Madrid, Dec 13 (EFE). – Santoral for Monday, December 14, 2020: Santos Arsenio, Isidoro, Juan de la Cruz, Justo and Nicasio.
The Sun rises tomorrow at 07:30 and sets at 4:49 (GMT).
The Moon rises tomorrow at 07.11 and sets at 15.42 (GMT).
1900.- The German scientist Max Planck presents in Berlin a theoretical derivation of his black body radiation law, considered the origin of quantum mechanics.
1911.- The Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen arrives at the South Pole.
1927.- King Alfonso XIII presides over the act of the first commercial flight of the Spanish airline Iberia that linked Madrid with Barcelona.
1930.- Execution of captains Galán and García Hernández, by the republican uprising in Jaca (Huesca).
1932.- Francesc Maciá formally elected president of the Generalitat of Catalonia by the Parliament arising from the Statute of Autonomy.
1942.- The Law of Compulsory Health Insurance in Spain was approved.
1947.- The Real Madrid soccer team inaugurates the Santiago Bernabéu stadium in the Spanish capital.
.- The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is founded and organizes the most popular automobile championship in the United States.
1955.- Spain and 15 other countries join the UN.
1966.- In Spain the Organic Law of the State promoted by the dictator Francisco Franco was approved in a referendum.
1967.- King Constantine leaves Greece for exile.
1972.- American cosmonaut Eugene Cernan, in command of the Apollo XVII mission, becomes the last human being to step on the surface of the Moon.
1981.- The Israeli Parliament approves the annexation of the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in the 1967 war.
1988.- Spain paralyzed by a general strike called by the unions Comisiones Obreras and Unión General de Trabajadores against the government’s economic policy.
1994.- Construction of the Three Gorges Dam, in the middle of the Yangtze River, begins in China, the largest in the world with 2,309 meters wide and 186 meters high.
1995.- Signing in the Elysee Palace in Paris the peace agreement for Bosnia, which ends three and a half years of war.
2005.- The Congress of Deputies approves the Anti-Smoking Law, one of the most restrictive in the European Union.
2010.- An international team, which includes Spain, announces a therapy against breast cancer that eliminates the tumor, before surgery, in half of the cases.
2013.- China becomes the third country (after the Soviet Union and the United States) to land a ship on lunar soil.
2019.- The former president of Sudan, Omar al Bashir, sentenced to two years for corruption.
BIRTHS
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1503.- Michel de Nostradamus, French astrologer.
1831.- Arsenio Martínez Campos, Spanish military and politician.
1853.- Salvador Díaz Mirón, Mexican writer.
1895.- George VI, King of England.
1914.- Karl Carstens, German politician and lawyer.
1916.- José María García Escudero, Spanish historian.
1920.- Orlando Pelayo, Spanish painter.
1935.- Lee Remick, American actress.
1938.- Leonardo Boff, Brazilian, theorist of Liberation Theology.
1946.- Jane Birkin, British actress.
1950.- José Bono, Spanish politician.
1976.- Santiago Ezquerro, Spanish soccer player.
1979.- Michael Owen, British footballer.
1987.- Ana Polvorosa, Spanish actress.
1992.- Claudia Traisac, Spanish actress.
DEATHS
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1788.- Carlos III, King of Spain.
1799.- George Washington, American president.
1978.- Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish essayist and diplomat.
1984.- Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet, Nobel Prize 1977.
1986.- Pedro Sáinz Rodríguez, Spanish politician and academic.
1989.- Andrei Sakharov, Soviet physicist, Nobel Peace Prize 1975.
1993.- Myrna Loy, American actress.
2002.- Enrique Tarigo, Uruguayan politician, former Vice President of the Republic.
2005.- Enrich Folch Ríos, Spanish editor.
2007.- José María Gil-Albert, former attorney general of the Spanish State.
2008.- Ramón Barce, Spanish composer.
2010.- Neva Patterson, American actress.
2013.- Peter O’Toole, Irish actor.
2014.- Juan Roldán, Spanish painter.
2015.- Elena Asins, artist and art critic.
2018.- Remedios Loza, first indigenous Aymara parliamentarian in Bolivia.
2019.- Anna Karina, Danish actress. EFE
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