HISTORÍA
Un día como hoy Diciembre 30-Enero 5, 2019
December 30, 2018 - January 5, 2019 - Los gráficos muestran cumpleaños y aniversarios en cada día de la semana. Esta semana incluye la formación de la URSS, el alcoholímetro, el lanzamiento del euro, la sonda espacial Luna I, Bitcoins, suspensión del Índice Shanghai Composite Index, la primera referencia a la hamburguesa en un medio impreso.
December 30, 1922: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established through the confederation of Russia, Byelorussia, Ukraine and the Transcaucasian Federation
December 31, 1938: The “Drunkometer”, the first successful machine to test blood alcohol content in car drivers by analysing their breath, was introduced in the United States
January 1, 1999: The introduction of the euro meant that nearly 300 million Europeans in 12 nations woke up to a shared currency for the first time since the Roman Empire
January 2, 1959: The Soviet Union launched the unmanned Luna I, the first lunar space shot, which passed within 5,900km of the moon before moving on to orbit the sun
January 3, 2009: Bitcoin came into existence after Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first ever block in the chain of the decentralized payment system. It was known as the Genesis block
January 4, 2016: Trading on China’s $7.1 trillion Shanghai Composite index was suspended after it fell by 7%, triggering a new circuit breaker system created to curb volatility
January 5, 1889: The word “hamburger” was first used in print in a U.S. newspaper. It was derived from a form of pounded beef introduced by German immigrants