what happened on a day like today

2024-04-09 09:30:00

Consult everything published about ephemerides in The voice.

2012 – FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM. 12 years ago, the social network Facebook spent $1 billion to buy Instagram.

At that time, the photo publishing application had 25 million subscribers in contrast to the billion users of the giant led by Mark Zuckerberg.

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More anniversaries

1812 – SLAVERY EXPEDITIONS. The Buenos Aires City Council approves a law that “absolutely prohibits the introduction of slavery expeditions” (entry of slaves) into the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, whose population at that time had a third of slaves of African origin.

1816 – SAO TOME. The pact between the provinces of Buenos Aires and Santa Fe is signed in the Santa Fe city of Santo Tomé in order to avoid a “bloody internal war” in the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata. By the Pact of Santo Tomé, General Manuel Belgrano was separated from the command of the Army stationed in the city of Rosario.

1821 – CHARLES BAUDELAIRE. The French poet, essayist and art critic Charles Pierre Baudelaire, considered one of the most provocative and revolutionary writers of the 19th century, was born in Paris.

1933 – JEAN P. BELMOND. French actor Jean Paul Belmondo, one of the main figures of the cultural movement known as Nouvelle Vague and winner of the Palme d’honneur at the Cannes Festival, was born in the city of Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine, France). He filmed around 70 films over a six-decade career.

1956 – MIGUEL A. RUSSO. Former soccer player Miguel Ángel Russo, current coach of Boca Juniors, was born in Buenos Aires, whom he also coached when they won the 2007 Copa Libertadores de América. Russo, who trained as a player in Estudiantes de La Plata, was technical director of teams of seven countries (Argentina, Chile, Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Paraguay).

Miguel Ángel Russo won the 2023 Professional League Cup with Rosario Central.

1963 – KHUL SOLAR. At the age of 75, the painter, sculptor, musician, astrologer and writer Xul Solar (Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari) dies in Buenos Aires, whose work traveled the world and was a source of artistic inspiration during the 20th century.

Xul Solar: the magician of the avant-garde

1979 – MARADONA AND PELÉ. The Argentine star Diego Maradona and the Brazilian Pelé meet in Rio de Janeiro, the first meeting between the two greats of world football. It was organized by the Argentine sports magazine El Grafico for an interview with the two stars.

Diego and Pelé, in one of their first meetings.

1984 – NICARAGUA GOVERNMENT. The Government of Nicaragua asks the United Nations International Court of Justice, based in the Dutch city of The Hague, to open a process against the United States for violating international law by financing and supporting the armed opposition of the “Contras”. ”. In 1986, the court ruled in favor of Nicaragua, but the US rejected the ruling, arguing that it lacked jurisdiction in the case.

1998 – TRAGEDY IN MECCA. A total of 118 Muslim worshipers die in the Saudi city of Mecca when they were crushed in a stampede that occurred on the last day of the Islamic ritual Haj pilgrimage.

Disaster. Ten kilometers east of Mecca, hundreds of bodies were left lying on the ground (AP).

Other anniversaries of April 9

1548.- Battle of Joaquijaguana (Peru). Alfonso de Alvarado and Pedro de Lagasca defeat the forces of Gonzalo Pizarro, in rebellion against the king of Spain.
1682.- Discovery of the mouth of the Mississippi River by the French explorer Robert Cavalier, sir de La Salle.
1844.- The Constituent Assembly of Costa Rica approves a new liberal Constitution.
1865.- The Civil War ends. Rober E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant meet in Appomattox (USA) to sign the surrender of the Confederates.
1866.- The Civil Rights Act is enacted in the United States.
1917.- World War I: Battle of Vimy Hill (Pas de Calais), in which the Canadians defeat the Germans.
1933.- The Peruvian president Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro repeals the 1920 Constitution promulgated by Augusto Leguía.
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1948.- Murder in Bogotá of the leader of the Colombian liberal party Jorge Eliecer Gaitán. The violence that followed gave rise to the so-called “bogotazo.”
.- Signature of the Franco-Perón Protocol by which Argentina grants Spain a credit of 350 million pesos annually until 1951.
1952.- The Bolivian National Revolution triumphs.
1953.- The Warner Brothers studio releases the first 3-D film in the United States, titled “House of Wax.”
1956.- Habib Burguiba, elected prime minister of Tunisia.
1958.- The heart-lung machine, very useful in cardiology operations, was presented in the USA.
1966.- Cardinal Ottaviani announces in Rome the annulment of the Index of books prohibited by the Catholic Church.
1967.- First flight of the Boeing 737, in the city of Seattle (United States).
1973.- Israel launches Operation Youth Spring in Lebanon against important PLO targets, in revenge for the Munich massacre.
1977.- The Communist Party of Spain was legalized by personal decision of the President of the Government, Adolfo Suárez.
1986.- Benazir Bhutto, opposition leader, returns to Pakistan after two years of voluntary exile in London.
1987.- Historical visit of the top Soviet leader, Mijail Gorbachev, to Czechoslovakia.
1989.- The Soviet army crushes an anti-Soviet demonstration in Tbilisi (Georgia), known as the April 9 Tragedy.
1991.- The Soviet Republic of Georgia declares independence from the USSR.
1992.- Sali Berisha, elected the first democratic president of Albania since 1924.
1999.- The president of Niger, General Ibrahim Baré Minasara, is assassinated during a coup d’état.
2003.- The regime of the dictator, Saddam Hussein, falls after the capture of Baghdad, three weeks after the invasion of Iraq by United States troops.
2005.- Charles of England and Camilla Parker Bowles contract a civil marriage at Windsor Town Hall.
2007.- Iran announces that it produces uranium on an industrial level.
2012.- Facebook acquires Instagram for $1 billion
2017.- Forty-six dead in two attacks against Coptic churches in northern Egypt.
2019.- A team led by Spanish researchers manages to completely eliminate pancreatic cancer in mice for the first time.
.- The OAS recognizes the Venezuelan Gustavo Tarre as a permanent representative “designated” by the Parliament of Venezuela, chaired by the opposition leader, Juan Guaidó.