Un día como hoy Septiembre 8-14, 2019 (semana 37) infographic
Los gráficos muestran cumpleaños y aniversarios en cada día de la semana.
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Un día como hoy Septiembre 8-14, 2019 (semana 37)

By Julie Mullins

September 8, 2019 - September 14, 2019 - Los gráficos muestran cumpleaños y aniversarios en cada día de la semana. Esta semana incluye la rendición de Nueva Amsterdam, la boda del príncipe heredero de Brunei, la apertura de Hungría a Occidente, la estrella del tenis Serena Williams, la Burj Khalifa de Dubái, la transmisión de la fiebre amarilla y la vida del actor Patrick Swayze.

September 8, 1664: Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch governor of New Amsterdam, surrendered to the British without a shot being fired. The settlement was later renamed New York

September 9, 2004: The Crown Prince of Brunei, Al-Muhtadee Billah Bolkiah, married 17-year-old student Sarah Salleh in an opulent ceremony in Bandar Seri Bagwan

September 10, 1989: Hungary opened its border to the West, prompting a mass exodus of East German refugees which led eventually to the toppling of the Berlin Wall

September 11, 1999: Tennis star Serena Williams won the U.S. Open tournament at Flushing Meadows, achieving a first Grand Slam victory ahead of her elder sister Venus

September 12, 2007: The future Burj Khalifa, under construction in Dubai, reached 555.3m, surpassing Toronto’s CN Tower as the world’s tallest free-standing structure on land

September 13, 1990: A physician investigating the transmission of yellow fever was bitten by a mosquito and died of the disease, thus proving that the mosquito was the carrier

September 14, 2009: Actor Patrick Swayze died from cancer at age 57. He leapt to fame in the hit 1987 film Dirty Dancing and scored another major success with the 1990 weepie, Ghost

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PUBLISHED: 03/09/2019; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Newscom, Getty, Associated Press
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