- Hamid Karzai assumes the presidency of Afghanistan, after 25 years of war. He is the country’s first democratically elected president.
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2005.- Former Croatian general Ante Gotovina, one of the most wanted war criminals by the ICTY, is detained in Tenerife (Spain).
.- The Santiago Court of Appeal strips former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet of his impunity for Operation Colombo.
2010.- The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, is arrested in London accused of the crimes of rape, sexual abuse and coercion.
2011.- In Spain, Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo, previously nationalized due to the crisis, is awarded to Banco Sabadell.
2012.- The leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshal, travels to Gaza and visits Palestine for the first time, after 45 years in exile.
2015.- Beijing issues its first red alert in history for pollution.
2019.- Antonio Banderas, best actor award from the European Film Academy for “Pain and Glory” (Pedro Almodóvar).
2022.- Pedro Castillo, dismissed from the presidency of Peru after dissolving Congress and declaring an emergency government. Dina Boluarte is sworn in as the first president in the history of the country.
2023.- Mercosur formalizes in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) the entry of Bolivia as its fifth member.
2024.- Official opening of Notre Dame de Paris after the fire. The next day, it will open to the public.
Births
1863.- Pietro Mascagni, Italian musician.
1921.- Thilda Thamar, Argentine actress.
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1924.- Mario Soares, former president of Portugal.
1928.- Noam Chomsky, American linguist and writer.
1935.- Armando Manzanero, Mexican composer and singer.
1953.- Bertín Osborne, Spanish singer.
1956.- Larry Bird, American basketball player.
1957.- Violeta Cela, Spanish actress.
1966.- Lucía Etxebarría, Spanish writer.
1979.- Sara Bareilles, American singer, songwriter and pianist.
2001.- Quevedo, Spanish singer.
2003.- Catherine Amalia of Orange, crown princess of Holland.
Deaths
43 BC– Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman jurist, politician, philosopher, writer and orator, one of the great rhetoricians of the Roman Republic.
1847.- Francisco Manuel Sánchez de Tagle, Mexican poet.
1894.- Fernando de Lesseps, French diplomat and engineer.
1947.- Tristán Bernard, French writer.
1975.- Thornton Wilder, American writer.
1985.- Robert Graves, British writer.
1990.- Joan Bennett, American actress.
1996.- José Donoso, Chilean writer.
2004.- María Rosa Gallo, Argentine actress.
2007.- Sebastiá Sorbías, Spanish writer.
2017.- Desiderio Navarro, Cuban intellectual.
2018.- Belisario Betancur, former president of Colombia (1982-1986).
