August 14th Anniversary: ​​The Great Slave Rebellion

Uruguayan Student Martyrs’ DayBetween 1968 and 1973, many people, including minors, were killed by the military and civilian dictatorship.

Pakistan Independence Day. Ending British control.

Flag Day in Paraguay.

World Lizard Day. Some lizard species are threatened by wildlife trafficking, although advances in deforestation and fires have also wreaked havoc on these animals.

EgyptIn 1556, the Portuguese settled near Guangzhou, China and founded Macau..

In 1770, Mariano Matamoros y Guerrilla, a Mexican liberal priest who participated in the Mexican War of Independence, was born in Mexico City..

In 1777, Danish physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted was born, who discovered the magnetic effects of electric current..

In 1791, a slave uprising began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue, and the rebellion reached its peak 12 years later with the founding of the Republic of Haiti.. In August 1791, a black slave uprising began in the French colony of Saint-Domingue and spread, eventually leading to the abolition of slavery and the independence of what is now Haiti. On the night of August 14-15, the Bouacaiman Oath was held, calling for the freedom of black slaves, and the slave uprising in the Limbe region, which expanded to the entire state of Chabo, was a precursor to the abolition of slavery and the Haitian independence movement.

In 1881, Cuban doctor Carlos Finlay successfully proved that the vector of yellow fever was the Aedes aegypti mosquito..

In 1903, Ramón Díaz Sanchez was born, a Venezuelan writer and politician known for his novels depicting key aspects of Venezuelan society.: Mene, Cumboto, Casandra and Burburata.

In 1910, an 8-kilometer-long canal between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea was opened in Panama..

In 1912, North American troops under the command of General Butler invaded Nicaragua. and occupied the streets of its capital, Managua. The U.S. Marines moved to aid the weakened regime of Nicaraguan President Adolfo Díaz, which was unable to contain a popular uprising that threatened to overthrow him. The U.S. occupation, which ended in 1933, would face resistance from the guerrillas of Augusto César Sandino. The United States intervened in several Latin American countries in the first decades of the 20th century.

In 1913, the world’s longest water pipeline at that time was completed in Los Angeles, USA, with a total length of more than 400 kilometers..

In 1920, in Antwerp, Belgium, celebrations of the Olympic Games (the seventh Olympiad) resumed after a hiatus due to World War I..

In 1926, Venezuelan director, screenwriter and film producer Margot Benacerraf was born..

Venezuelan actress and singer Lila Morillo was born in Zulia in 1940.known primarily for its songs framed by the Zuliana bagpipe genre and Venezuelan Creole music. Listen to Lila Morillo.

In 1941, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt (USA) signed the Atlantic Charter, which stipulated the treatment of allied, enemy and neutral countries during World War II..

August 14, 1942 was one of the most intense days of World War II.. Many of Hitler’s troops attack Stalingrad (USSR). German submarines engage in a three-day battle with a British convoy, and the British report that their aircraft carrier HMS Eagle has been destroyed. Western Greece, American bombers attack a Nazi warship.

(Japan surrendered in World War II in 1945, shortly after acquiring two atomic bombs. Initiated by the United States.

In 1956, the German playwright, poet and politician Bertolt Brecht died in Berlin (Germany).One of the most influential figures of the 20th century, the creator of the so-called “epic drama”. Death In East Berlin. He was one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, and his works include: “The Life of Galileo”, “Mother Courage and Her Children” and “The Caucasian Chalk Circle”. He also wrote prose and poetry, and was a librettist of musical works. One of his quotes is very famous: “Some people struggle for one day and are good. Some struggle for a year and are even better. Some struggle for many years and are excellent. But there are also some who struggle their whole lives: those are indispensable”

In 1958, Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie (born 1900), a French nuclear physicist and chemist and winner of the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the synthesis of new radioactive elements, died..

In 1959, one of the most outstanding basketball players, “Magic” Johnson, was born in the United States. He won 5 championships in the NBA and participated in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and won a gold medal.

Eric Gandini (now a Swedish citizen) was born in Italy in 1967. He is a film director, producer and writer. He has made many films and documentaries, including “Sacrifice: Who Betrayed Che Guevara?” (2001), Surplus – Being Intimidated into Being a Consumer (2003), and Vieocracy (2009).

In 1980, a historic 17-day workers’ strike broke out at the Gdansk Shipyard, shocking Poland and marking the birth of the first independent trade union in a country that was considered “communist”. Solidarność (Spanish for “Solidarity”) was a non-governmental workers’ organization founded by leader Lech Walesa and other trade unionists who were against the Stalinist government led by General Jaruzelski (a very authoritarian regime that was mistakenly called “communism”). He later led a broad social movement to restore democratic freedoms to the country and free it from the rule of the Soviet bureaucracy, but this would be influenced by the capitalist powers and the Catholic Church, although it also gathered some members who were part of the anti-Stalinists who demanded true democratic socialism.

The 9th Pan American Games opens in Caracas, Venezuela (1983).

The Alejandro Otero Museum inaugurated in Caracas (1990).

Writer Elías Canetti, who died in 1994, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981 for his studies of mass movements and dictatorships.Especially Nazism, the brutality of German National Socialism. The British analyst and writer on the nationalization of Bulgaria wrote an article “The Masses and Power”.

In 1994, the Sudanese government detained and handed over to France Venezuelan Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, alias “Carlos”, in Khartoum.accused of “terrorism”; a guerrilla fighter and former member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). He was sentenced to life imprisonment in France, but others consider him a fighter for the anti-Zionist cause.

In 1998, Venezuela transformed the Paraguana Peninsula into a “free zone” for tourism investment and trade.which was criticized by the Bolivarian class. But twenty years later, after Nicolás Maduro came to power, the Special Economic Zones Law came into being.

2000: The UN Security Council calls for the establishment of a special independent tribunal to prosecute those responsible for serious human rights violations in Sierra Leone. The Special Court for Sierra Leone was established on November 30, 1996.

2002: The world’s largest floating structure sails to Monaco in the Bay of Algeciras (Spain).built by Spanish groups FCC and Dragados. The pier is 350 meters long and 19 meters high, with 400 parking spaces, a cruise ship port and docking facilities for cruise ships over 200 meters in length.

2003: In France, the government admitted that the heat wave had killed 3,000 people, but medical centers treated far more.. As heat waves continue to hit France and other European countries for several summers in a row, it is inevitable that people will realize that the effects of climate change are already dangerous and will continue to repeat themselves.

2004: At least 50 civilians were killed in the bombing of the Sunni city of Samarra (Iraq) by US aircraft..

In 2013, Russian brothers Pável and Nikolai Dúrov launched the messaging app or social network Telegramwith millions of users around the world. Telegram provides privacy and security to its users with features like end-to-end encrypted secret chats, self-destructing messages, and the ability to create public channels to spread information.

2016: South African Wayde van Niekerk sets a world record in the 400m sprint in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 43 minutes and 3 seconds, surpassing Michael Johnson.

In 2019, Frenchwoman Stéphanie Frappart became the first female referee to referee a UEFA men’s football final.

Venezuelan intellectual Roberto Hernandez Montoya dies. Version: www.aporrea.org/actualidad/n385345.html