HISTORIA
Un día como hoy Enero12-18, 2020 (semana 03)
January 12, 2020 - January 18, 2020 - Los gráficos muestran cumpleaños y aniversarios en cada día de la semana. Esta semana incluye: Boeing 747, el limpiaparabrisas, the Simpsons, el primer vuelo sin escalas entre China y Taiwán desde 1949, el coronel Muammar Gaddafi de Libia, el terremoto de Kobe y la creación de Ucrania.
January 12, 1970: The first Boeing 747 arrived at London’s Heathrow airport after its proving flight from New York. The first fare-paying flight to Heathrow followed on January 22
January 13, 1921: Brothers Fred and William Folberth invented the automatic windshield wiper in Cleveland, Ohio. The first mechanical wipers were developed in 1903
January 14, 1990: The Simpsons, America’s longest-running animated sitcom, made its TV debut. It features a dysfunctional family in the fictional town of Springfield
January 15, 2005: China and Taiwan agreed to permit direct flights throughout the Chinese New Year holidays, the first non-stop flights between China and Taiwan since 1949
January 16, 1970: Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council of Libya, also declared himself prime minister and defence minister
January 17, 1995: A 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Japan devastated the city of Kobe, killing 6,434 people and leaving 300,000 homeless. Damage was put at 10 trillion yen ($100bn)
January 18, 1654: Ukrainian Cossack leader Bohdan Khmelnytsky accepted the Muscovite Tsar as overlord, thus uniting the newly created state of Ukraine with Russia