HISTORIA
Un día como hoy Octubre 10-16 2021 (semana 41)
October 10, 2021 - October 16, 2021 - Los gráficos muestran cumpleaós y aniversarios en cada día de la semana. Esta semana incluye a la joven Malala Yousafzai y el arresto de Jiang Qing, la viuda de Mao,. También, la Casa Blanca, la hora de Greenwich, e queso feta greigo, el consumo de tabaco y la Bibliotheca Alexandrina en Egipto.
October 10, 2014: Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, shot by the Taliban for demanding education for girls, became the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
October 11, 1976: A month after Mao Zedong’s death China’s “Gang of Four”, led by Mao’s widow Jiang Qing, were arrested and charged with plotting a coup
October 12, 1901: The U.S. presidential residence was renamed the White House, a name in common use since the early 19th century, replacing its earlier title of Executive Mansion
October 13, 1884: Greenwich was established as the universal time meridian of longitude from which standard times throughout the world are calculated
October 14, 2002: The European Commission ruled only cheese made in Greece could be called feta, and that non Greek feta-style cheeses must be marketed under another name
October 15, 1492: Christopher Columbus noted in his journal that native Caribbean islanders habitually smoked dry leaves. It was the first recorded reference to tobacco
October 16, 2002: A new library in Egypt, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, was opened on the site of the fabled original destroyed by fire in the fourth century AD