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En cada día, el acontecimiento, el nacimiento y la muerte que más pesan (los que tocan más cosas con página en el sitio). Los nombres en azul tienen página. Pulsa el número para ver el día entero.
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acontecimiento · 1914 World War I: The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
nace · 1945 Douglas Osheroff, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
muere · 1970 Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1883)
2443 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1492 The Jews are expelled from Spain: 40,000–200,000 leave. Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire, learning of this, dispatches the Ottoman Navy to bring the Jews safely to Ottoman lands, mainly to the cities of Thessaloniki (in modern-day Greece) and İzmir (in modern-day Turkey).
nace · 1872 George E. Stewart, Australian-American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1946)
muere · 1923 Warren G. Harding, American journalist and politician, 29th president of the United States (born 1865)
3396 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1948 Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
nace · 1959 Koichi Tanaka, Japanese chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
muere · 1942 Richard Willstätter, German-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1872)
4369 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1873 American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Cheyenne and Lakota people near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
nace · 1961 Barack Obama, American lawyer and politician, 44th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate
muere · 1957 John Cain Sr., Australian politician, 34th Premier of Victoria (born 1882)
5443 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1974 Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon, under orders of the US Supreme Court, releases the "Smoking Gun" tape, recorded on June 23, 1972, clearly revealing his actions in covering up and interfering investigations into the break-in. His political support vanishes completely.
nace · 1905 Wassily Leontief, German-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1999)
muere · 2019 Toni Morrison, American author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and Nobel laureate (born 1931).
6339 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1862 American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
nace · 1895 Frank Nicklin, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Queensland (died 1978)
muere · 1906 George Waterhouse, English-New Zealand politician, 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1824)
7383 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
nace · 1726 James Bowdoin, American banker and politician, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts (died 1790)
muere · 1855 Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 19th President of Mexico (born 1802)
8448 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1967 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
nace · 1951 Mohamed Morsi, Egyptian engineer, academic, and politician, 5th President of Egypt (died 2019)
muere · 1827 George Canning, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1770)
9399 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1971 The Troubles: In Northern Ireland, the British authorities launch Operation Demetrius. The operation involves the mass arrest and internment without trial of individuals suspected of being affiliated with the Irish Republican Army (PIRA). Mass riots follow, and thousands of people flee or are forced out of their homes.
nace · 1930 Jacques Parizeau, Canadian economist and politician, 26th Premier of Quebec (died 2015)
muere · 1945 Robert Hampton Gray, Canadian lieutenant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1917)
10451 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1913 Second Balkan War: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
nace · 1814 John C. Pemberton, United States soldier and Confederate general (died 1881)
muere · 1904 Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French lawyer and politician, 68th Prime Minister of France (born 1846)
11385 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1812 Peninsular War: French troops engage British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.
nace · 1943 Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani general and politician, 10th President of Pakistan (died 2023)
muere · 1253 Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (born 1194)
12413 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1914 World War I: France, the United Kingdom and the British Empire declare war on Austria-Hungary.
nace · 1860 Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler (died 1907)
muere · 1941 Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, English soldier and politician, 56th Governor General of Canada (born 1866)
13399 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1704 War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim: English and Imperial forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.
nace · 1926 Fidel Castro, Cuban lawyer and politician, ex-President of Cuba (died 2016)
muere · 1965 Hayato Ikeda, Japanese lawyer and politician, 58th Prime Minister of Japan (born 1899)
14317 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 2006 Lebanon War: A ceasefire takes effect three days after the United Nations Security Council's approval of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, formally ending hostilities between Lebanon and Israel.
nace · 1980 Peter Malinauskas, Australian politician, 47th Premier of South Australia
muere · 2025 Mike Castle, American politician, 69th Governor of Delaware (born 1939)
15480 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 2013 At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video.
nace · 1876 Stylianos Gonatas, Greek colonel and politician, 111th Prime Minister of Greece (died 1966)
muere · 1975 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician, 1st President of Bangladesh (born 1920)
16406 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1964 Vietnam War: A coup d'état replaces Dương Văn Minh with General Nguyễn Khánh as President of South Vietnam. A new constitution is established with aid from the U.S. Embassy.
nace · 1913 Menachem Begin, Belarusian-Israeli politician, Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1992)
muere · 1979 John Diefenbaker, Canadian lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1895)
17403 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1585 Eighty Years' War: Siege of Antwerp: Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, who orders Protestants to leave the city and as a result over half of the 100,000 inhabitants flee to the northern provinces.
