On February 15, 2003, millions of people demonstrated throughout the world against the American invasion of Iraq.
OTHER EVENTS
1763.- Prussia, Austria and Saxony sign the Treaty of Hubertsburg, which puts an end to the Seven Years’ War.
1806.- The French Empire signs the Treaty of Paris with the Kingdom of Prussia which, after being defeated at Austerlitz, joins the continental blockade, closing its ports to British trade.
1812.- The State of Quito is created by the promulgation of the first Constitution of the current Ecuadorian territory.
1819.- The Supreme Head of the Republic of Venezuela, Simón Bolívar, inaugurates the Congress of Angostura to formulate a new Constitution.
1898.- The sinking of the battleship “Maine” in the port of Havana becomes the origin of the declaration of war of the United States against Spain for the sovereignty of Cuba.
1902.- The first underground railway network in Germany is inaugurated in Berlin.
1904.- The first Constitution of the Republic of Panama is sanctioned by the executive.
1921.- The review “Balear” publishes the “Ultra Manifesto”, a fundamental text of the literary current called ultraism, signed among others by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
1939.- John Ford’s “Stagecoach”, the most influential western in cinematic history, premieres in the American city of Los Angeles.
1942.- The Empire of Japan occupies Singapore during World War II due to the unconditional surrender of the British.
1961.- The entire United States figure skating team dies after the plane they were traveling in crashes near Brussels, Belgium.
1971.- The decimal system comes into force in Great Britain.
1972.- The army overthrows the President of Ecuador, José María Velasco Ibarra, in a military coup known as “El Carnavalazo”.
1982.- The sinking of the oil rig Ocean Ranger off the coast of Newfoundland causes the death of its 84 occupants.
1985.- The constitution of the new National Assembly in Uruguay implies a return to the democratic way after 12 years of dictatorship.
1989.- The USSR concludes the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan in accordance with the Geneva agreements.
1990.- Argentina and the United Kingdom restore full diplomatic relations, broken in 1982 by the Falklands War.
.- The presidents of Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and the United States sign the “Cartagena Agreement”, a pact to combat international drug trafficking.
1992.- A Shining Path command assassinates the Peruvian social activist María Elena Moyano, popularly known as “Mother Courage”, for her fight against terrorism.
1995.- The Algerian musician Rachid Baba Ahmed is assassinated by Islamic fundamentalists in the Algerian city of Oran.
1999.- The leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, is captured in Kenya and transferred to Turkey to be tried there for terrorism.
2003.- The Vatican declassifies part of its documentary archives on the relations of the papacy of Pius XI with Nazi Germany led by Adolf Hitler.
2009.- Venezuelans approve by referendum a constitutional reform that allows the continuous re-election of positions elected by the people.
2016.- Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert becomes the country’s first former head of government to be imprisoned after being found guilty of corruption.
2017.- The European Parliament approves the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Canada (CETA).
2019.- US President Donald Trump declares a national emergency to finance the construction of a wall on the border with Mexico, alleging an illegal immigration crisis.
2021.- Nigerian Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala becomes the first woman and African leader to lead the World Trade Organization (WTO).
2022.- The sinking of the Galician fishing vessel Villa de Pitanxo in the waters of Newfoundland, an island off the northeast coast of Canada, causes the death of ten people, three others are rescued and eleven are still carried disappeared.
BIRTHS
1564.- Galileo Galilei, Italian mathematician and astronomer.
1908.- Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish doctor, professor and essayist.
1927.- Carlo Maria Martini, Italian cardinal.
1928 – Waldyr Pereira, Brazilian footballer.
1931.- Claire Bloom, British actress.
1937.- Manuel de la Calva, member of the “Dinámico Duo”, Spanish composer and singer.
1941.- Andrés Amorós, Spanish writer.
(1945-John Helliwell British musician saxophonist of “Supertramp”
1948.- Marisa Berenson, American actress.
1951.- Jane Seymour, British actress.
1959.- Ali Campbell, British musician, singer and guitarist of “UB40”.
1960.- Enrique Urquijo, Spanish musician, composer and singer of “Los Secretos”.
1968.- Gloria Trevi, Mexican actress and singer.
1981.- Matt Hoopes, American musician.
1986.- Amber Riley, American actress and singer.
1998.- George Russell, British racing driver.
DEATH
1919.- André Prévost, French tennis player.
1926.- Piero Gobetti, publisher, journalist and Italian politician.
1934.- Niklaus Wirth Swiss computer scientist, creator of the Pascal programming language.
1939.- Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter and writer.
1953.- Karl Gustaf Staaf, Swedish athlete.
1965.- Nat “King” Cole, American singer.
1966.- Camilo Torres Restrepo, Colombian priest and guerrilla.
1973.- Tim Holt, American actor.
1988.- Richard Feynman, American researcher, Nobel Prize in Physics.
1999.- Henry Way Kendall, American researcher, Nobel Prize in Physics.
.- José Luis Cano, Spanish writer, founder of the collection of poetry “Adonais”.
2005.- Pierre Bachelet, French singer-songwriter.
2007.- Robert Alder, Austrian, inventor of the remote control.
2009.- Joe Cuba, American musician of Puerto Rican origin.
2015.- Sergio Blanco, Spanish singer, member of Mocedades and Sergio y Estíbaliz.
2021.- Johnny Pacheco, Dominican musician.
2022.- Bappi Lahiri, Indian musician and composer EFE
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