On May 4, but in 1954, General Alfredo Stroessner carried out a coup and later named himself President of the Republic of Paraguay.
Other ephemeris:
1589.- In Spain, the English corsair Francis Drake begins the assault on La Coruña, a square in which the heroic intervention of María Pita stood out.
1697.- The French corsair Jean Bernard Pointis sacks Cartagena de Indias and obtains great booty.
1704.- Archduke Carlos of Austria disembarks in Lisbon with 14,000 men to start the war of the Spanish succession.
1780.- The “Derby”, the famous English horse race, is run for the first time.
1814.- Fernando VII declares null and void the Constitution of 1812 and all the measures adopted by the Cortes of Cádiz.
1839.- The first number of the newspaper “El Comercio”, from Lima, the oldest in force in the country, is published.
1858.- Benito Juárez establishes the headquarters of the Mexican executive power in Veracruz.
1875.- The Ecuadorian Academy of Language is founded.
1904.- The United States formally assumes control of French ownership of the Panama Canal.
1938.- The Vatican recognizes the Franco government as legitimate in Spain.
1949.- All the members of the Torino (Italy) squad, base of the Italian national soccer team, die in a plane crash.
1979.- Margaret Thatcher is sworn in as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and becomes the first woman elected head of the British Government.
1980.- Constantino Karamanlis is elected president of Greece for the first time.
1990.- The Spanish biochemist Santiago Grisolía and the Honduran pharmacologist Salvador Moncada are awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research.
1994.- Isaac Rabin and Yasser Arafat sign a historic agreement for Palestinian autonomy in Gaza and Jericho in Cairo.
1996.- José María Aznar (PP) is sworn in as President of the Government of Spain.
2000.- The “I love you” computer virus paralyzes millions of computers around the world.
2001.- In Cali (Colombia), a vehicle loaded with explosives explodes in front of the Torre de Cali hotel, causing 4 deaths and around thirty injuries, including several players from the Once Caldas first division team.
2006.- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation obtains the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation.
2008 – In the Department of Santa Cruz (Bolivia), a referendum is held on the autonomy of this region, winning the “yes” vote with 85.6%.
2010.- The President of Cuba, Raúl Castro, adds military to his Government, in a new change of sectors in crisis.
2011.- The Palestinian group Al Fatah and the Islamist Hamas seal their reconciliation after four years of disputes.
2014.- Presidential elections are held in Panama that give victory to the opposition candidate Juan Carlos Varela.
2018.- ETA makes its dissolution official in the French town of Cambo-les-Bains (France) with the so-called “Arnaga Declaration”.
.- The Swedish Academy renounces awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature and postpones the ruling to 2019, after the scandal of leaks and alleged sexual abuse linked to the academy.
2020.- The WHO confirms the animal origin of coronavirus and refutes its creation in the laboratory.
BIRTHS.
1622.- Juan de Valdés Leal, Spanish painter.
1875.- Ramiro de Maeztu, Spanish writer and politician.
1925.- Luis Herrera Campins, Venezuelan politician.
1928.- Hosni Mubarak, former president of Egypt.
1929.- Audrey Hepburn, British actress born in Belgium.
1936.- Manuel Benítez “El Cordobés”, bullfighter.
1961.- Luis Herrera Herrera, “Lucho Herrera”, Colombian cyclist.
1987.- Jorge Lorenzo, Spanish motorcycling pilot.
DEATHS.
1937.- Noel de Medeiros Rosa, Brazilian musician, considered the creator of samba.
1980.- Josip Broz, “Tito”, former president of Yugoslavia.
1984.- Diana Dors, British actress.
1992.- Henri Guillemin, French writer and historian.
1995.- Lewis Preston, American banker, president of the World Bank from 1991 to 1995.
2010.- Angel Cristo, tamer and circus businessman, Spanish.
2015.- Jesús Hermida, Spanish journalist. EFE
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