On August 5, but in 1926, the illusionist of Austro-Hungarian origin, Harry Houdini, performs his last and greatest feat by spending 91 minutes inside a coffin submerged in a pool.
OTHER EVENTS
1498.- On his third voyage to America, Columbus set foot on continental land for the first time in the Yacua cove, on the southern coast of the Paria peninsula, in present-day Venezuela.
1666.- Foundation of the French Academy of Sciences, the work of Colbert.
1772.- Treaty of Saint Petersburg, by which the first distribution of Poland among its neighboring countries was ratified.
1775.- For the first time, a ship enters the San Francisco bay in California, the “San Carlos”, captained by Juan Manuel de Ayala.
1796.- Napoleon defeats the Austrians in Castiglione and ends their threat to Italy.
1821.- The Russian Antarctic Expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen returns to Kronshtadt after becoming the first to circumnavigate Antarctica
1884.- The first stone of the Statue of Liberty is laid in New York.
1889.- Inauguration in Paris of the Grand Amphitheater of the Sorbonne University, declared a historical monument in 1975.
1929.- Inauguration of the radiotelegraphic service between Berlin and Mexico.
1936.- Reform in Colombia of the Constitution of 1886, in which the Church-State separation is introduced and powers are granted to the latter to guarantee the function of property.
1947.- President Truman provides that the Governor of Puerto Rico be elected by the Puerto Rican people instead of by the President of the United States.
1949.- An earthquake causes 3,000 deaths in Ecuador.
1953.- World premiere in New York of the film “From Here to Eternity” starring Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster and Montgomery Clift.
1962.- American actress Marilyn Monroe dies.
1964.- Founded in Buenos Aires the Peronist Revolutionary Movement (MRP).
1966.- The Beatles release their album ‘Revolver’.
1985.- Paul Bregman, a crew member of the bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, commits suicide.
1995.- The US and Vietnam sign the normalization of relations in Hanoi after 20 years.
1994.- Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay decide in Buenos Aires to create a free trade zone between MERCOSUR and Bolivia.
1998.- The Spanish singer Alejandro Sanz publishes “Amiga mía”, his first song to reach number 1 on the Billboard Latin Pop Airplay chart.
1999.- The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, announces before the National Constituent Assembly ) the bases of the revolution that will transform the country, and asks that all the constituted powers be declared “emergency”.
2003.- The Episcopalian Church of the United States ratifies the appointment of the Reverend Gene Robinson as the new bishop of the state of New Hampshire, the first to declare himself homosexual.
2004.- The Dominican Republic officially joins the Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
2010.- In Chile, 33 miners are trapped when a gallery collapses in the San José mine, in the Atacama region.
2013.- A team of Dutch scientists develops the first laboratory hamburger from vaccine stem cells.
– The creator of Amazon.com, Jeffrey Bezos, acquires one of the most important communication conglomerates in the US, The Washington Post Co, ending the administration of the Graham family.
2014.- An Argentine judge confirms that a person who disappeared during the military dictatorship is the grandson of the president of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto.
2016.- The FARC announce the protocol for the delivery of weapons and the definitive ceasefire.
2017.- The Constituent Assembly of Venezuela dismisses the attorney general, Luisa Ortega Díaz, and disqualifies her from any public office.
2018.- Captured the “number two” of the Clan del Golfo, Carlos Mario Tuberquia Moreno, alias “Nicolás”, a trusted man of Dairo Antonio Úsuga David, “Otoniel”, leader of the largest criminal gang in Colombia.
2022.- China suspends its cooperation with Washington due to the visit of the president of Congress Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan.
BIRTHS
1850.- Guy de Maupassant, French writer.
1906.- John Huston, American filmmaker.
1911.- Robert Taylor, American actor.
1930.- Neil Armstrong, American cosmonaut.
1942.- Sergio Ramírez, Nicaraguan politician and writer.
1963.- Mark Strong, British actor.
1968.- Colin Mcrae, Scottish car driver.
– Marine Le Pen, French politician.
1997.- Olivia Holt, American actress and singer.
DEATHS
1895.- Friedrich Engels, German philosopher and sociologist.
1955.- Carmen Miranda, Brazilian actress and singer.
1962.- Marilyn Monroe, American actress.
1984.- Richard Burton, British actor.
2000.- Alec Guinness, British actor.
2012.- Chavela Vargas, Mexican singer.
2019.- Toni Morrison, American writer, Pulitzer Prize Winner 1988 and Nobel Prize for Literature 1993.
2022.- Ana Luísa Amaral, Portuguese poet.
.- Issey Miyake, Japanese designer.EFE
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