HISTORIA
Un día como hoy Agosto22-28, 2021 (semana 34)
August 22, 2021 - August 28, 2021 - Los gráficos muestran cumpleaños y aniversarios en cada día de la semana. Esta semana incluye Cadillac Motor Company, Bayern Munich, elefantes africanos, polio, el puente Yavuz Sultan Selim, el artista Tiziano y Black Panther.
August 22, 1901: The Cadillac Motor Company, America’s first luxury carmaker, was founded in Detroit. It was names after the French explorer who founded the city in 1701
August 23, 2020: Bayern Munich won the UEFA Champions League final for a sixth time, and became the first team to win every game in a single Champions League campaign
August 24, 2001: Researchers in Kenya revealed that Africa’s forest and savanna elephants are two different species, raising to three the number of living elephant species
August 25, 2020: Wild polio was eliminated in Africa, with Nigeria the last African country declared free from the disease. It is now found only in Afghanistan and Pakistan
August 26, 2016: The Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, the world’s tallest suspension bridge, was opened to traffic in Istanbul. It is the city’s third bridge across the Bosphorus
August 27, 1576: Venetian Renaissance master Titian, whose handling of colour and mastery of new oil techniques made him one of the greatest painters of the period, died
August 28, 2020: Chadwick Boseman, U.S. actor best known as Black Panther in the Marvel superhero franchise, died at age 43 after a four-year battle with colon cancer