1825:The Uruguayan Orientals decree the independence of the Eastern Bank of the country from Brazil, after the victory of the uprising led by the so-called group of the Thirty-Three.
1883: In Indonesia, the fourth and most violent day of the Krakatoa volcano eruption occurs, which will leave a balance of 36,417 fatalities. Four explosions are recorded (at 5:00 a.m.
1909: In the city of Monterrey (Nuevo Leon) The strongest flood in Monterrey Mexico | Tragic day ((Nuevo Leon))
1910In the United States, Thomas Edison carries out the first demonstration of the kinetoscope, a cinematograph with sound.
1914In Africa, French and British soldiers occupy German Togoland.
1939: Germany demands the return of Danzig and the “Polish corridor”.
1941In the Soviet Union, during the Second World War, the Baltic Fleet evacuates the naval base in Tallinn.
1955: The Guinness Book of Records is published for the first time.
1957In the Rio de la Plata, the Argentine ship Ciudad de Buenos Aires collides with the American freighter Mormack Surf; more than a hundred people die in the accident.
1958: A Soviet satellite returns to Earth after failing to put into orbit; its crew, two dogs, return safely.
1958: Montserrat Tresserras and José Vitos swim across the English Channel.
1962: United States launches the Mariner 2 probe towards Venus.
1965: British musical band The Beatles visits Elvis Presley at his mansion in Graceland.
1967: On Pancasán Hill (Nicaragua), the National Guard of dictator Anastasio Somoza kills several FSLN (Sandinista National Liberation Front) guerrillas.
1978:The Shah of Iran appoints Jafar Sharif-Emami as prime minister.
1981: at the Nevada Test Site (about 100 km northwest of Las Vegas), at 6:00 a.m.
1997:A group of archaeologists discovers in the El Pendo Cave (Cantabria) one of the largest friezes of cave paintings in the world, estimated to be 20,000 years old.
2003: Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, coming within 55,758,005 km.
