On February 23, 1997, Scottish scientists reported the cloning of a sheep named “Dolly” from an adult cell of her species in July 1996.
OTHER EVENTS:
1455.- The German Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press, completes the printing of the Bible in movable type in Mainz.
1739.- English bandit Dick Turpin is identified from the recognition of his handwriting in a letter from a former teacher.
1765.- British chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish discovers hydrogen, the lightest known gas.
1775.- The Barber of Seville, the comedy by French playwright Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais, premiered in Paris.
1822.- The Chilean soldier Vicente Benavides, leader of the royalist guerrillas, is executed in the city of Santiago.
1836.- The battle of El Alamo begins, opposing the Mexican army to a militia made up of American settlers favorable to the Republic of Texas.
1854.- The Orange Free State (South Africa) officially obtains its independence after the signing of the Treaty of Bloemfontein with the British.
1882.- The Banco Nacional Mexicano begins to operate to the public.
1886.- The American inventor and engineer Charles Martin Hall produces the first samples of aluminum obtained by electrolytic method.
1893.- German engineer Rudolf Diesel obtains the patent for the diesel engine, which uses diesel as fuel instead of gasoline.
1903.- Cuba leases the Guantánamo Bay region to the United States indefinitely.
1904.- The representatives of Japan and Korea finalize the negotiations on the treaty which converts the latter into a protectorate of the former.
1918.- The Red Army, origin of the armed forces of the USSR, begins a massive recruitment in Petrograd and Moscow to fight the German imperial troops.
1920.- Marconi station in Chelmsford launches the first radio broadcasts in the UK with a musical programme.
1930.- A revolutionary movement overthrows the government of Horacio Vásquez in the Dominican Republic and facilitates the accession to power of Rafael Trujillo.
1934.- Leopold III is crowned King of Belgium, after the accidental death of his father, Alberto I, while climbing a mountain.
(1945-Photographer Joe Rosenthal takes popular snapshot of the raising of the American flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima during WWII
1958.- The Cuban guerrillas, led by Fidel Castro, kidnap the Argentine racing driver Juan Manuel Fangio, five-time world champion, in Havana, although he is released 28 hours later.
1966.- Arab Socialist Baas Party member Salah Jadid leads a coup in Syria that overthrows the government of General Amin al-Hafiz.
1970.- The territory of Guyana, located on the northern coast of South America and independent since 1966, is officially proclaimed the Cooperative Republic of Guyana.
1982.- Greenland, an autonomous territory belonging to Denmark, decides by referendum to leave the European Economic Community (EEC).
1989.- Algeria adopts, by referendum, a new Constitution which accepts political pluralism.
1991.- The Thai army overthrows the Prime Minister, Chatichai Choonhavan, in a coup d’etat and suspends all constitutional guarantees.
1994.- The Duma of the Russian Federation grants amnesty to members of the government and KGB who participated in the 1991 coup attempt, when they briefly deposed President Gorbachev and tried to seize power .
1997.- Scottish scientists report the cloning of a sheep named ‘Dolly’ from an adult cell of her species in July 1996.
2010.- Cuban dissident Orlando Zapata dies in a hospital in Havana after 86 days of hunger strike in prison.
2016.- WikiLeaks reveals that the US NSA spied on world leaders such as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
BIRTHS:
1940.- Peter Fonda, American actor.
1944.- Johnny Winter, American blues and rock guitarist.
1946.- Rusty Young, American guitarist, singer and composer.
1958.- David Sylvian, British singer, musician and composer.
1960.- Naruhito, Emperor of Japan.
1965.- Michael Saul Dell, American executive, founder of Dell technology.
1975.- Natalia Verbeke, Spanish nationalized Argentinian actress.
1983.- Emily Blunt, British actress.
1992.- Casemiro, Brazilian footballer.
2012.- Estela de Suecia, Swedish aristocrat, eldest daughter of Princess Victoria.
DEATH:
1821.- John Keats, English poet.
1934.- Edward Elgar, British composer.
1955.- Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright.
1965.- Stan Laurel, “El Flaco”, American comic actor.
1987.- José Afonso, Portuguese singer.
1990.- José Napoleón Duarte, ex-president of El Salvador.
2000.- Stanley Matthews, British footballer who won the “first Ballon d’Or”.
2014.- Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech pianist, the oldest survivor of the Holocaust.
2017.- Leon Ware, American composer, producer and singer.
2018.- Lewis Gilbert, British director.
2021.- Fausto Gresini, Italian motorcycle rider. EFE extension
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