On March 11, 2011, an earthquake measuring 9 on the Richter scale and a subsequent tsunami devastated part of the northeast coast of Japan, leaving more than 15,000 dead, thousands missing and one nuclear accident in Fukushima.
OTHER EVENTS
1542.- Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, first royally appointed governor of Asunción, enters this Paraguayan city.
1560.- Laying of the first stone of the Cathedral of Cuzco (Peru).
1704.- The Daily Courant, the first newspaper in circulation in the United Kingdom, goes on sale.
1851.- Verdi creates the opera “Rigoletto” at La Fenice in Venice.
1915.- Mexican Revolution: General Obregón flees after Zapata’s troops enter the Mexican capital.
1949.- A new Constitution is promulgated in Argentina.
1964.- Raúl Leoni assumes the presidency of Venezuela, replacing Rómulo Betancourt.
1975.- A coup in Portugal fails, led by the Portuguese general Antonio Spínola who leaves the country to take refuge in Brazil.
1985.- Mikhail Gorbachev is appointed Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, four hours after the death of his predecessor, Konstantin Chernienko.
1990.- Lithuania separates from the Soviet Union and proclaims itself a sovereign state under the name of the Republic of Lithuania.
1994.- Ordained the first 32 priestesses of the Anglican Church.
1998.- The South Korean company SaeHan Information Systems presents the first MP3 music player in history, the Eiger MPMan F10.
2000.- Ricardo Lagos becomes the first socialist president elected since the fall of the dictatorship in Chile.
2001.- Thousands of people receive the Zapatista caravan led by “subcomandante Marcos” in the Zócalo of Mexico City.
– The Taliban government of Afghanistan communicates to the UN that it has completed the destruction of the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan.
2003.- The work of the International Criminal Court begins in The Hague (Holland), the judicial body of the UN responsible for resolving legal disputes raised by member countries.
2004.- A jihadist cell commits the biggest terrorist attack in the history of Spain in Madrid by blowing up ten devices in four suburban trains, with a final toll of 193 dead and more than 2,000 injured.
2006.- Socialist Michelle Bachelet becomes the first woman to become head of state in Chile.
– A heart attack ends the life of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in his cell at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, where he was tried for crimes against humanity.
2009.- France announces its return to NATO’s military structure, 43 years after General De Gaulle’s decision to leave.
2014.- The Crimean Parliament declares its independence from Ukraine.
2016.- Cuba and the EU sign the document of their new political dialogue and cooperation agreement, to normalize their bilateral relationship, marked since 1996 by the restrictive “common position”.
2018.- Russia is testing the “Kinzhai” hypersonic missile, which according to the country’s authorities is capable of circumventing the American anti-missile shield.
2020.- WHO declares covid-19 a pandemic, which has infected and killed millions of people worldwide.
2021.- Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple, auctions a totally digital work (NFT) for 69 million dollars, the highest price achieved for a work of this type to date.
2022.- The progressive Gabriel Boric takes office as President of Chile and inaugurates a new leftist cycle in the South American country.
– A court of peace in El Salvador orders the arrest of former President Alfredo Cristiani (1989-1994) for the massacre of six Jesuit priests, five of them Spaniards, and two women in 1989 in the context of the civil war (1980 -1992). .
BIRTHS
1544.- Torquato Tasso, Italian poet.
1754.- Juan Meléndez Valdés, Spanish poet.
1867.- Antonio Alvarez Alonso, Spanish composer and pianist.
1887.- Raoul Walsh, American director.
1902.- Luis Gowland Moreno, Argentinian painter.
1912.- Xavier Montsalvatge, Spanish composer.
1915.- Raquel Rodrigo, Spanish actress of Cuban origin.
1921.- Astor Piazzola, Argentinian bandoneonist and composer.
1922.- José Luis López Vázquez, Spanish actor.
1927.- José María Subirachs, Spanish sculptor.
1931.- Rupert Murdoch, American businessman and publisher of Australian origin.
1940.- Alberto Cortez, Argentinian singer.
1955.- Nina Hagen, German singer.
DEATH
1857.- Manuel José Quintana, Spanish poet.
1931.- FW Murnau, German director.
1950.- Heinrich Mann German writer.
1955.- Alexander Fleming, British doctor, discoverer of penicillin.
1986.- Sonny Terry, American blues musician.
1992.- Richard Brooks, American writer and filmmaker.
2000.- Kazimierz Brandys, Polish writer.
2002.- James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Prize in Economics in 1981.
2007.- Betty Hutton, American actress.
2016.- Keith Emerson, British musician, founding member of the progressive rock band “Emerson, Lake and Palmer”.
2019.- Martín Chirino, Spanish sculptor. EFE
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