Looking back on the August 20 anniversary: What happens in the world on a day like today?

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On August 20, 1775, the Spanish established the Royal Prison of San Agustin del Tucson, which was the origin of the city of Tucson. Tucson （Arizona).

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Other anniversaries:

1813– Spanish troops surrender to Mexican troops and hand over the Plaza de Acapulco, a strategic location during the Mexican War of Independence.
1820– An expedition led by General San Martín sailed from the port of Valparaiso (Chile) to make Peru independent.
1847– During the war between Mexico and the United States, American troops led by General Winfield Scott defeated the Mexican army at the end of the Battle of Padiena.
1866– U.S. President Andrew Johnson officially declares the American Civil War over.
1911– The New York Times sends the first commercial telegram around the world, testing the transmission time and finding it takes only 16.5 minutes.
1920.-Station 8 MK in Detroit, USA, made the world’s first radio broadcast.
1935– The Ecuadorian military staged a coup, ending the first term of José María Velasco Ibarra’s presidency.
1940– Leon Trotsky was attacked at his home in exile in Mexico by Spaniard Ramon Mercader, who stabbed him in the head with an ice pick.
1968– Warsaw Pact Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia, ending the “Prague Spring” that had begun seven months earlier.
1975– The robotic space probe “Viking 1” is launched in the United States to explore the surface of Mars.
1977– NASA launches the Voyager 2 space probe, the only spacecraft to have visited the two giant planets, Uranus and Neptune.
1989– Nearly 60 people died when a tourist boat collided with the Bowbelle dredger on the Thames as it passed through London.
1991– The Estonian Parliament declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1992– Jordan’s parliament legalized multi-party politics after King Hussein promoted democratic opening in 1989.
1993– Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and PLO “number two” Mahmoud Abbas secretly decided in Oslo to implement autonomy in Gaza and Jericho, making it the first Israeli-Palestinian agreement, which was signed in Washington in December 2017. September 13.
1995– Leaders of seven factions involved in Liberia’s first civil war sign a peace agreement and restore democracy.
2005– Cuba and Panama re-established diplomatic relations which were severed in August 2004.
2008– A Spanair plane crashed as it prepared to take off at Madrid-Barajas airport bound for Gran Canaria, killing 154 people.
2014– Guatemalan Chief of Defense Staff, General Rudy Ortiz, died in a plane crash in Huehuetenango (Guatemala).
2015– France’s National Front expelled its co-founder Jean-Marie Le Pen from the party after he said the gas chambers in Nazi concentration camps were a detail of history.
2018.- NASA confirms the presence of water ice on the moon.
2020– Russian arch-opponent Alexei Navalny was poisoned on his way back to Moscow from the Siberian city of Tomsk. He will survive in a German hospital.
2021– Mexico confirmed that a Massachusetts court had recognized its historic lawsuit against several U.S. arms companies for weapons trafficking.
2022– Antauro Humala, a former soldier and brother of Peru’s former president Ollanta Humala (2011-16), was released from prison after spending two years redeeming part of a 17-year sentence for a 2005 rebellion. Work and study.
2023– Ecuador has decided in a historic referendum to stop oil extraction in Block 43-ITT, one of the country’s most important blocks, located in the Yasuni National Park (Amazon).

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born

1778.-Bernardo O’Higgins, hero and architect of Chilean independence.
1901– Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet, winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize.
1935.-Francisco Valladares, Spanish actor.
1937.- José Luis Cantero “El Fary”, Spanish singer.
1941.-Slobodan Milosevic, former President of Serbia.
1944.-Rajiv Gandhi, Indian politician.
1946.-Laurent Fabius, French politician.
1948.- Robert Plant, Ode to Led Zeppelin.
1992.- Demi Lovato, American actress and singer.

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Death toll

1572.-Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, Conqueror of the Philippines.
1854.-Joseph Schelling, German philosopher.
1914.- Pope Pius X.
1915.- Paul Erlich, German physician and researcher.
1917.-Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist and Nobel Prize winner.
1994– Linus Pauling, American, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954 and Peace Prize 1962.
2006.- Joe Rosenthal, American war photographer and journalist. Pulitzer Prize for Photography
2012.-Tony Scott, British film producer.
2017.-Jerry Lewis, American comedian.
2018.- Andrés Aylwin, Chilean Christian Democratic politician.
2021.- Arturo Cuenca, Cuban plastic artist and conceptual painter
2023– Daniel Cohen is a French economist specializing in sovereign debt.