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Santoral: Saint Ambrose, bishop and doctor.
National holiday in the Ivory Coast Republic. International Day of International Civil Aviation and Medical Physics
Anniversaries Nationals:
1492. Columbus marched towards the east of the island of Hispaniola until he reached Cabo de La Tortuga, where he stopped and baptized it with the name of La Concepción.
1493. Looking for a new place to settle, Columbus heads east, until he reaches the river called Bahabonico or Bajabonico, on the North coast.
1508. The city of Santo Domingo received the coat of arms of the First City of the Indies from the kings of Spain, serving as a model for the construction of other colonial cities in America.
1511. Fray Antón de Montesinos launches a homily from the pulpit, in which he criticizes the exploitation to which the Indians are subjected by the Spanish.
1886. The educator, poet and patriot Ercilia Pepín was born in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros, who was a determined opponent of the US military intervention in the country and the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo.
1913. A Patriotic Junta is founded in Santo Domingo, as a result of the concern unleashed in the population, by the intervention of the Minister of Defense of the United States accredited in the country, in the internal affairs of the Dominican Republic.
1931. Mr. Rafael Estrella Ureña ceases to hold office as Vice President of the Republic, breaking with the President, General Rafael Trujillo Molina.
1948. The Monetary Board authorizes commercial banks to receive deposits in foreign currencies with the objective of facilitating international business.
1958. Commander Enrique Jiménez Moya flies from Caracas to an area controlled by the guerrillas in Cuba, in a plane that international solidarity sent with weapons and supplies.
1961. The National Police is authorized to use insignia similar to those of the Armed Forces.
1967. Through Decree No.1892, President Joaquín Balaguer creates the Duartiano Institute.
2005. Mr. Fernando Álvarez Bogaert returns to the Christian Social Reformist Party (PRSC), after resigning from the organization to accept the vice-presidential candidacy of the Dominican Revolutionary Party.
2020. The Minister of Youth on leave, Kinsberly Taveras, presents her resignation from the position, in a communication sent to President Luis Abinader, after being accused of embezzling public funds, through her private commercial businesses.
– The Superior Administrative Court (TSA) declares inadmissible the amparo action submitted by the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), claiming the right to have a seat in the National Council of the Judiciary (CNM) for holding the second majority in the Senate, a seat granted to the Fuerza del Pueblo Party.
2023. The Central Electoral Board (JCE) approves the regulation that authorizes those deprived of liberty under conditions of preventive inmates (those who have not yet been definitively sentenced) to exercise their right to vote at the presidential level in the elections of May 19, 2024 , as long as the person who falls within this condition has their identity and electoral card.
International:
43 BC. Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated.
1492. An assassination attempt takes place in Barcelona against Fernando el Católico, in which he is injured.
1787. The state of Delaware is the first to ratify the United States Constitution.
1790. In France, religious orders and congregations and their expropriated property are prohibited.
1796. John Adams is elected second president of the United States.
1888. John Dunlop patents the tire.
1941. The Japanese attack the North American base in the Pacific Ocean known as Pearl Harbor, causing the United States to enter World War II.
1972. The US launches the Apollo 17 spacecraft, the last in the lunar series of that name.
1975. A few days after declaring its independence from Portugal, East Timor is invaded by Indonesian troops, causing a genocide of approximately 30% of the Timorese population.
1982. In Guatemala, the village of Las Dos Erres, in the department of La Libertad (Petén), the Government of dictator Efraín Ríos Montt carries out the second day of torturing and murdering more than 400 people.
– Injection is used for the first time in the world to carry out the death penalty, in a prison in Texas, USA.
1988. A 6.9º earthquake causes 24,962 deaths in Armenia.
1992. More than 2,000 dead in India due to riots between Hindus and Muslims.
2005. At Miami International Airport, a group of federal police shoot dead Costa Rican passenger Rigoberto Alpízar, who claimed to have a bomb, although it was not true.
2009. The first day of debates of the XV Climate Change Conference sponsored by the UN begins in Copenhagen (Denmark).
2016. In Tultepec, State of Mexico, explosions were reported in the San Pablito fireworks market, leaving at least 42 people dead, this being the third incident in that place.
2020. The Attorney General of the Republic of Brazil, Augusto Aras, prohibited the attempt to transfer US$52,941,176 from J & F Holding to a “non-profit” foundation, a maneuver that unmasks another organization linked to the Lava Jato case.
2021. The Chamber of Deputies makes Chile the seventh country to approve equal marriage, along with Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Uruguay, after a long and complex parliamentary process promoted by conservative president Sebastián Piñera in the final stretch of his mandate.
2022. German security forces arrest 25 members and sympathizers of a far-right group that planned to overthrow the Government, storm the Bundestag and Parliament.
– After attempting to carry out a self-coup, Peruvian President Pedro Castillo is removed from office by the Congress of the Republic through a vacancy process approved with 101 votes in favor, being replaced by Vice President Dina Boluarte Zegarra.
2023. The Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip reports that the deaths in that area caused by Israel’s attacks exceed 16,800 since the start of the war, not including the bombings of the last few hours, which caused dozens of deaths.
– The Spanish Government announces the expulsion of two members of the United States Embassy staff, whom it accuses of allegedly bribing two of its agents from the National Intelligence Center (CNI), in exchange for classified information.
