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Un día como hoy Julio 5-11, 2020 (semana 28) infographic
Los gráficos muestran cumpleaños y aniversarios en cada día de la semana.
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Un día como hoy Julio 5-11, 2020 (semana 28)

July 5, 2020 - July 11, 2020 - Los gráficos muestran cumpleaños y aniversarios en cada día de la semana. Esta semana incluye el bikini, el dólar estadounidense, el músico músico Ringo Starr, las ambiciones nucleares de Irán, el barco Rainbow Warrior II de Greenpeace, Bashar al-Assad de Siria y el almirante Zheng Hey de la Dinastía Ming de China.

July 5, 1946: The bikini, designed by former Renault engineer Louis Reard and named after the Pacific atoll where atom bombs were then being tested, was first modelled in Paris

July 6, 1785: The dollar was unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States. It was not until 1794 that the first dollars appeared in circulation

July 7, 1940: Ringo Starr, English musician and actor who gained global fame as the drummer for the Beatles, was born in Liverpool as Richard Starkey. He turns 80 today

July 8, 2019: Iran began enriching uranium beyond the limit set in the 2015 nuclear deal to pressure the European signatories to save the accord after the U.S. withdrawal

July 9, 1995: French navy commandos seized the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior II, which was protesting against French nuclear testing around Mururoa Atoll

July 10, 2000: Bashar al-Assad succeeded his late father as President of Syria. Initially seen as favouring reform, his mass crackdowns on the Arab Spring protesters led to civil war

July 11, 1405: China’s Ming Dynasty admiral Zheng He set sail on the first of seven far-reaching voyages that encompassed the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans

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PUBLISHED: 07/07/2020; DESIGN: Phil Bainbridge; PICTURE RESEARCH: Julie Mullins; EVENT SELECTION: Fiona Roberts and Susan Shepherd; PROOFING: Julie Mullins; TECHNICAL CONSTRUCTION: Fiona Roberts;STORY: Julie Mullins; PICTURES: Newscom, Getty, Associated Press
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