On June 14, but in 1982, forty years ago, the Malvinas War ended with the surrender of the Argentine Army to British forces. Argentina, which claims sovereignty over the Malvinas, clashed with the United Kingdom following the military junta that de facto governed the country resolved a landing on the islands on April 2 of that year. In the conflict, which lasted 73 days, 649 Argentines, 255 British and three islanders died.
OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
1699.- Presentation at the Royal Society of London of the first steam engine, by the English mechanic Thomas Savery.
1791.- The French Republic proclaims freedom of work.
1777.- The Second US Continental Congress adopts the nation’s new flag, its famous stars and stripes.
1812.- The Constitution of Cartagena (Colombia) prohibited the trafficking of blacks and provided for the creation of a fund for manumission.
1904.- Failure of the Russian Army in Port Arthur.
1905.- The crew of the Russian battleship “Potemkin” rebels and shoots the commander and several officers.
1914.- World War I. A squadron of German planes bombs London, causing hundreds of casualties.
1920.- For the first time an artist makes herself heard in Europe through the radio: the singer Nelia Melba, who performed in London, was heard in Paris.
1940.- World War II: Entry of the German Army in Paris.
1942.- Anne Frank begins to write her diary.
1949.- A Vietnamese State is proclaimed under the Government of Bao Dai.
1962.- The European Space Research Organization (ESRO) is established, an organization oriented mainly to the development of satellites.
1964.- President Francisco Duvalier, who has been in office since 1957, is invested as president for life of the Republic of Haiti.
1966. – El Vaticano abole el Index books prohibitorum, listado de libros censurados.
1985.- Lebanese Shiite militiamen hijack a TWA plane as it was flying from Athens to Rome with 153 passengers on board. The kidnapping lasted 16 days.
1992.- The Earth Summit adopts in Rio de Janeiro Agenda 21, the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, and the Declaration of Principles on Forests.
1993.- The second World Conference on Human Rights was inaugurated in Vienna, which was overshadowed by the boycott of the invited Nobel Peace Prize winners.
1994.- Inauguration of the IV Ibero-American Summit in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), attended by 21 Heads of State and Government.
1995.- A Chechen command seizes a hospital in Budionovsk (Russia) and entrenches itself with 1,500 hostages, causing 129 deaths and more than 400 injuries.
2000.- The leaders of North and South Korea, Kim Jong-il and Kim Dae-jung, sign a historic agreement committing themselves to collaborate for the eventual reunification of the peninsula.
2002.- Russia abandons the START-II nuclear disarmament treaty, following the US exit from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM).
2005.- The Supreme Court of Argentina declares the Full Stop and Due Obedience laws unconstitutional.
2006.- The Mexican State Police evict thousands of teachers who were demonstrating to demand better wages from the center of the capital of the state of Oaxaca.
2007.- After several days of siege, Hamas takes control of Gaza and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, dissolves the Government of national unity.
2010.- The Japanese space probe Hayabusa lands in the Australian desert of Woomera, following spending seven years off the planet to collect samples from the asteroid Itokawa.
2012.- The Colombian Congress approves the Legal Framework for Peace.
2013.- The diplomat from Antigua and Barbuda John Ashe, new president of the UN General Assembly.
2016.- Looting and strong riots due to food shortages in several states of Venezuela.
2017.- 72 people die in the fire at the Grenfell housing tower in London.
BIRTHS
1906.- Margaret Bourke-White, American graphic reporter.
1928.- Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Cuban revolutionary of Argentine origin.
1937.- Espartaco Santoni, actor and film producer of Italian-Venezuelan origin.
1939.- Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer.
1946.- Donald Trump, American politician and businessman.
1958.- Olaf Scholf, German politician.
1969.- Steffi Graf, German tennis player.
1973.- Coti, Argentine singer and composer.
1982.— Lang Lang, Chinese pianist
DEATHS
1920.- Max Weber, German sociologist.
1936.- Gilbert Keith Chesterton, British writer.
1968.- Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959.
1986.- Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer.
1994.- Henry Mancini, American composer.
1999.- Osvaldo Dragun, Argentine director and playwright.
2007.- Kurt Waldheim, Austrian politician.
2011.- Augusto Ramírez Ocampo, former Colombian foreign minister.
2018.- Stanislav Govorujin, Russian film director.
