translated from Spanish: Ephemeris Tuesday 2 April 2019

on 2 April 2005 death of the Polish Pope Juan Pablo II, aged 84, after 26 years of pontificate.

Other efemerides:1453-Mohamed II, the magnificent site of Constantinople begins with 300,000 men and 1,400 galeras.1513.-Juan Ponce de León takes possession of Florida on behalf of the Crown of Castilla.1782.-born Federico Froebel, German educator, founder of kindergartens (Kindergarten).1792-born Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian military, who was President of the Republic… -First issue of the dollar estadounidense.1805-born Hans Christian Andersen, writer danes.1840-born Emile Zola, writer frances.1854.-begins publication in Paris ‘Le Figaro’.1884-inauguration of the National Library of mexico.1885-defeat of Guatemalan troops against the Salvadorians on the site of Chalchuapa, on the banks of the Peace River. General Barrios, President of Guatemala, dies in the contienda.1914-born Alec Guinness, actor britanico.1917.-first World War: the U.S. Congress votes in favour of the entry into the contest with aliadas.1920 powers.-German army enters in the Ruhr to put an end to the activities of the “Red Army” of this zona.1926-born Jack Brabham, Australian racing, world champion of Formula Uno.1927-born Ferenc Puskas, Spanish footballer born in hungria.1930-die Osmán Pérez Freire, pilot composer chileno.1940.-publication of “poet in New York”, by Federico García Lorca.1946-a tsunami swept the shores of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and Hawaii. Die personas.1947 300.-the UN Security Council gives us the management mandate of the Caroline Islands, Palau, Marshall and Mariana Islands, previously managed by japon.1951.-the general Eisenhower assumed the post of Supreme Commander of the forces of OTAN.1959.-mining strike in Bolivia, more than 100 000 workers still… -Born Juha Kankkunen, Finnish pilot, several times champion rallies.1960-born Linford Christie, British exatleta, Olympic champion and mundial.1974.-dies Georges Pompidou, former President of Francia.1981.-it is recorded in the Lebanon the most violent fighting Since 1978, between the Syrian troops and militias cristianas.1982.-Argentine troops started occupation of the Malvinas Islands, under the Dominion of the Kingdom Unido.1987-a bus with 60 passengers is buried by a landslide in the basin road, to the Southeast of Guayaquil (Peru).1989.-the President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev starts an official visit to Cuba… -President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and the democratic constitutional grouping Government won elections in tunez.1990.-dies Aldo Fabrizi, actor and director cine.1992 Italian-mobster John Gotti is sentenced to life imprisonment by a Court of New York.1999.-at least 300 died in the sinking of a boat off the coast of Nigeria.2002.-some 200 Palestinian militiamen besieged by the israeli army took refuge in the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem, where 70 religiosos.2005-Riccardo Muti resigns, after 19 years as musical director of the Scala milan.2009.-dies Rudy Ventura, trumpeter and musico.2013.-the United Nations approved the Treaty on arms trade.

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