On September 5, however, in 1951, Mexico ended the process of nationalizing oil with the purchase of the American company “Sharo”.
Other occasions:
1646: Spanish Bishop Juan de Palafox founded the Palafoxian Library in Puebla (Mexico), the first public library in America, with a donation from his personal library.
1791: Publication of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Citizen, a text written by Olympia de Gouges.
1910. – Marie Curie and André-Louis Deburn reported to the Academy of Sciences that they prepared radium in a metallic state.
1920. – General Álvaro Obregón (Mexican Workers’ Party) wins the presidential election.
1921 – Opening of the Cervantes Theater in Buenos Aires.
1929 – French Prime Minister Aristide Briand proposes to the League of Nations a constitution for the United States of Europe.
1936. – American Beryl Markham, the first woman to fly solo over the Atlantic Ocean in an east-west direction.
1944. – The governments of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg in London, where they were exiled due to World War II, sign the Treaty (Benelux) establishing their customs union.
1957 – About two hundred sailors and supporters of the 26th of July movement rose up in Cienfuegos (Cuba) against Fulgencio Batista.
1960. – The poet Leopoldo Sedar Senghor is elected president of Senegal.
1972. – A Palestinian commando from “Black September” attacks the residence of Israeli athletes in the Munich Olympics and kills 11 athletes and five members of the aforementioned terrorist organization.
1977.- The United States launched the space probe “Voyager 1” to observe Jupiter and Saturn.
1981.- Lech Walesa, appointed head of “Solidarity” at the opening of the first congress of the Polish trade union.
1986.-17 killed and 100 wounded in a Pakistani army attack on a Pan American plane that had been hijacked in Karachi by an armed Arab commando group.
1991. – Approval of the First Declaration of Human Rights and Freedoms in the USSR and the Autonomy of the USSR Congress.
2002. – The International Monetary Fund avoids Argentina’s suspension of payments by extending the maturity of its debts for another year.
2004. – Former Costa Rican President Rafael Angel Calderon leaves the ruling Christian Social Unity Party and is investigated for his involvement in a corruption scandal.
2006. – The Electoral Tribunal announces the election of Felipe Calderon as President of Mexico.
2014. – Former Salvadoran President Francisco Flores, a fugitive for four months on charges of illicit enrichment, is handed over to justice.
2018. – Mass peaceful rally in Mexico towards UNAM, with about 30,000 people from the educational field, demonstrating against violence on this campus.
Newborns. –
1638. – Louis XIV of France, “Sun King.”
1704 – Maurice Quentin de la Tour, French painter.
1905. – Arthur Koestler, Austro-Hungarian writer.
1914 – Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet.
1920. – Douglas C. North, American economist, 1993 Nobel Prize.
1940. – Raquel Welch, American actress.
1942 – Werner Herzog, German filmmaker.
1946. – Freddie Mercury, British musician and leader of the Queen group.
1951.- Johan Neskens, former football player.
1965 – Cesar Rincon, Colombian bullfighter.
Death cases.-
1857.- Auguste Comte, French philosopher.
1914. – Charles Peggy, French writer.
1926. – Alejandro Pérez Lujín, Spanish writer.
1983.- Antonio Mairena, Spanish flamenco singer.
1997. – Teresa of Calcutta, Indo-Albanian saint, Nobel Peace Prize.
2010. – Shuya Tomizawa, a Japanese female motorcycle driver.
2015. – Joan Rivers, American actress, comedian and presenter.
2018. – Rachel Bland, British television presenter.
2019. – Francisco Toledo, Mexican painter.
2020. – Jerry Menzel, Czech film director, winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
2021. – Sarah Harding, former British singer from Girls Aloud. EFE
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