World.- In the ephemeris of this May 16 several important ones that marked the history of humanity stand out, for example: in 1990, the World Health Organization (WHO) removed homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses.
EPHEMERIS
1814.- Norway becomes independent from Denmark.
1861.- In England, the Caja Postal de Ahorros is founded, the first entity of its kind in the world.
1863.- The city of Puebla (Mexico) surrenders to the French troops of Maximilian I, after two months of heroic resistance in which it suffered eight assaults.
1865.- An agreement is signed in Paris establishing the International Telegraphy Union.
1928.- Inauguration of the telephone service between Spain and Portugal.
1936.- Coup d’état in Bolivia led by David Toro, who overthrew its president, Luis Tejada Sorzano.
1943.- World War II: the RAF, the British air force, bombs the industrial heart of Germany by destroying three dams in the Ruhr valley.
1946.- Romanian dictator Marshal Ion Antonescu is sentenced to death for attacking the USSR as an ally of Hitler.
1959.- The Government of Fidel Castro enacts the Agrarian Reform Law.
1973.- The Senate Watergate Committee begins its nationally televised hearings.
1980.- First attack by the Peruvian terrorist group Sendero Luminoso: a commando attacks a place in the town of Chuschi (Ayacucho region) that housed ballot boxes and electoral ballots.
1992.- Pope John Paul II beatifies Josemaría Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei.
1994.- The first democratic elections are held in Malawi.
1997.- Laurent Kabila proclaims himself head of state and renamed Zaire the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2000.- Scientists Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo are awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research for their discovery of the AIDS virus.
2004.- At least 104 inmates die in the prison of San Pedro Sula, in Honduras, due to a fire.
2005.- The anti-Castro Luis Posada Carriles is arrested in Miami (USA), accused by Venezuela and Cuba of being an international terrorist.
2007.- Paul Wolfowitz announces his resignation – effective June 30 – as president of the World Bank due to a scandal of favoritism towards his girlfriend and employee of the agency.
– The Spaniard Javier Solana receives in Aachen (Germany) the Charlemagne Prize for Europeanism.
2011.- Queen Elizabeth II of England visits Ireland in the first visit by a British monarch since the country’s independence.
2019.- Taiwan becomes the first country in Asia to legalize gay marriage.
– US President Donald Trump confirms the end of tariffs on steel and aluminum from Mexico and Canada.
2020.- Benjamin Netanyahu assumes, accused of corruption, his fifth term as prime minister of Israel.
Who was born on a day like today?
1806.- Pascual Madoz, author of the “Geographical, Statistical and Historical Dictionary of Spain”.
1886.- Alfonso de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorraine, Alfonso XIII, King of Spain.
1936.– Dennis Hopper, American filmmaker.
1961.- Enya, Irish singer.
1971.- Máxima Zorreguieta, queen consort of the Netherlands (wife of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands), of Argentine origin.
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Who died on a day like today?
1510.- Alessandro Botticelli, Italian painter.
1727.- Catherine I of Russia, wife of Peter I the Great.
1838.- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French politician and diplomat.
1987.- Karl Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist.
2004.- Tony Randall, American actor.
2009.- Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer.
2012.- Donna Summer, American singer.
2013.- Jorge Rafael Videla, former Argentine dictator.
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