Ephemeris of January 12: 2010, earthquake shakes Haiti 300,000 dead

On January 12, 2010, an earthquake shakes Haiti and causes some 300,000 deaths.

Other Ephemeris of January 12

1807.- Part of the city of Leiden (Netherlands) is destroyed by the explosion of a ship loaded with gunpowder.

1899.- The Argentine school frigate “Presidente Sarmiento” undertakes its first circumnavigation voyage.

1909.- The Turkish Government accepts the Austrian proposal to renounce its rights over Bosnia-Herzegovina in exchange for financial compensation.

1936.- The Spanish-Cuban aviator Antonio Menéndez Peláez takes off from Camagüey airport (Cuba) to make a solo transatlantic flight to Seville, where he arrived on February 14.

1969.- Led Zeppelin releases its first album.

1981.- The first chapter of the television series “Dynasty” is broadcast.

1988.- The world’s first “test tube” quintuplets are born in Michigan (USA).

1995.- The French president, Francois Mitterrand, inaugurates the largest musical complex in Europe in Paris, with a surface area of ​​50,000 square metres.

1998.- Nineteen European countries sign in Paris the protocol of the Council of Europe that prohibits the cloning of human beings, the first international legal text on this matter.

1999.- The American singer Britney Spears releases her first album “…Baby One More Time”.

2005.- The United States announces the end of the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

2006.- More than three hundred pilgrims die in Mecca due to an avalanche.

2009.- The first transaction in the bitcoin digital currency network is carried out.

2015.- Cuba completes the release of 53 political prisoners, agreed with the US.

2016.- A suicide bomber from the Islamic State (IS) kills ten German tourists near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul (Turkey).

2017.- The US puts an end to the “dry foot/wet foot” policy for Cubans, which allowed them to obtain permanent residence within a year of arriving, even illegally.

BIRTHS

1628.- Charles Perrault, French writer of children’s stories.

1746.- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss pedagogue.

1893.- Hermann Goering, Nazi leader and war criminal.

1907.- Sergei Korolev, Ukrainian engineer, considered the father of the Soviet space program.

1916.- Pieter Wilhelm Botha, former South African president.

1933.- Liliana Cavani, Italian film director.

1949.- Haruki Murakami, Japanese writer.

1964.- Jeff Bezos, American businessman, founder of Amazon.

1966.- Olivier Martinez, French actor.

1968.- Mauro da Silva Gomes, former Brazilian soccer player.

1972.- Quique Dacosta, Spanish chef.

1993.- Zayn Malik, British singer.

1995.- Nathy Peluso, Argentine singer.

1998.- Nathan Gamble, American actor.

DEATHS

1963.- Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Spanish writer.

1976.- Agatha Christie, British writer of detective novels.

1991.- Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer.

2002.- Cyrus Vance, American politician.

2003.- Leopoldo Galtieri, former dictator of Argentina.

2004.- Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician.

2008.- Angel González, Spanish poet.

2009.- Claude Berri, French filmmaker.

2015.- Juan José López-Ibor Aliño, Spanish psychiatrist.

2017.- William Peter Blatty, American writer and screenwriter, author of “The Exorcist”.

2021.- Enrique Pineda Barnet, Cuban filmmaker.

2022.- Ronnie Spector, American singer, vocalist of the group The Ronettes.