On another June 23, but in 1988, NASA chief climatologist James Hansen announces before the US Congress that global warming has begun.
1797.- The German scientist Alexander von Humboldt measures Chimborazo (6,265 meters), a mountain in Ecuador in the Andes Mountains.
1894.- Foundation of the International Olympic Committee in Paris, at the initiative of Pierre de Coubertin.
1902.- Albert Einstein joins the Confederal Patent Office in Bern as an official.
1912.- A bridge collapses at Niagara Falls and 47 people die.
1931.- The American pilot Willy Post begins the first trip around the world by plane. It takes 8 days, 15 hours and 51 minutes.
1937.- The National Railways of Mexico company is created.
1940.- Second World War: Hitler visits Paris.
1949.- Pius XII decrees the excommunication of communists and sympathizers.
1961.- The Antarctic Treaty System comes into force.
1968.- 73 people die and more than 100 are injured in a soccer match in Buenos Aires when panic breaks out.
1976.- María Estela Martínez de Perón and 35 other Peronists are deprived of their political rights in Argentina.
1978.- Renato Curcio, founder of the Italian Red Brigades, sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
1983.- Former Cuban president Osvaldo Dorticós commits suicide in Havana.
1985.- The 329 occupants of an Air India Boeing die when it falls into the Atlantic Ocean due to a bomb explosion.
1989.- Official premiere of the film ‘Batman’.
1993.- The English mathematician Andrew Wiles demonstrates Fermat’s theorem after more than 350 years without being solved.
1996.- The Nintendo 64 video game console is launched.
2000.- Airbus announces the construction of the A3XX, the largest aircraft in the world.
2001.- Six departments in southern Peru are shaken by an earthquake of magnitude 6.9 on the Richter scale, which causes more than one hundred deaths.
.- Vladimiro Montesinos, former advisor to former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, detained in Venezuela.
2003.- The WHO announces that Hong Kong has controlled the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic, causing the death of 296 people.
.- Microsoft launches Windows Mobile 2003.
2007.- European leaders agree on the treaty that will replace the draft Constitution.
2008.- The EU approves lifting sanctions on Cuba.
2014.- The last chemical weapons declared by the Government leave Syria.
2016.- The United Kingdom decides to separate from the EU after 52% of the population supported it in a referendum.
.- The Colombian Government and the FARC sign a historic definitive ceasefire in Havana that puts an end to 50 years of conflict.
2017.- The Bolivian ELN guerrilla frees two Dutch journalists they were holding hostage.
2019.- The social democratic opposition wins the municipal elections in Istanbul (Turkey) and puts an end to 25 years of Islamist government in the capital.
2021.- Princess of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research for the 7 scientists who created the coronavirus vaccines.
.- John McAfee, creator of the computer antivirus, is found dead in his prison cell in Barcelona (Spain).
2022.- The US Supreme Court endorses carrying weapons in public.
2023.- The mercenaries of the Wagner group fighting in Ukraine rebel against the Russian military leadership.
1894.- Edward VIII of England, Duke of Windsor.
1912.- Alan Turing, English mathematician, one of the fathers of computing.
1919.- Mohamed Budiaf, Algerian president.
1930.- John H. Elliot, British historian and Hispanicist.
1939.- Álvaro Pombo, Spanish writer.
1940.- Wilma Glodean Rudolph ‘the black gazelle’, American athlete.
1943.- Vinton Gray Cerf, American computer scientist, one of the creators of the Internet.
1957.- Frances McDormand, American actress.
1943.- James Lavine, American conductor.
1963.- Colin Montgomerie, Scottish golfer.
1969.- Noa, Israeli singer.
1972.- Zinedine Zidane, French footballer and coach.
1980.- Francesca Schiavone, Italian tennis player.
.- Matías Varela, Swedish actor.
1995.- Dana Paola, Mexican actress and singer.
1995.- Jonas Edward Salk, American, discoverer of the polio vaccine.
1996.- Andreas Papandreou, former Greek Prime Minister.
1998.- Maureen O’Sullivan, American actress.
2000.- Peter Dubovsky, Czechoslovakian footballer.
2007.- Otto Raúl González, Guatemalan writer and poet.
2008.- Klaus Michael Grüber, German theater director.
2011.- Peter Falk, Colombo, American actor.
.-Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, French Egyptologist.
2018.- Donald Hall, American poet.
.- Alberto ‘Tito’ Fouillioux, Chilean soccer player.
2021.- John McAfee, creator of the antivirus with his name. EFE
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