nace · 1926 Jiang Zemin, Chinese engineer and politician, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (paramount leader) and President of China (died 2022)
muere · 1850 José de San Martín, Argentinian general and politician, 1st President of Peru (born 1778)
18383 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1572 The Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre marries the Catholic Margaret of Valois, ostensibly to reconcile the feuding Protestants and Catholics of France.
nace · 1803 Nathan Clifford, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 19th United States Attorney General (died 1881)
muere · 1258 Theodore II Laskaris, emperor of Nicea (Byzantine emperor in exile)
19369 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 43 a. C. In the wake of the murder of Julius Caesar, his nephew and heir, Octavian, uses the threat of military force to compel the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.
nace · 1946 Bill Clinton, American lawyer and politician, 40th and 42nd Governor of Arkansas, 42nd President of the United States
muere · 1954 Alcide De Gasperi, Italian journalist and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1881)
20412 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: The United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical weapons plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
nace · 1884 Rudolf Bultmann, German Lutheran theologian and professor of New Testament at the University of Marburg (died 1976)
muere · 917 Constantine Lips, Byzantine admiral
21398 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1968 Cold War: Nicolae Ceaușescu, leader of the Socialist Republic of Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.
nace · 1927 Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader, 16th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 2018)
muere · 1940 Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (born 1879)
22403 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1153 Crusader–Fatimid wars: The fortress of Ascalon is surrendered by Fatimid Egypt to an army of crusaders, Templars, and Hospitallers led by King Baldwin III of Jerusalem.
nace · 1904 Deng Xiaoping, Chinese soldier and politician, paramount leader and 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (died 1997)
muere · 2004 Angus Bethune, Australian soldier and politician, 33rd Premier of Tasmania (born 1908)
23443 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret protocol to the pact, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania are divided into German and Soviet "spheres of influence".
nace · 1884 Ogden L. Mills, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 50th United States Secretary of the Treasury (died 1937)
muere · 1498 Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, eldest daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (born 1470)
24408 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1963 Buddhist crisis: As a result of the Xá Lợi Pagoda raids, the US State Department cables the United States Embassy, Saigon to encourage Army of the Republic of Vietnam generals to launch a coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm if he did not remove his brother Ngô Đình Nhu.
nace · 1948 Sauli Niinistö, Finnish captain and politician, 12th President of Finland
muere · 1804 Peggy Shippen, American wife of Benedict Arnold and American Revolutionary War spy (born 1760)
25457 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons; a Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned back by an Allied air attack.
nace · 1889 Alexander Mair, Australian politician, 26th Premier of New South Wales (died 1969)
muere · 1967 Stanley Bruce, Australian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1883)
26376 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1542 A year and a half after leaving Guayaquil on the Pacific coast, Francisco de Orellana finishes his overland journey across South America and reaches the mouth of the Amazon River on the Atlantic coast.
nace · 1797 Saint Innocent of Alaska, Russian Orthodox missionary priest, then the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and finally the Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia (died 1879)
muere · 2001 Marita Petersen, Faroese educator and politician, 8th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (born 1940)
27445 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1791 French Revolution: Frederick William II of Prussia and Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, issue the Declaration of Pillnitz, declaring the joint support of the Holy Roman Empire and Prussia for the French monarchy, agitating the French revolutionaries and contributing to the outbreak of the War of the First Coalition.
nace · 1822 William Hayden English, American politician, U.S. Representative from Indiana and Democratic vice-presidential nominee (died 1896)
muere · 1948 Charles Evans Hughes, American lawyer and politician, 11th Chief Justice of the United States (born 1862)
28404 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1955 Black teenager Emmett Till is lynched in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
nace · 1940 William Cohen, American lawyer and politician, 20th United States Secretary of Defense
muere · 1678 John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1602)
29413 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 2003 Sayed Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
nace · 1871 Albert François Lebrun, French engineer and politician, 15th President of France (died 1950)
muere · 1975 Éamon de Valera, Irish soldier and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (born 1882)
30413 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1535 With the papal bull Eius qui immobilis, Pope Paul III excommunicates King Henry VIII of England from the Catholic Church for approving the Acts of Supremacy, although the bull is likely never published.
nace · 1917 Denis Healey, English soldier and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 2015)
muere · 1773 Peshwa Narayan Rao, Prime Minister of Maratha Empire (born 1755, assassinated)
31443 hechos · ver el día
acontecimiento · 1864 American Civil War: The Battle of Jonesborough, the culmination of the Atlanta campaign, begins as Union forces under General William T. Sherman clash with Confederate troops under General William J. Hardee south of Atlanta.
nace · 1843 Georg von Hertling, German academic and politician, 7th Chancellor of the German Empire (died 1919)
muere · 1817 Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet, English admiral and politician, 39th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (born 1747)