World.- In the ephemeris of this February 12 Several important ones that marked the history of humanity stand out, for example: in 1921, the pact of the United Provinces of Central America was approved, between Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, which established a single sovereignty and representation in foreign policy.
On the same date, but in 2019, a US jury found Mexican “Chapo” Guzmán guilty of drug trafficking for holding a position of responsibility in the Sinaloa cartel.
What are the ephemeris of February 12?
1541.- The conqueror Pedro de Valdivia, Pizarro’s master of the field, founded the city of Santiago del Nuevo Extremo, currently Santiago de Chile.
1542.- The expedition led by Francisco de Orellana, by order of Gonzalo Pizarro, discovers the mouth of the Amazon River in the Atlantic Ocean.
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1554.- Juana I of England is beheaded for high treason, when she was sixteen years old, by order of her cousin Maria Tudor.
1818.- The military and politician Bernardo O’Higgins proclaims Chile’s independence from the Spanish monarchy.
1832.- The Republic of Ecuador, presided over by General Juan José Flores, annexes the Galapagos Islands.
1855.- Diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Spain and the Dominican Republic began with the signing of the Treaty of Recognition, Peace, Friendship and Trade.
1899.- Spain sells to Germany the archipelagos of Las Carolinas, Marianas and Palau.
1908.- The so-called “race of the century” leaves from New York to Paris, the largest expedition of cars ever seen that would culminate on July 30.
1912.- The Chinese Imperial Government recognizes the Republic.
1924.- Calvin Coolidge becomes the first US president to make a speech broadcast by radio from the White House.
1931.- Premiere in the US of the first version of the film “Dracula”, starring the actor of Austro-Hungarian origin Bela Lugosi.
1933.- The Second Spanish Republic establishes relations with the USSR.
1935.- The US Navy airship USS Macon is damaged during a storm and plunges into the sea in Monterey Bay, south of San Francisco (USA).
1946.- The decorated African-American veteran in World War II, Isaac Woodard, is brutally assaulted by the police in South Carolina and fuels the civil rights movement in the United States.
1949.- A radio station in Quito transmits “The War of the Worlds” by HG Wells and provokes panic as it did a decade before in New York.
1951.- Wedding of Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Persia, with the princess of German origin Soraya Sfandiari.
1953.- An Anglo-Egyptian treaty ratifies the independence of Sudan.
1961.- The USSR launches the first spacecraft to Venus from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
1966.- One hundred children disappear in a fire in Iquitos (Peru), where another thirteen people also died.
1980.- THE IOC ratifies Moscow as the venue for the Olympic Games, against the boycott proposal made by the United States.
1985.- The Uruguayan dictatorship ends with the resignation of President Gregorio Álvarez, the last leader of the military regime.
1988.- The American warship USS Yorktown is rammed by the Soviet frigate Bezzavetny when it tried to exercise the right of innocent passage through the territorial waters of the USSR in the Black Sea.
1991.- North Korea and South Korea sign a non-aggression treaty.
1999.- The president of the United States, Bill Clinton, is acquitted of the charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in the “Lewinski case” and will not be impeached by the Senate.
2001.- A computer virus that uses the image of the Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova spreads through computers around the world.
2004.- An elderly lesbian couple from San Francisco celebrates the first gay wedding in the United States.
2005.- Successful launch of the largest rocket of the European Space Agency, the new Ariane 5, from the Kurú space base (French Guiana).
2013.- France approves the law of homosexual marriage.
2016.- Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill reunite the two churches for the first time after the schism of 1054.
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2019.- A US jury found Mexican “Chapo” Gúzman guilty of drug trafficking for holding a position of responsibility in the Sinaloa cartel.
Who was born on a February 12?
1809.- Charles Darwin, British naturalist.
1923.- Franco Zefirelli, Italian film director.
1939.- Ray Manzarek, American musician, keyboardist for The Doors.
1949.- Joaquín Sabina, Spanish singer-songwriter.
1958.- Javier Gurruchaga, Spanish singer and comedian.
– Grant Mclennan, Australian musician, singer of The Go-Betweens.
1980.- Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spanish tennis player.
– Christina Ricci, American actress.
1993.- Jennifer Stone, American actress.
nineteen ninety five.- Daniela Aedo, Mexican actress and singer.
Who died on a February 12?
1690.- Charles Lebrun, French painter.
1804.- Emmanuel Kant, German philosopher.
1979.- Jean Renoir, French film director.
1984.- Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer, nationalized French.
1989.- Thomas Bernhard, Austrian playwright.
nineteen ninety five.- Alberto Burri, Italian doctor and painter, considered the creator of abstract expressionism.
2000.- Charles Schulz, American cartoonist, creator of the characters Carlitos and Snoopy.
– Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, American musician.
2011.- Betty Garrett, American actress.
2016.- Juan Carlos Godoy, Argentine tango singer.
2017.– Al Jarreau, American jazz singer.
2018.- Marty Allen, American actor.
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