I have decided to publish the section '' A day in History'' to be informed about the important events in world history. It will be necessary to publish it in both languages: Spanish and English, due to the sites that publish this kind of information always forget to mention the events happened in Latin America, in case of English websites, or the events of the rest of the world, in case of Spanish websites and since our school community is formed by member who don't speak English too. So, all the information will be published in both languages, according to the places where I get the information. And, of course, we also need to know all the events happened in History in our country.
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May 8
1794
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, was guillotined during the Reign of Terror.
1877
The first Westminister Dog Show was held.
On May 8, 1886, a pharmacist named Dr. John Pemberton carried a jug of
1902
Mount Pelee on Martinique erupted, destroying the town of St. Pierre, and killing 40,000 people.
1945
V-E Day marks the European victory of the Allies in World War II. 1973
The 10-week Wounded Knee occupation ended when members of the American Indian Movement surrendered.
1978
David Berkowitz, a.k.a. the “Son of Sam,” plead guilty to killing six people in New York City.
1999
The Citadel in South Carolina graduated its first female cadet, Nancy Mace.
On this day in 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine.
The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms: In Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers, and the Germans considerably more; in Copenhagen and Oslo; at Karlshorst, near Berlin; in northern Latvia; on the Channel Island of Sark--the German surrender was realized in a final cease-fire. More surrender documents were signed in Berlin and in eastern Germany.
The main concern of many German soldiers was to elude the grasp of Soviet forces, to keep from being taken prisoner. About 1 million Germans attempted a mass exodus to the West when the fighting in Czechoslovakia ended, but were stopped by the Russians and taken captive. The Russians took approximately 2 million prisoners in the period just before and after the German surrender.
Meanwhile, more than 13,000 British POWs were released and sent back to Great Britain.
Pockets of German-Soviet confrontation would continue into the next day. On May 9, the Soviets would lose 600 more soldiers in Silesia before the Germans finally surrendered. Consequently, V-E Day was not celebrated until the ninth in Moscow, with a radio broadcast salute from Stalin himself: "The age-long struggle of the Slav nations...has ended in victory. Your courage has defeated the Nazis. The war is over."
1350.- Tratado de Bretigny, que pone fin al primer periodo de la llamada Guerra de los Cien Años, entre Francia e Inglaterra.
1627.- Sebastián Caboto descubre el río Paraná.
1702.- Holanda declara la guerra a España y a Francia por la sucesión a la corona española.
1797.- Muere en la guillotina el francés Francis Noel Babeuf, precursor del comunismo.
1880.- Fallece Gustave Flaubert, novelista francés.
1884.- Nace Harry S. Truman, presidente de Estados Unidos.
1906.- Nace Roberto Rossellini, cineasta italiano.
1916.- Primera Guerra Mundial: violentos ataques alemanes en ambas márgenes del Mosa.
1945.- Segunda Guerra Mundial: Firma en Berlín de la capitulación incondicional de Alemania.
1984.- La URSS encabeza el boicot a los Juegos Olímpicos de Los Angeles, seguida por trece países. Cuatro años antes, EEUU había hecho lo propio en los JJ.OO,. de Moscú, en protesta por la invasión de Afganistán.
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