HISTORIA
Un día como hoy Marzo 8-14, 2020 (semana 11)
March 8, 2020 - March 14, 2020 - Los gráficos muestran cumpleaños y aniversarios en cada día de la semana. Esta semana incluye el helicóptero Bell, el uso de napalm en Vietnam, los anillos de Urano, la invención del papel, la diarista Ana Frank, la suspensión de vuelos del Boeing 737 Max y el presidente de China, Xi Jingping.
March 8, 1946: The Bell Model 47 helicopter, developed by inventor Arthur Young, was awarded the world’s first commercial helicopter license for civilian use
March 9, 1965: U.S. President Lyndon Johnson authorized the use in Vietnam of napalm, a petroleum-based anti-personnel bomb that sticks to skin and causes severe burns
March 10, 1977: The rings of Uranus were discovered when dips in the brightness of a star were spotted before and after the body of the planet passed in front of it
March 11, 105: Chinese court official Ts’ai Lun is credited with inventing paper, made from pressed and dried layers of tree bark, remnants of hemp, cloth rags and fishing nets
March 12, 1945: Jewish diarist Anne Frank, aged 15, died in the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen, just one month before it was liberated by British troops
March 13, 2019: The Boeing 737 MAX passenger airliner was grounded worldwide after two crashes of the aircraft within five months killed all 346 people onboard both flights
March 14, 2013: Xi Jingping formally became President of China, completing the transition of power and putting Xi in charge of all three centres of power in the country
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