HISTORIA
Un díia como hoy Mayo 29 - Junio 4, 2022 (semana 22)
May 29, 2022 - June 4, 2022 - Los gráficos muestran cumpleaños y aniversarios en cada día de la semana. Esta semana incluye el matrimonio del primer ministro británico Boris Johnson, el Monumento a Lincoln, el cambio de la política de dos hijos en China, el Reloj del Apocalipsis, el primer hallazgo de petróleo en Bahréin, los viajes de exploración del capitán James Cook y la Batalla de Midway
May 29, 2021: Boris Johnson married political activist Carrie Symonds in a small private ceremony, becoming the first British prime minister to marry in office since 1822
May 30, 1922: The Lincoln Memorial, built to honour the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, was dedicated on the National Mall in Washington DC
May 31, 2021: China replaced its existing two-child policy to allow couples to have three children, in order to increase declining birth rates and maintain a stable population
June 1, 1947: The Doomsday Clock, intended to show how close humanity was to catastrophic destruction, first appeared on the cover of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
June 2, 1932: Major Frank Holmes, a New Zealand engineer, first struck oil in Bahrain. It marked the emergence of the petroleum industry in the Middle East
June 3, 1769: A year into his circumnavigation of the world, Captain James Cook observed the Transit of Venus across the sun, the main purpose of his voyage of exploration
June 4, 1942: The Battle of Midway, the turning point in the sea war in the Pacific, began. U.S. forces inflicted Japan’s first major naval defeat of World War II in the three-day battle