World Social Media Day

Today is June 30, 2024, the 182nd day of this year. Because this year is a leap year, there are still 184 days until the end, as it has 366 days. Today is Sunday.

A leap year occurs every four years, when one day is added to February (29 F), making the year 366 days.

Anniversaries are events, celebrations or commemorations of BroadCast Unitedlectual, cultural and artistic, historical or scientific significance that occur on the same date but in different years. They include days dedicated to a particular theme or purpose.

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Some anniversaries correspond to today, June 30:

1. World Infertility Month ends. Version: June 1st Memorial Day.
2. International Asteroid Day. Commemorates the impact of the Tunguska bolide in Siberia (Russia) on June 30, 1908, which destroyed large tracts of territory. This anniversary commemoration aims to raise public awareness of the dangers of asteroid impacts to Earth and to strengthen space surveillance, as well as prediction and contingency planning for these rare but possible events.
3. International Parliamentarism DayThe goal is to emphasize the advantages of parliamentarism: the functions of parliament, such as the formulation and approval of laws, the election of members of the executive branch (in some countries) or the supervision of its actions, the direction of public policy and the course of action of the state, the integration and appointment of members of other constitutional bodies…
4. World Social Media DayIts main goal is to make social networks a tool that allows people around the world to communicate more and better, and a means of understanding the situation using global platforms such as the Internet. You can consult, share and follow on Twitter @Aporreawith about 350,000 followers. Social networks have a positive impact, allowing anyone, individuals and organizations to spread information openly, although they are also a medium for abuse or the spread of lies, and powerful elements intervene to manipulate information and opinions, and even criminalize the speech spread in this way. However, there is no doubt that the main role of social networks is their contribution to democratization and freedom of expression.
5. International Decorator’s Day.
6. World Arthrogryposis Multiplex DayIts aim is to raise awareness of this rare congenital and neuromuscular disease among people around the world.
7. In 1577, the city of Altamira de Cáceres was founded, now known as Barinas. (Venezuela) after moving from its original settlement. The founder was the Spanish captain Juan Andrés Varela, acting on the orders of the Viceroy of La Grita Francisco de Cáceres. The date is controversial due to the different years, months and days cited in the sources, but the record of its founding in the Archives of the Indies (Seville – Spain) cites June 30, 1577 as its founding date.
8. Carmelo Fernández Páez (died 1887) was born in 1809. He was a Venezuelan engineer, soldier, draftsman, lithographer, and watercolorist.His most famous work is the 1873 portrait of Bolivar, which is on Venezuela’s national currency.
9. Manuel Amador Guerrero, a politician and physician who became the first constitutional president of the Republic of Panama, was born in Tulbaco (in present-day Colombia) in 1833. One of the administrators of Panama’s separation from Colombia (November 1903).
10. In 1859, in the United States, French acrobat Charles Blondin crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope.Blondin’s fame and fortune were due in part to his idea for a 335-meter-long trek across the gorge below Niagara Falls, on a tightrope fifty meters above the water.
11. In 1862, the final chapter of Victor Hugo’s most famous novel, Les Misérables, was published in France.a story about the fight against social injustice that will transcend the times and become a global reference and symbol of the struggle of the oppressed.
12. In 1865, an arbitration ruling approved Venezuela’s sovereignty over the Caribbean island of Avis. The island is considered a national sanctuary for seabird breeding and green turtles (an endangered species). Avis Island is the northernmost island territory of Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea, and its waters mark Venezuela’s maritime border with the rest of the Antilles and the United States.
13. In 1905, Albert Einstein published four works of great scientific value, including the theory of special relativity..
14. In 1920, Venezuela enacted its first Law on Hydrocarbons and Other Fuel Minerals..
15. In 1923, Juan Crisóstomo Gómez (born 1860), brother of President Juan Vicente Gómez (Venezuelan dictator), was murdered in the Miraflores Palace.. He was called Juancho Gomez.
16. Pompeyo Davalillo (born 2013) is a Venezuelan baseball player, national baseball player and manager, and the fourth player to play in Major League Baseball..
17. 1934 Production of The Night of the Long Kniveswhen Adolf Hitler implemented Operation Hummingbird, an internal purge of the National Socialist Party, in which the entity eliminated Nazi leaders who disagreed with the “Führer’s” line. The number of people murdered is high and inaccurate.
18. In 1939, Venezuelan lawyer, journalist, and poet Eduardo López Bustamante (born 1881) died.A prominent Venezuelan BroadCast Unitedlectual and figure in Venezuelan jurisprudence during the first half of the twentieth century. He became famous as a defender of human rights and freedoms during the dictatorship of General Juan Vicente Gómez.
19. In 1956, the fourth Mini-Football World Cup was held at the Olympic Stadium of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) in Caracas.Vasco da Gama (Brazil), Roma (Italy), Porto (Portugal) and Real Madrid participated.
20. In 1960, the Belgian Congo gained independence from Belgium and was renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.A few days later, a rebellion would break out and Belgium would send in troops without the consent of the new government, with the aim of “restoring public order and protecting Belgian citizens who still remained in the country”.
21. In 1971, three Russian cosmonauts were found dead after a Soviet spacecraft landed.Despite a flawless landing in Kazakhstan (USSR), the three Russian cosmonauts of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft (Lt. Col. Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Pasayev) were found dead in the capsule with no apparent physical injuries. Subsequent investigations determined that they died of high blood pressure due to rapid cabin decompression caused by a leak in a hole when the capsule separated from the service module shortly before landing.
22. In 2002, Spanish banking institutions stopped exchanging the Spanish currency “pesetas”, which became legal tender. Just before that, on February 28. From then on, the change could only be made at the Bank of Spain.
23. In 2002, Brazil won the world football championship for the fifth time. They defeated Germany 2-0 in Yokohama, Japan, to win their fifth World Cup title.
24. In 2005, the Spanish Chamber of Deputies finally approved a law authorizing civil marriage between same-sex couples.
25. In 2008, Microsoft stopped selling Windows XP.5
26. In 2011, after a series of rumors and much uncertainty about his health, President Chavez announced that he had cancer and was undergoing treatment.; reveals he underwent a second tumor surgery in Havana. Venezuelans are deeply fearful about the fate of the Bolivarian Revolution, in which their active leadership was crucial.
27. In 2017, Germany’s lower house of parliament approved same-sex marriage law.
28. In 2018, in China, the construction of the world’s largest airport was completed.
29. In 2020, Venezuelan TV host Guillermo “Fantastic” González died in Spain. (born 1945). He is a Spanish presenter, actor and businessman classified as Venezuelan. His show broke audience records How much is this show worth? in the 1980s.
30. In 2022, Congress approved the Special Economic Zones Bill (Consistent, according to AN directive). The non-establishment left and “dissident” Chavistas describe the law as neoliberal and capitulationist, and say it is harmful to the rights of the working class. (Video) National Assembly approves Special Economic Zones Bill (aporrea.org) See the law in the Official Gazette: https://observatorio.gob.ve/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Ley-organica-de-las-zonas-economicas-especiales.pdf

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Due to space reasons, only a portion of the content has been published, and other anniversaries omitted this time may be included in future years’ editions.

The ephemeris we publish are the result of research, compilation and elaboration carried out by Aporrea in collaboration with Maricarmen Gómez F. (author of articles and other content). http://www.aporrea.org

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